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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Erickson in the 20th century insists on addressing the _______ and asserts the right to include other individuals who are part of the trouble.
(a) Actual problem.
(b) History of the patient.
(c) Childhood difficulties.
(d) Patient's dream life.

2. One case in Chapter 6 was about how the therapist helped a mother to re-establish her authority with her son. How old was the child?
(a) Six.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Eight.
(d) Sixteen.

3. The therapists of the 19th-century noticed that there was something deeper going on; here Mesmer and ____ are used as examples
(a) Jackson.
(b) Jung.
(c) Freud.
(d) Erickson.

4. One example in Chapter 8 is a case where a teenager is _______ because she relates the fact that her mother has been having an affair with a local wealthy man.
(a) Heartbroken.
(b) Institutionalized.
(c) Sent to boarding school.
(d) Sent to live with her grandparents.

5. The first example Haley gives in Chapter 9 involves a man with an intense fear of what?
(a) Women.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Heights.
(d) Elevators.

6. In the case of the child with the sore, Erickson took personal responsibility to mimic addressing what that should have been covered by the parents?
(a) His fear of abandonment.
(b) His fears of neglect.
(c) His sexuality.
(d) An educational concern.

7. Erickson claims that when a husband and wife where _____ of each other, it was best to see them together.
(a) Neglectful.
(b) Insecure.
(c) Suspicious.
(d) Loving.

8. For those who glorify ______, older years may have a more difficult psychological impact.
(a) Early family life.
(b) Childhood.
(c) Babies.
(d) Youth culture.

9. In cases where only the wife comes in, the husband has often implied that the therapist is having some kind of relationship with his wife, therefore _____ the relationship.
(a) Emasculating.
(b) Complicating.
(c) Irritating.
(d) Triangulating.

10. The dynamic between the parents of the child with the sore was affected because they paid attention to ______ in relation to the chores in a different way.
(a) One another.
(b) The therapist.
(c) The other children.
(d) The child.

11. Erickson accepted a client, a young woman who was living with her parents at an age when many other people's children had left home. She had been in a car accident and after recovering had undergone months of what?
(a) Extensive therapy.
(b) Hypnotists.
(c) Physical therapy.
(d) Surgery.

12. Perhaps one case from Chapter 6 did not want to be a mother but had no recourse other than to plead a kind of insanity so that the others would take control from her, or she possibly was mentally ill. What was she labeled with?
(a) Epilepsy.
(b) Bipolar disorder.
(c) Borderline personality disorder.
(d) Schizophrenia.

13. Knowledge of Erickson's inaccurate perceptions of the husband has been intentionally sent home through whom/what?
(a) The wife.
(b) The therapist.
(c) The children.
(d) The booklets.

14. The parents in one example in Chapter 8 were so competitive, that one of the parents had spent a week in the same town where the daughter lived for the sole purpose of helping the daughter do what?
(a) Call home.
(b) Do her homework.
(c) Get to therapy.
(d) Do laundry.

15. Solving problems associated with alcohol, prescription tranquilizer, and illegal drug use are all included in what chapter?
(a) Chapter 9.
(b) Chapter 7.
(c) Chapter 6.
(d) Chapter 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. The therapist's intent is to be what to the marriage and to each of the partners in it?

2. Who is the patient Mesmer took in Chapter 8?

3. Haley notes in Chapter 8 that people may or may not recognize that they need to be _______ their own children.

4. What did Erickson accuse the man with the headache of harboring in the end of Chapter 7?

5. Haley begins Chapter 8 by explaining that the way therapy is conducted has progressed in a leap and that ____ signifies the change from recognizing that problems within a family are just that.

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