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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In one example in Chapter 8, a girl's _______ needed improvement, and she needed to lose a lot of weight.
(a) Family life.
(b) Sense of style.
(c) Social life.
(d) Body image.

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

3. Erickson keyed into the young woman from the car accident's problems when after much probing, he learned that an elder sister had left home, married against the parents' wishes and was now ______.
(a) Suicidal.
(b) Going to have a baby.
(c) In rehab.
(d) Hospitalized.

4. The 19th-century method was to treat a patient in what way?
(a) By hypnosis.
(b) With the family.
(c) Within the hospital.
(d) On an individual basis.

5. 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) Schizophrenia.
(c) Borderline personality disorder.
(d) Bipolar disorder.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Erickson's case in Chapter 6 which involved the boy's bed-wetting problem, Erickson suggested that if he didn't wet the bed for a month his parents were obligated to get him what?

2. What occurrence either forces or allows other relatives, be it the father or extended family, a great chance to take care of the baby?

3. Haley observes that there are repercussions throughout the family system (meaning people of the families that led up to this union are affected by the turn of events) when what occurs?

4. The case study in Chapter 8 involving the girl with body issues follows the therapist's instructions to for the daughter to insist upon ______ from the mother as the condition for the presence.

5. The therapists of the 19th-century noticed that there was something deeper going on; here Mesmer and ____ are used as examples

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Erickson work to help an elderly man walk in Chapter 9?

2. Describe the case of the 8-year-old terror, which is provided in Chapter 6.

3. How do Erickson's techniques vary with different clients?

4. What is Erickson's approach to the family "as a group"?

5. With the daughter who is in the accident and whose parents are obsessive, what does Erickson discover?

6. What does Haley write of dominance in marriage?

7. What is one of the more controversial aspects of Erickson's hypnosis?

8. How does Haley describe Erickson asserting his masculinity as a doctor in Chapter 7?

9. What does Haley write regarding post-partum depression in Chapter 6?

10. What does Erickson focus on with new mothers facing post-partum depression?

(see the answer keys)

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