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Defense Mechanisms
Mental Health
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Avoidence: | avoid people, situation that causes stress |
| Compensation | focus on strengths not weaknesses |
| Conversion | development of physical symptoms |
| Denial | Refuse to accept reality |
| Displacement | Transfer feelings from one to another |
| Disassociation | Disconnects from reality |
| Identification | Adopts beliefs and behaviors of another person |
| Intellectualization | avoids emotions and focuses on the facts |
| Projection | attributes own thoughts and feelings onto someone else |
| Rationalization | Justifies wrong behavior |
| Reaction formation | Expresses opposite from what is felt |
| Regression | Reverts to an earlier developmental level in response to stress |
| Repression | Involuntary blocking of feelings that you dont realize youre doing |
| Sublimation | Impulses to socially acceptable behaviors. example: punching bag |
| Suppression | Voluntary blocking |
| Undoing | Attempts to cancel out unacceptable behavior or thoughts |
| Suppression example | I forgot we were suppose to get our CPR re-certified |
| Undoing example | A professor criticizes his colleagues recent publications but compliments him on his choice of statistical procedures |
| Sublimation example | A young man with intense aggressive and competitive drives becomes a star of the football team |
| Reaction formation example | The recovered alcoholic living one day at a time takes advantage of every opportunity to get on his soap box to extol the evils of alcohol |
| Projection example | The psychotic client yells at the nurse im not crazy you are |
| Displacement example | The client is upset at the doctor for making him stay in the hospital another day. When the nurse enters the room, he yells at the nurse. |
| Repression example | A woman who was raped is unable to recall the assault |
| Rationalization example | A student is late handing in an assignment. She states the reason she is late is because an unexpected visitor kept her from going to library. |
| Denial example: | The doctor tells mr smith that he has cancer. mr smith responds i dont have cancer. the tests are wrong. |
| Intellectualization example | When asked feelings about her first clinical day the student discusses at length the use of defense mechanisms and stages of development |
| Compensation example | jill was musically inclined but wasnt very good at sports therfore she spent hours practicing on the piano |
| Identification example | mary and tina work together. tina tells mary you act just like our first clinical instructor |
| Introjection example | A little girl scolds her doll, just like her mother scolds her |
| Regression example | A 28 year old client sits in the corner rocking sucking her thumb |
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Kristi.bohannon2
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