CH 4: Stress and Defense Mechanisms Flashcards
altruism
Defense Mechanisms
reaching out to others
sublimation
Defense Mechanisms
substituting acceptable forms of expression
suppression
Defense Mechanisms
consciously denying thoughts and feelings
repression
Defense Mechanisms
unconsciously putting unacceptable ideas, thoughts, and emotions out of awareness
regression
Defense Mechanisms
childlike or primitive
displacement
Defense Mechanisms
shifting feelings related to something onto another less threatening something
reaction formation
Defense Mechanisms
out of awareness by overcompensating or demonstrating
undoing
Defense Mechanisms
making up
rationalization
Defense Mechanisms
reasonable for unacceptable behavior
dossociation
diruptions that results in compartmentalization of aspects of oneself
denial
Defense Mechanisms
pretending truth is not reality
compensation
Defense Mechanisms
emphasizing strengths
identification
assumption of charateristics of others
intellectualization
Defense Mechanisms
separation of emotions and logical facts
conversion
Defense Mechanisms
development of physical manifestations
splitting
Defense Mechanisms
inability to reconcile negative and positive attributs of self/others into a cohesive image
projection
Defense Mechanisms
attributing one’s acceptable thoughts/feelings onto another who does not have them
acute anxiety
(immediate state)
precipitated by imminent loss/change that threatens security
chronic anxiety
(sustained trait)
develops over time
- might display fatigue, frequent headaches
mild anxiety
- part of everyday
- increases ability to perceive reality
- has identifiable cause
mild discomfort, restlessness, irritability, impatience, apprehension
moderate anxiety
- reduced perception and processing
- selective inattention
- thinking is hampered (learning/ problem-solving occurs)
- benefits from direction of others
difficulty concentration, tired, pacing, vioce changes, high HR, RR
severe anxiety
- perceptual field greatly reduced and distorted
- learning and problem solving do not occur
- behaviors automatic; functioning effective
confusion, impending doom, hyperventilation, tachycardia, loud/rapid
panic-level anxiety
- disturbed behavior
- not able to process
- lose reality
fright/terror, immobility, hyperactivity, dilationg, delusions, hallucin
interventions of mild-moderate
- active listening
- calm, recognize distress
- eval coping
- explore alt
- paticipation
interventions of severe-panic
- environment for safety and physical needs
- quiet
- meds/restrain
- gross motor activities
- limits; firm, short, simple statements
- focus on reality and present
