Coping Mechanisms

Question 1

Denial

Answer 1

“Not Happening to Me”

Question 2

Acting Out

Answer 2

transforming feelings into reactions

Ex: Hate that nurse, so spits on them

Question 3

Identification

Answer 3

patterning behavior after someone else’s

They latch onto someone going through something similar

Question 4

Intellectualization

Answer 4

explaining away the unreasonable in form of logic

Ex: “I guess I realize birth control could fail, so I could be pregnant.”

Question 5

Reaction Formation

Answer 5

setting aside unconsious feelings and express the exact opposite – ex. Showing extra acceptance when the opposite is true

They turn the negative into the positive

Question 6

Sublimation

Answer 6

taking instinctual drives and funneling that energy into a socially acceptable action

Ex: Focusing on daughter’s wedding instead of their death
OR Preparing for death by putting all efforts into getting will put together

Question 7

Regression

Answer 7

resorting to child-like behavior