Crisis Intervention and Defense Mechanisms

Question 1

Normal stress during the course of life. Marriage, child birth, retirement

Answer 1

Maturational Crisis

Question 2

Precipitated by a sudden traumatic event that is unexpected. Death of a loved one, loss of job, illness

Answer 2

Situational Crisis

Question 3

A brief treatment initiated when an individual is in crisis to help restore ones pre-crisis biopsychosocial functioning

Answer 3

Crisi Intervention

Question 4

Defense process by which plausible reasons justify an action or opinion. Blaming external circumstances “Ill be better off at a different company”

Answer 4

Rationalization

Question 5

Refusing to let unacceptable impulses into conscious awareness. Forgetting why you are afraid of something.

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Repression

Question 6

Distorts/refuses to accepts reality. Acting like something didnt happen

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Denial

Question 7

Placing unacceptable feelings from the persons feeling them onto another person. Person A has a feeling abut person B and instead of expressing that feeling, they accuse person be of feeling that way instead.

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Projection

Question 8

affect is transferred from one object to another. Person a has a feeling about person b. Instead of telling them they take it out of person c

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Displacement

Question 9

Taking a projection a step further, with the person who has been projected onto believing the projection

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Projective identification

Question 10

the process by which content is separated from repressed affect. might research factual criteria instead of addressing emotional pain in therapy

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Intellectualization

Question 11

Characterized by rigor and self denial. ex. Refusing to eat or sleep until a major project is complete

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Asceticim

Question 12

Displacing unacceptable instincts for constructive and socially acceptable behaviors. Ex. a person with aggressive impulses becoming a kickboxing instructor

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Sublimation

Question 13

internalizing outside events or characteristics of other people. a victim may use this to identify with he aggressors behaviors to help protect themselves.

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Introjection

Question 14

Qualities of an external object are absorbed into ones personality.

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Identification

Question 15

Process by which unacceptable impulses are expressed as their opposites

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Reaction Formation

Question 16

avoiding being punished for undesirable thoughts or actions by engaging in a contrary behavior. Ex. being overly nice to a person they have just insulted in their mind.

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Undoing