Mental Exam Flashcards
Defense Mechanism:
Making up for an act
Ex: exercising after eating junk food
Undoing
Defense Mechanism:
Justifying an action by an acceptable explanation
Ex: I did it because everyone is doing it.
Rationalization
Defense Mechanism:
Reverting to an earlier stage in life
Regression
Defense Mechanism:
Escaping unpleasant thoughts, feelings, experiences, and ignoring their existence
Denial
Defense Mechanism:
“You’re cheating on me!” (When I’m the one cheating in actuality)
Projection
Defense Mechanism:
Medical condition with no specific cause
Somatization
Defense Mechanism:
Saying what you mean
Altruism
Defense Mechanism:
Unacceptable feelings are hidden and you do/say the opposite
Ex: hates the kid but says “you’re so cute!”
Reaction Formation
Defense Mechanism:
Unconscious exclusion of unpleasant emotions/experiences
Ex: Man fights w/ wife….forgets her birthday
Repression
Defense Mechanism:
Transference of emotions from one person onto another
Ex: boss yells at you and you take it out on your child
Displacement
Defense Mechanism:
Consciously putting worry aside to focus on something else
Ex: study for boards, neglect paying rent
Suppression
Defense Mechanism:
Substituting acceptable activity for unacceptable impulses
Sublimation
Defense Mechanism:
Take on characteristics of others to cope
Ex: child threatened in school, takes on strong defender character of father
Introjection
Defense Mechanism:
Attributing oneself the character is ice of another person/group
Ex: child dresses up and pretending to be a doctor w/ a stuff animal
Identification
Defense Mechanism:
Being a coach instead of a basketball player
Compensations
Body dystrophin disorder
Women who sees themselves as fat when they are completely fine
Hoarder
Can’t get rid of items
Trichotillomania
Pulling out hair
Dermotillomania
Picks/pulls out skin
Types of obsessive-compulsive disorders
1) body dystrophic
2) hoarder
3) trichotillomania
4) dermotillomania
Peplau’s levels of anxiety
Mild, moderate, severe, panic
Anxiety disorder in which the person fears being in places places or situations from which escape might become difficult or embarrassing.
Agoraphobia
Anxiety disorder in which the person excessively worries
Generalized
A persistent irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a desire for avoidance of the object, activity, or situation
Ex: spiders, dogs, heights, etc.
Specific phobia
Type of anxiety disorder in which the person fears a situation where others can judge them negatively
Social
Trichotillomania
Pulling out hair
Dermotillomania
Pick/pulling of the skin
Hans Selye’s General Adaptation System (GAS)
Alarm
Resistance or adaptation
Exhaustion
A negative draining energy that results in anxiety, depression, confusion, etc.
Ex: death in the family
Distress
A positive energy that motivates and results in feeling of happiness, hopefulness, and purposeful movement.
Ex: birth of new baby, plying favorite sport, vacationing, etc.
Eustress
