Psychiatric Nursing (Ego Defense Mech and Thera Comm)

Question 1

Woman who never wanted to have children becomes a super-mom

Answer 1

REACTION FORMATION

Question 2

Person who despises the boss tells
everyone what a great boss she is.

Answer 2

REACTION FORMATION

Question 3

Man pouts like a four-year-old if he is not
the center of his girlfriend’s attention.

Answer 3

REGRESSION

Question 4

Unconscious forgetting

Answer 4

REPRESSION

Question 5

Five-year-old asks fora bottle when new baby brother is being fed

Answer 5

REGRESSION

Question 6

Woman has no memoryof themugging she suffered yesterday

Answer 6

REPRESSION

Question 7

Excusing own behaviorto avoid responsibility, conflict, anxiety, or loss of self-respect

Answer 7

RATIONALIZATION

Question 8

Student blames failure on teacher being mean

Answer 8

RATIONALIZATION

Question 9

Man says he beats his wife because she does not listen to him.

Answer 9

RATIONALIZATION

Question 10

Woman has no memorybefore age 7 when
she was removed from abusive parents.

Answer 10

REPRESSION

Question 11

Excluding emotionally painful or anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings

Answer 11

SUPRESSION and REPRESSION

Question 12

Conscious forgetting

Answer 12

SUPRESSION

Question 13

Ventilation of intense feelings toward persons less threatening than the one who aroused those feelings.

Answer 13

DISPLACEMENT

Question 14

Woman has tried to forget her memoryof the financial problems she had in the past.

Answer 14

SUPRESSION

Question 15

A person who is mad at the boss yells at his or her spouse

Answer 15

DISPLACEMENT

Question 16

Expression of an emotional conflict through the development of a physical symptom usually sensorimotor in nature

Answer 16

CONVERSION

Question 16

Over achievement in one area to offset real or perceived deficiencies in another area

Answer 16

COMPENSATION

Question 17

Napoleon complex: Diminutive man becoming an emperor

Answer 17

COMPENSATION

Question 18

Nurse with low self-esteem works double shifts so
her supervisor will like her

Answer 18

COMPENSATION

Question 19

A teenager forbidden to see x-rated movies is tempted to do so by friends and develops blindness, and the
teenager is unconcerned about the loss of sight

Answer 19

CONVERSION

Question 20

Failure to acknowledge an unbearable condition; failure to admit the reality of a situation, or how one enables the
problem to continue

Answer 20

DENIAL

Question 21

Diabetic eating chocolate candy; spending money freely when broke; Waiting 3 days to seek help for severe
abdominal pain

Answer 21

DENIAL

Question 22

THERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES

Question 23

“Yes”;”I follow what you said”; Nodding

Answer 23

ACCEPTING

Question 24

“Is there something you’dlike to talk about?”;’Where would you like me to begin?”

Answer 24

Broad Openings

Question 25

‘Was it something like?”; “Have you had similar experiences?”

Answer 25

ENCOURAGING COMPARISON

Question 25

“Tell me whether my understanding of it agrees with yours.”; “Are you using this word to convey that?”

Answer 25

CONSENTUAL VALIDATION

Question 26

“Tell me when you feel anxious”; “What is happening?”; “What does the voice seem to be saying?”

Answer 26

ENCOURAGING DESCRIPTION OF PERCEPTIONS

Question 27

‘Whatare your feelings in regard to?”

Answer 27

ENCOURAGING EXPRESSION

Question 28

“Tell me more about that.”; ‘Would you describe it more fully’?”; ‘What kind of work?”

Answer 28

EXPLORING

Question 29

“Of all the concerns you have mentioned, Which is most troublesome?”

Answer 29

FOCUSING

Question 30

‘What could you do to let your anger out harmlessly?”; “Next time this comes up, what might you do to handle it?”

Answer 30

FORMULATING A PLAN OF ACTION

Question 31

“Goon.”;”And then?”;”Tell me about it.”

Answer 31

GENERAL LEADS