Theoretical Models, Therapies, and Nursing Theories Flashcards
Mental processes out of awareness but easily recalled.
Preconscious
Mental processes that are within awareness.
Conscious
Mental processes that are inaccessible but influence behavior and feelings.
Unconscious
Pleasure principle, locus of biological drives/instincts, unconscious.
Id
Reality principle, mediates between Id and Superego.
Ego
Perfection principle, forms conscience by holding social values and more.
Superego
Force or impetus to fulfill basic biologic needs; includes libido and aggression; instinctive and unconscious.
Drive
Strong feelings of worry and dread.
Anxiety
Adaptive and maladaptive behaviors of sleeping, smoking, cursing, fidgeting, drinking, laughing, talking, eating, crying, pacing, nail-biting, daydreaming, exercise, seeking answers.
Relief behaviors for stress/anxiety
Unconscious processes to decrease anxiety; include compensation, denial, displacement, identification, intellectualization, introjection, isolation, projection, rationalization, regression, sublimation, suppression, undoing.
Defense mechanisms
To offer interference with exploring unconscious mental processes.
Resistance
Therapies with an emphasis on past, focus on expression of emotions, identification of patterns and ways to change, working with resistance, considering intrapsychic issues such as dreams and fantasies, emphasis on transference and working alliance. Conflicts from past continue to influence present; goal is to develop alternatives to patterns of managing anxiety.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy
Overachievement in one area to compensate for failure in another area.
Compensation
Refusal to accept reality or facts.
Denial
Satisfying an impulse or relieving anxiety with a substitute object/person. Ex. yelling at coworker after getting yelled at by boss.
Displacement
Minimizing threatening individuals or behaviors by emulating aspects of their behavior, possibly adopting their mannerisms, repeating phrases or language patterns and mirroring character traits.
Identification
Standing back from stressor and evaluating from neutral view.
Intellectualization
Adopting environmental stimuli as own ideas or beliefs (i.e. religion, politics). May also be replicating observed behaviors (sibling-to-sibling, parent-to-child).
Introjection
Separating ideas or feelings from other thoughts (compartmentalizing).
Isolation
Transferring ideas, fears, anxieties onto others. Ex. person afraid of crossing a bridge might accuse friend of a fear of heights in effort to avoid stressor without owning insecurity.
Projection
Explanations or excuses for behavior; minimizing consequences/impact of behavior.
Rationalization
Reverting to behaviors from earlier age/time.
Regression
Transference of negative/destructive anxiety into positive energy/socially-acceptable behaviors. Ex. releasing aggression through organized sports.
Sublimation
Conscious attempt to redirect thinking away from negative or stressful thoughts to other thoughts/feelings. Ex. suppression of feelings/thoughts of attraction toward friend’s spouse.
Suppression