University:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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BIOS 101 | General Biology
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2023
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341

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3
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Kasey Barber

Defense Mechanism Class Activity Match the Defense Mechanism with the appropriate definition and example. Defense Mechanism denial displacement Projection Definition Example Refusing to acknowledge some painful aspect of external reality or subjective experience that would be apparent to others (psychotic denial used when there is gross impairment in reality testing.) A teenager’s best friend moves away, but the adolescent says he does not feel sad. Refusing to acknowledge the existence of a real situation or the feelings associated with it. Transferring a feeling about, or a response to, one object onto another (usually less threatening), substitute object. A woman drinks alcohol every day and cannot stop, failing to acknowledge that he has a problem. A child is mad at her mother for leaving for the day but says she is really mad at the sitter for serving her food she does not like. A client is angry at his doctor, does not express it, but becomes verbally abusive with the nurse. Falsely attributing to another one’s own unacceptable feelings, impulses or thoughts. A child is very angry at a parent but accuses the parent of being angry. Concealing the true A man is rejected by his rationalization repression Splitting Undoing motivations for one’s own thoughts, actions, or feelings through the elaborations of reassuring or self-serving but incorrect explanations. girlfriend but explains to his friends that her leaving was best because beneath him socially and would not be liked by his family. Attempting to make excuses or formulate logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors. Expelling disturbing wishes, thoughts, or experiences from conscious awareness (the feeling component may remain conscious, detached from its associated ideas). A client tells the rehab nurse, “I drink because it’s the only way I can deal with my bad marriage and my worse job.” A woman does not remember the experience of being raped in the basement bud does feel anxious when going into that house. Involuntarily blocking unpleasant feelings and experiences from one’s awareness. Compartmentalizing opposite affect states and failing to integrate the positive and negative qualities of the self or others into cohesive images. An accident victim can remember nothing about the accident. Words or behavior designed to negate or to make amends symbolically for unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or actions. Responding to stress by retreating to an earlier level Self and object images tend to alternate between polar opposites: exclusively loving, powerful, worthy, nurturing, and kind or exclusively bad, hateful, angry, destructive, rejecting or worthless. One friend id wonderful and another former friend who was at one time viewed as being perfect, is now believed to be an evil person. A man has sexual fantasies about his wife’s sister. He takes his wife away for a romantic weekend. A husband is nervous about his new job and yells at his wife. On his way home, he stops to buy her some flowers. When a 2-year-old client is hospitalized for tonsillitis, he Regression of development and the comfort measures associated with that level of functioning. will drink only from a bottle, although his mother states he has been drinking from a cup for 6 months.

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