Defense Mechanisms
Dealing with own emotions by reaching out to others: feeling lonely, goes and spends time at an old folks home with lonely elderly
Altruism
Person who is mad at the boss yells at his or her spouse.
Displacement: Ventilation of intense feelings toward a person less threatening than the person who made the person feel this way.
The person experiences excessive fear or anxiety when separated from an individual to which the client is emotionally attached.
Separation Anxiety
The client has intrusive thoughts of unrealistic obsessions and tries to control these thought with compulsive behaviors: washing hands x amount of times before leaving house
OCD
A turning point in ones life that produces an overwhelming emotional response. They experience a ------ when they confront some life circumstances or stressor they cannot effectively manage through their normal coping skills.
Crisis
Person who quit smoking sucks on a hard candy when tempted to smoke. OR A person who has feelings of anger towards a boss works out the anger at lunch time at the gym
Sublimation: substituting unacceptable things with acceptable things
Person who cheats on a spouse brings the spouse a bouquet of flowers.
Undoing: Showing good behavior to make up for the unacceptable behavior.
The person experiences an irrational fear of a certain object or situation.
Specific Phobias:
Acrophobia: fear of heights
Arachnophobia: fear of spiders
Claustrophobia: fear of small places
Agoraphobia: Fear of being vulnerable EXAMPLE: fear of being outside BECAUSE they feel vulnerable.
The person has a hard time parting with possessions resulting in extreme stress and functional impairments.
Hoarding
Predictable events in thermal course of life such as : leaving home for the first time, getting married, having a baby, starting a career
Maturational crises
A student puts off thinking about parents illness to study for a test. OR A person who has lost their job states they will worry about bills later.
Suppression: VOLUNTARILY denying unpleasant thoughts and feelings
Denial: failure to acknowledge an unbearable situation or condition.
Excessive fear of social or performance situations
Social Anxiety
the person has a preoccupation with perceived flaws or defects in physical appearance
body dysmorphic
unanticipated or sudden events that threaten the persons integrity: death of a loved one, loss of job, physical or emotional illness in self or family member
Situational Crises
A woman has no memory of the mugging that she suffered from yesterday. OR A woman doesn't have any memory before age 7 when she got taken away from abusive parents.
Repression: UNCONCIOUSLY putting unacceptable ideas, thoughts, and emotions out of awareness.
Student blames failure on teacher being mean. OR. Man says he beats wife because she does not listen to him.
Rationalization: excusing own behavior to avoid guilt, responsibility, anxiety, or loss of self respect.
experiences recurrent panic attacks
panic disorder
Help achieve goals in acceptable ways, reduce anxiety. A way to cope with emotions:
Adaptive
natural disasters like floods, earthquakes or hurricanes, war, rape, murder
adventitious crises
A person who had a disagreement with a coworker begins throwing things at their office.
Regression: Sudden use of childlike behaviors that do not correlate with the persons current age/developmental.
A marries client who is attracted to another person accuses their spouse of having an affair.
Projection: attributing ones unacceptable thoughts and feelings onto another who does not have them.
GAD: general anxiety disorder
A way of coping that hinders function, relationships, not a good way
Maladaptive
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