_ SPECIFIC DEFENSE/COPING MECHANISM Coping mechanisms are done consciously COMPENSATION a conscious or unconscious attempt ‘Yo balance a real or imagined deficiency in one area by developing other personal qualities to hide weakness. [ON isthe intentional exclusion of thoughts Trait consciousness. It is the conscious form of repression. JON>Is a unconscious and involuntary forgetting of unacceptable ideas or impulses into the unconscious. The earliest type of defense available the basis ofall defense mechanisms REGRESSION it is the backward turning to an earlier patterns of behavior to solve personal conflict. CONVERSION, transforming an emotional problem into a physical symptom or outlet. An unconscious device. Not the same as malingering. DENIAL, the unconscious disapproval of thoughts, feelings, wishes, needs which are consciously unacceptable. Closely related to rationalization. Not the same as lying which is conscious. It protects the person from finding out that he may be wrong. RATIONALIZATION isan attempt to make unacceptable feelings and behavior consciously tolerable and acceptable. Helps to avoid social disapproval and to bolster flagging self-esteem; to “save face” INTELECTUALIZATION is the overuse-of-jntellectual concepts and words etfective experience or expression of feelings. FIXATION, the arrest of maturation at an earlier level of psychosexual development. IDENTIFICATION is the unconscious, wishful adoption (internalization) of the personality characteristics or identify of another individual generally one possessing attributes which the subject envies or admires WTROIECTION is the symbolic assimilation or talking into one’s self a loved or hated persons.or external ‘object, This is a form of identification, PROJECTION, unconsciously making another persons Or circumstances responsible for one’s unacceptable thought or actions. It involves repression of undesirable qualities, REACTION FORMATATION, attitudes, motives and needs that are directly opposite of those consciously acknowledged. (overcompensation) SUBLIMATION is the diversion of consciously Unacceptable instinctual drives into personally and socially accepted areas. SUBSTITUTION is the replacement of an unacceptable need, attitude or emotion with one that is more acceptable. Comparable to displacement. DISSOCIATION, the unconscious separation of painful feelings and emotions from an acceptable idea, situation or object; temporary alteration of consciousness or identity, ate i ee gl = UNDOING it is an unconscious, symbolic attempt to eliminate the existence of a previous dreadful/painful experience = SYMBOLIZATION, a person attaches significance (> shapes of objects, colors, materials, slogan, words, etc. = DISPLACEMENT, discharging of pent-up feelings from ‘one person, idea or object to another. ISOLATION, the separation of an unacceptable impulse act idea from its memory origin, thereby removing the ‘emotional charge. = FANTASY, a conscious creation or distortion of unacceptable fears, wishes and behaviors; use of imagination or daydreaming. NB: The goal of the nurse is to transform/translate the patient’s defensive thinking into non-defensive, direct thinking. pac bitt atte, dn ey of