Title: Identify defense mechanisms.
Course: Nurse Aide (14051) > Section: Unit IX: Individual Client’s Needs, including Mental Health and Social Service Needs

Identification should include

- compensation – substituting for the loss
- conversion – changing real reason into something else (e.g., physical symptoms that cannot be explained medically)
- denial – refusing to believe
- displacement – shifting emotion from one person to someone less threatening
- projection – blaming another for one’s actions or feelings
- rationalization – creating acceptable reasons for a behavior
- regression – demonstrating behaviors from an earlier time in life
- repression – refusing to remember something frightening or unpleasant.