Title: Identify defense and coping mechanisms.
Course: Nurse Aide I (14051-I) > Section: Understanding Individual Needs: Mental Health

Identification includes

- anger
- compensation
- conversion
- denial
- displacement
- projection
- rationalization
- regression
- repression.

Refer to Unit IX in Nurse Aide Curriculum, Virginia Board of Nursing, Virginia Department of Health Professions, 2023.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What coping mechanisms might individuals demonstrate?
- What are the different defense mechanisms that individuals may demonstrate?
- Why might a client use a coping or defense mechanism?