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PN 103: Mental Health EXAM | Questions Solved100% Correct| Verified Answers
Eating Disorders - ✔✔Is not usually about food. It's about controlling what they can when
they can't control feelings or circumstances.
Traumatic Brain Injury - ✔✔Trauma to the brain that changes a person's ability to process
and respond to the world. Can be phyisical, drug exposure, neglect, environmental exposures,
etc. *Often drug resistant.*
Denial - ✔✔Defense mechanism of refusing to believe or perceive reality
Repression - ✔✔Defense mechanism of keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in
the unconscious
Rationalization - ✔✔Defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of
the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions
Compensation - ✔✔A defense mechanism where something is done to make up for
something that is lacking
Reaction Formation - ✔✔Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to
what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.
Regression - ✔✔Defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to an
earlier psychological stage.
Projection - ✔✔Defense mechanism where people disguise their own impulses by attributing
them to others
, Displacement - ✔✔Defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a
more acceptable or less threatening object or person.
Transference - ✔✔Defense mechanism where the patient's transfer the emotions linked
with other relationships to their therapist/healthcare worker.
Restitution - ✔✔Defense mechanism where guilt is relieved by making reparations.
Conversion Reaction - ✔✔Defense mechanism where anxiety is channeled into physical
symptoms
Avoidance - ✔✔Defense mechanism where a reaction to conflict is to ignore the problem by
doing nothing at all, or diminishing the disagreement.
Mental Illness - ✔✔Inability to cope with a situation related to a distortion of thought,
behavior and feelings.
Stress - ✔✔Non-specific response to the body for any demand made of it. (Good and bad)
Coping - ✔✔The way one adapts psychologically, physically and behaviorally to a stressor.
A patient will feel happier and calmer 2 weeks into an anti-depressant treatment. True/False. -
✔✔False. A course of anti-depressant takes at least 3-4 weeks to see a change and 6-8
weeks to determine a result.
Name 4 Communication Blocks for mental health patients... - ✔✔*Agreeing/Disagreeing
*Asking "Why?"
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