family structure and function tools in family assessment Flashcards
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A systematic way of understanding the family and to aid them in evaluating the impact of illness on a person and on his/her role in the family.
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Family assessment tools
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Family map is developed by __________, a psychiatrist - family therapist.
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Salvador Minuchin
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Facilitates the communication of information’s about a family system to colleagues so that they can be understood
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Family map
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Reflect family relationships and interaction patterns
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Family map
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Tool for obtaining a therapeutic ally for the delivery of care in the family
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Family map
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Provides schematic description on whom to ask for assistance in making decisions for the patient
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Family map
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Possible source of somatic complaint may also be identified
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Family map
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Author of Family APGAR
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Gabriel Smilkstein
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The purpose is to assess general family function
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Family APGAR
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The capability of the family to UTILIZE and SHARE inherent resources
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Adaptation
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Measures the satisfaction attained in solving problems by communication
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Partnership
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Refers to the freedom of change both physical and emotional growth
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Growth
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It is the intimacy and emotional interaction in the family
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Affection
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The member’s satisfaction with the commitment made by other members of the family
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Resolve
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APGAR scoring: 2
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Almost always
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APGAR scoring: 1
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Some of the time
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APGAR scoring: 0
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Hardly ever
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APGAR scoring: Highly functional
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8-10
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APGAR scoring: Moderately dysfunctional
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4-7
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APGAR scoring: Severely dysfunctional
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0-3
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What is SCREEM?
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Social Cultural Religious Economic Educational Medical
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Very important in the assessment of the family as to its capacity to participate in the provision of health care or to cope with crisis
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SCREEM
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Commonly used when the need for care is long or lasts a lifetime
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SCREEM
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Assess the resource of difficult and non-compliant patients
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SCREEM
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SCREEM family resources survey is developed by ____________.
M. Medina, Jr.
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The goal is to develop a valid and reliable Filipino measure of family resources.
SCREEM family resource survey
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Assesses the family's capacity to participate in the provision of health care or to cope with crisis.
SCREEM family resource survey
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SCREEM RES: 0-6
Severely inadequately family resources
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SCREEM RES: 7-12
Moderately inadequate family resources
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SCREEM RES: 13-18
Adequate family resources
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Provides a predictable and chronological sequence of events in the family's life, which can be related to clinical events and to the health maintenance of family members
Family life cycle
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Description of the family dynamics through clearly defined stages of development.
Family life cycle
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One has to explore whether family members seldom act INDEPENDENTLY or get OVERINVOLVED with each other.
Enmeshment
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This is symbolized by three parallel lines.
Enmeshment
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One has to explore whether family members are isolated from each other or have little emotional response from each other.
Disengagement
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This is symbolized by dotted lines.
Disengagement
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One has to explore whether the family members talk directly to each other about personal matters.
Triangulation
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This is symbolized by an open-ended arrow with its open end embracing two individuals and the pointed end pointing to a third person.
Triangulation
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One has to explore whether one member of the family is siding with one member.
Coalition
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This is symbolized by a bracket.
Coalition
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The behavioral skeleton around which family life is built.
Family structure
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A family who is not open to negotiation in spite of the fact that circumstances render the old boundaries no longer appropriate is considered _______.
Rigid
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It exist if couple spend little time together, have separate bedrooms or completely separate lives.
Rigid boundaries
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Create dysfunctional families when members fail to adjust during phase transitions.
Rigid boundaries
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Rigid boundaries may lead to ____________.
Disengagement
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Establishing personal independence
Unattached adult (Leaving home)
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Establishing an intimate relationship with spouse
Newly married couple
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Dividing the various marital roles in an equitable way
Learning to live together
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Opening the family to include a new member
Family with young children
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Increasing the flexibility of the family boundaries to allow the adolescent to move in and out of the family system.
Family with adolescent
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Accepting the multitude of exits from and entries into the family system
Launching Family
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Adjusting to the ending of the wage-earning rates.
Retirement
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Dealing with lessening abilities and greater dependence on others
Old age
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Beginning emotional separation from parents
Leaving home
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Developing further the EMOTIONAL SEPARATION from parents
Newly married couple
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Establishing a new, more independent relationship with family
Learning to live together
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Dividing the PARENTING ROLES
Family with young children
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Adjusting to the ending of parenting roles
Launching family
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Minimal emphasis on the family in the delivery of health care.
Level I
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Ongoing medical information and advice. WORKS COLLABORATIVELY with patientd and families, and understands the triangular nature of the patient-doctor-family relationship.
Level II
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Feelings and support. The physician understands normal family development and how families react to stress.
Level III
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Assessment of family dysfunction and provision of intervention. It is the most common involvement among patients who are alcohol or drug abusers.
Level IV
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Family therapy
Level V
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The traditional type of family.
Nuclear family
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Was long considered by most societies as being the ideal way of raising children
Nuclear family
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Children find stability and strength and usually have a lot more opportunities because of the financial ease of both parents
Nuclear family
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Couples who either choose not or cannot conceive children
Childless family
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Often considered as the “forgotten family” as it doesn’t really meet the traditional rules set by most societies
Childless family
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Includes a wife, a husband working and living together
Childless family
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Most of these families choose to own a pet or keep contact with their nephews or nieces as a substitute
Childless family
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Represents the biggest change in a society if we are to speak about family structures
Single-parent family
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Usually close and are always looking for ways of solving their issues together, like dividing up the chores around the house.
Single-parent family
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Just as about as frequent as nuclear family, although they have a tendency of having more issues, like discipline problems or adjustments periods
Step-family
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Includes 2 or more adults who have some sort of relation, either by marriage or blood.
Extended family
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Grouping of individuals which are formed for specific ideological or societal purposes
Communal family
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Considered as an alternative lifestyle for people who feel alienated from the predominantly economically oriented society
Communal family
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Classification based on descent:
Patrilineal, Matrilineal
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Classification based on residence
Neolocal, matrilocal, patrilocal
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Classification based on authority
Equalitiarian, matriarchal, patriarchal
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Classification based on naming
Patronymic, matronymic
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Classification according to relationship
Conjugal, unmarried
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Classification according to set-up
Democratic, authoritarian
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Classification according to social class
Lower, middle or upper class
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Member gives some priority to the needs of the group over his own needs.
Functional Family Relationship
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Recurrent patterns of behavior by which individuals fulfill family functions and needs
Family roles
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Concerned with the provision of physical resources (food, shelter and clothing), decision making and family management
Instrumental role
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To provide emotional support and encouragement to family members
Affective role
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Assignment of responsibilities within a family that enables the family to function properly
Role Allocation
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Make decisions on who will be responsible for completing a certain task for fulfilling a particularly responsibility
Role Allocation
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Refer to a family members sense of responsibility for completing the tasks of an assigned role
Family accountability
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Parents in healthy families understand that they are responsible for disciplining their children.
Family accountability
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5 Essential Roles For Effective Family Functioning:
1. Provision of resoures
2. Nurturance and support
3. Life skills development
4. Maintenance and Management of the Family system
5. Sexual Gratification of Marital Partners
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Created for the purpose of defending against others
Permanent alliance
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Seriously disrupt a family's functional adaptive capacity
Permanent Alliance
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Disruptive and distorts the normal balance of family relationship
Permanent Alliance
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Has distorted thinking and believes that they are basically responsible for the other person's dysfunction
The Enabler
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Tends to blame others, makes strong peer alliances, and is often disciplined by teachers or other adults for breaking rules.
The Scapegoat
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Always, volunteering, very responsible and manifests a drive, almost a compulsion, to be on top.
The Hero
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Often gets lost in the shuffle
The Lost Child
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Tends to be funny or distracting and gets attention frequently. This student likes to hide, make faces, pull the chair from someone else, otherwise act out.
The mascot
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Assigning of blame to a person or things for fault of others
Scapegoating
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Object is to draw off tension that cannot be resolved in the usual manner and assign it to another
Scapegoating
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Frequently occurs in a strict authoritarian family
Scapegoating
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One in which the wife is dependent and infantile and in which the husband's self esteem and fragile maturity depend on keeping her that way
Doll's house family
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The husband's ego strength and borderline maturity rely upon the continuation of this relationship
Doll's house family
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The spouses are not merely unhappy but ar openly hostile to one another, often competing for loyalty of the children
Shizophrenic family
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Children lack a warm, affectionate relationship between parents and children
Delinquency
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Common among boys who have lost their father or passed through an important formative years (ages 4 to 8) without a father figure present or with one present who serves inadequately in the paternal role
Delinquency
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Deprived of a supportive environment and raised where care is impersonal and inadequate often shows developmental difficulty and high susceptibility to diseases and can also affect the child's IQ.
Emotional deprivation
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A relationship has been shown between incontinence in children and the strength of maternal relationship during the early formative years.
Enuresis
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Bedwetting is greatest if total disruption of the family occurs through either divorce or abandonment.
Enuresis
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Major cause of death in children over 1 year old in developed countries
Accidental injuries
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5 Major Forms of Family Disorders:
1. Uncompleted family unit
2. Willed family dissolution
3. Empty shell family
4. Externally caused crisis
5. Internal catastrophe
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Any event, past or present that changes the lifestyle or presents a significant strain upon family organization.
Crisis
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A crisis identified with short and long term addition of one or more to the family structure.
Addition (Hill's Taxonomy of Crisis)
Examples: Adoption, birth, marriage, unplanned pregnancy
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Associated with the threat of loss or actual departure of a family member
Abandonment
Examples: Planned departure, separation, death, stow away
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A crisis that occurs when a family member initiated a change in a previously ordained family moral code
Demoralization
Examples: School suspension, alcoholism, drug abuse, delinquency, infidelity
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Crisis involving gain or loss of wealth, power or position in the family or extra familial society
Status change
Examples: Loss of income, sudden fame, expulsion, loss of freedom
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State of impaired functioning that occurs when an individuals resources are inadequate or unavailable to meet an intense stressor or an accumulation of stressor
Disequilibirium
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Assets that serve to nurture an individual and those that supply the means for solving stressor-induced problems
Resources
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Refers to adjustment by the family to stressors within and outside the family
Coping
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State of family disequilibrium that results from the failure of an individual to identify or use resources to resolve a stressor induced problem
Crisis
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The use of pathologic defense mechanisms to escape from an unresolved crisis, resulting in a state of impaired emotional and social functioning.
Maladaptation
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State of impaired interaction or nurturing within the family that follows the use of abnormal defense mechanisms to escape from anxiety of unresolved family crisis.
Pathologic disequilibrium
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Family function is continuously deteriorating because of failure to resolve a crisis, may eventually lead to family dissolution.
Terminal Disequilibrium
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Seeing but refusing to acknowledge what one sees and hearing but negating what is actually heard
Denial
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Involves purposeful, UNCONSCIOUS SHIFTING from one object to another the interest of solving a conflict.
Displacement
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Actually plays a crucial role in ego development but can be used a defense mechanism when a person unconsciously incorporates the characteristics and qualities of another person or object into his ego system.
Identification
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Differs from identification in the fact that this involves internalization of the characteristics of another person or object, creating a radical shift or alteration in the person.
Introjection
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Individual provides a plausible but inaccurate justification for his or her failures
Rationalization
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Consist of expelling and withholding from conscious awareness of an idea or feeling
Repression
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The redirection of feeling and desires and especially of those unconsciously retained from childhood toward a new object.
Transference
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Individual retreats to an earlier developmental stage that was more secure and pleasant and/or the use of less mature response in attempting to cope with stress.
Regression
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Performing an extreme behavior in order to express thoughts or feelings the person feels incapable of otherwise expressing.
Acting out
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Reduces anxiety by converting dangerous thoughts, feelings, behavior or impulses into their opposite feelings, impulses or behavior.
Reaction formation
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Reduces anxiety by thinking about events in a cold clinical way
Intellectualization
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The defensive conversion of psychic derivative of bodily symptoms tendency to react with somatic rather than psychic manifestations.
Somatization
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Perceiving and reacting to an UNACCEPTABLE INNER IMPULSE and their derivatives as though they were outside the shelf.
Projection
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Redirecting or acting put unacceptable impulses or wrong urges into SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE IMPULSE
Sublimation
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Consciously forcing the unwanted information out of conscious awareness.
Supression
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Process of counterbalancing perceived weakness by emphasizing strength IN OTHER AREAS
Compensation
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Satisfying internal needs THROUGH HELPING OTHERS
Altruism
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