Mental Quiz 1 Week 6, Questions With Answers And Rationale

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Mental Quiz 1 Week 6, Questions With Answers And Rationale.Friends invite an adult diagnosed with type 2 diabetes to go on a mountain hike the following week. The client replies, "I can’t go becau... se I don’t have any hiking shoes." In actuality, this adult fears difficulty with blood glucose management during strenuous activity. Which defense mechanism is evident in the adult’s response? Rationale The correct answer, rationalization, refers to justifying an action to satisfy the teller and the listener, which the client does by using hiking shoes as an excuse to mask the real reason for not going. Displacement is the transfer of emotions about a particular person, object, or situation to one that is nonthreatening. Passive aggression is the indirect and unassertive expression of aggression toward others. Reaction formation involves keeping unacceptable feelings or behaviors out of one’s awareness by developing the opposite behavior or emotion. p. 135 A client is hospitalized with a diagnosis of conversion disorder. Which factor related to the conversion disorder does the nurse most consider? Rationale Displacement Rationalization Passive aggression Reaction formation The client may show neurological symptoms. The client definitively has a psychiatric disorder. The client definitively has a neurological disorder. The client does not have associated psychiatric conditions. Clients diagnosed with conversion disorder show neurological symptoms in the absence of an organic cause. A client with conversion disorder does not have a psychiatric or neurological disorder, because the client is channeling emotional conflicts into physical symptoms. He or she may have associated psychiatric conditions like anxiety, depression, or posttraumatic stress disorder that may exaggerate the condition. [Show More]

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