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Compensation
Covering up a real or perceived weakness by emphasizing a trait one considers more desirable
Denial
Refusing to acknowledge the existence of a real situation or the feelings associated with it
Displacement
The transfer of feelings from one target to another that is considered less threatening or that is neutral
Identification
An attempt to increased self worth by acquiring certain attributes and characteristics of an individual one admires.
Intellectualization
An attempt to avoid expressing actual emotions associated with a stressful situation by using the intellectual processes of logic, reasoning, and analysis
Introjection
Integreating the beliefs and values of another individual into one's own ego structure
Isolation
Separating a thought or memory from the feeling tone or emotion associated with it
Projection
Attributing feelings or impulses unacceptable to one's self to another person
Rationalization
Attempting to make excuses or formulate logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors
Reaction Formation
Preventing unacceptable or undesireable thoughts or behaviors from being expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors
Regression
Responding to stress by retreating to an earlier level of development and the comfort measures associated with that level of functioning
Repression
Involuntarily blocking unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness
Sublimation
Rechanneling of drives or impulses that are personally or socially unacceptable into activities that are constructive
Suppression
The voluntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness
Undoing
Symbolically negating or cancelling out an experience that one finds intolerable
Anxiety disorder
Disorder in which the characteristic feature is symptomes of anxiety and avoidance behaviors
Somatoform disorders
Disorders in which the characteristic features are physical symptoms for which there is no demonstrabale organic pathology
Dissociative Disorders
disorders in which the caharacteristic feature is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of the consciousness, memory, indentity, or perception of the environment.
Physchosis
loss of ego boundaries or a gross impariment in reality testing
Grief
A subjective state of emotional, phsyical, and social responses to the loss of a valued entity
T/F:

absence of mourning aftera loss may be considered maladaptive
true
Denial
1st stage of greif
Anger
2nd stage of greif
Bargaining
2rd stage of grief
Depression
4th stage of grief
acceptance
5th stage of grief
Anticipatory grief
When the work of grieving has begun before the loss (when loss is anticipated).
Bereavement overload
When there is frequent loss and the individual has not had time to complete the grieving process before another loss occurs
Maladaptive response to grief
when an individual is not able to progress satisfactorily through the stages of grieving to achieve resolution
Prologned grief
responces that are prolonged, delayed or inhibited. Can be associated with the stages of denial or anger
Delayed / Inhibited grief
subject is stuck at the denial stage of grief.
distorted grief
subject is tuck at the anger stage of grief
T/F

Pathalogical depression is a distorted grief responce
True
Axis I
Clinical disorders and other disorders that may be the focus of clinical attention
Axis II
Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation
Axis III
General medical conditions
Axis IV
Psychosocial and environmental problems
Axis V
Global assessment of functioning
Selye
founding father of stress research. Responsible for the 3 stages of reaction to stress
Personality
THe combination of character, behavioral, tempermental, emotional, and mental traits that is unique to each specific individual
Freud
Psychoanalytica or psychosexual theory
Id
Pleasure principal
Ego
reality principal
Super-ego
perfection principal
The conscious
all emories that remain within and individual's awareness. Events that are easily remembered or retrieved
The preconscious
all memories that may have been forgotten or are not in present awareness but, with attention, can readily be recalled into consciousness.
The unconscious
Includes all memories that one is unable to bring to conscious awareness. Repressed memories.
Libido
Psychic energy or the drive to fulfill basic physiological needs such as hunger, thrist, and sex
cathexis
process by which the id invests energy into an object in an attempt to achieve gratification
anticathexis
use of psychic energy by the ego and the superego to control id impulses
Oral stage
Birth - 18 mo

Relief from anxiety through oral gratifgication of needs
Anal stage
18 mo - 3 years

Learning independence and control, with focus on the excretory function
Phallic
3 - 6 year

Identification with parent of same gender; development of sexual identity; focus on gential organs
Latency
6 - 12 yr

Sexuality repressed; focus on relationships with same-gender peers
Genital
13 - 20 yr

Libido reawakens as genital organs mature; focus on relationships with members of the opposite gender.
Oedipus/electra complex
child's unconscious desire to eliminate the parent of the same gender and to possess the parent of the opposite gender for himself or herself.
Interpersonal Theory
Sullivan

Individual behavior and personality development are the direct result of interpersonal relatioships.
Sullivan - Infancy
Birth - 18mo

Relief from anxiety through oral gratification of needs
Sullivan - Childhood
18mo - 6 years

Learning to experience a delay in personal gratification without undue anxiety
Sullivan - Juvenile
6yr - 9yr

Learing from satisfactory peer relationships
Sullivan - Preadolescence
9yr - 12yr

Learning to form satisfactory relationships with persons of same gender initiating feelngs of affection for another person.
Sullivan - Early Adolescence
12 yr - 14yr

Learning to form satisfactory relationships with persons of the oposite gender; developing a sense of identiy
Sullivan - Late adolescence
14yr - 21 yr

Establishing self identity; experiencing satisfying relationships; working to develop a lasting, intimate opposite gender relationship