ABCG ACTUAL EXAM PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
▶ Distancing? Answer:acts as if nothing has happened
▶ Self-controlling:? Answer:keeps feelings to oneself
▶ Seek social support:? Answer:talks with others in the hope of learning
more
▶ Accept responsibility? Answer:criticizes or blames oneself
▶ Escape-avoidance? Answer:hopes for a miracle
▶ Plan? Answer:identifies next steps and follows through with them
▶ Positive reappraisal? Answer:tries to see any possible positive results or
outcomes
▶ Repression? Answer:feelings, perceptions, or memories are lost to
consciousness. While it is a defense in its own right, it is also a component
of other defenses
▶ Denial? Answer:the reality of a situation or perception is not consciously
experienced or recognized
▶ Intellectualization? Answer:the emotional responses to a situation are
repressed and the situation is addressed through rational, cognitive
processes
▶ Displacement? Answer:the expression of an emotion to the appropriate
recipient is unacceptable or anxiety producing, and the emotion is thus
expressed to a more socially acceptable recipient
, ▶ Sublimation? Answer:: wishes or drives that are deemed unacceptable
are channeled into more socially acceptable activities
▶ Reaction formation:? Answer:the individual utilizes the opposite action or
emotion to ward off unacceptable emotions or wishes
▶ Projection:? Answer:repressed or unacceptable emotions or wishes are
perceived as residing in others
▶ Projective identification? Answer:the individual's behavior induces a
repressed or unacceptable emotion in another person
▶ Working from a script:? Answer:present with a "rehearsed story", often
happens when an individual repeats the same information to many health
care providers - try redirecting
▶ Rationalization:? Answer:patient is trying to justify his or her feelings,
beliefs or choices
▶ Projection? Answer:patients may attribute their feelings or attitudes to
others - "everyone will think I am ___" when in fact it is the patient that feels
that way
▶ Either-or thinking:? Answer:seeing the situation as only having certain
options, when, in fact, there are other options to be considered
▶ Disbelief? Answer:the information provided is heard but not accepted
because it does not make sense
▶ mimics of denial? Answer:disbelief, deferral, dismissal
▶ Deferral:? Answer:the information is accepted but the implications are
not
▶ Dismissal? Answer:devaluing or attacking the legitimacy of the
professional or the profession from which bad news is received
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
▶ Distancing? Answer:acts as if nothing has happened
▶ Self-controlling:? Answer:keeps feelings to oneself
▶ Seek social support:? Answer:talks with others in the hope of learning
more
▶ Accept responsibility? Answer:criticizes or blames oneself
▶ Escape-avoidance? Answer:hopes for a miracle
▶ Plan? Answer:identifies next steps and follows through with them
▶ Positive reappraisal? Answer:tries to see any possible positive results or
outcomes
▶ Repression? Answer:feelings, perceptions, or memories are lost to
consciousness. While it is a defense in its own right, it is also a component
of other defenses
▶ Denial? Answer:the reality of a situation or perception is not consciously
experienced or recognized
▶ Intellectualization? Answer:the emotional responses to a situation are
repressed and the situation is addressed through rational, cognitive
processes
▶ Displacement? Answer:the expression of an emotion to the appropriate
recipient is unacceptable or anxiety producing, and the emotion is thus
expressed to a more socially acceptable recipient
, ▶ Sublimation? Answer:: wishes or drives that are deemed unacceptable
are channeled into more socially acceptable activities
▶ Reaction formation:? Answer:the individual utilizes the opposite action or
emotion to ward off unacceptable emotions or wishes
▶ Projection:? Answer:repressed or unacceptable emotions or wishes are
perceived as residing in others
▶ Projective identification? Answer:the individual's behavior induces a
repressed or unacceptable emotion in another person
▶ Working from a script:? Answer:present with a "rehearsed story", often
happens when an individual repeats the same information to many health
care providers - try redirecting
▶ Rationalization:? Answer:patient is trying to justify his or her feelings,
beliefs or choices
▶ Projection? Answer:patients may attribute their feelings or attitudes to
others - "everyone will think I am ___" when in fact it is the patient that feels
that way
▶ Either-or thinking:? Answer:seeing the situation as only having certain
options, when, in fact, there are other options to be considered
▶ Disbelief? Answer:the information provided is heard but not accepted
because it does not make sense
▶ mimics of denial? Answer:disbelief, deferral, dismissal
▶ Deferral:? Answer:the information is accepted but the implications are
not
▶ Dismissal? Answer:devaluing or attacking the legitimacy of the
professional or the profession from which bad news is received
