ABGC BOARDS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Intellectualization - ✔✔the emotional responses to a situation are repressed and the
situation is addressed through rational, cognitive processes
✔✔Displacement - ✔✔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 - ✔✔: wishes or drives that are deemed unacceptable are channeled
into more socially acceptable activities
✔✔Reaction formation: - ✔✔the individual utilizes the opposite action or emotion to
ward off unacceptable emotions or wishes
✔✔Projection: - ✔✔repressed or unacceptable emotions or wishes are perceived as
residing in others
✔✔Projective identification - ✔✔the individual's behavior induces a repressed or
unacceptable emotion in another person
✔✔Working from a script: - ✔✔present with a "rehearsed story", often happens when an
individual repeats the same information to many health care providers - try redirecting
✔✔Rationalization: - ✔✔patient is trying to justify his or her feelings, beliefs or choices
✔✔Projection - ✔✔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: - ✔✔seeing the situation as only having certain options, when, in
fact, there are other options to be considered
✔✔Intellectualization - ✔✔the emotional responses to a situation are repressed and the
situation is addressed through rational, cognitive processes
✔✔Displacement - ✔✔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 - ✔✔: wishes or drives that are deemed unacceptable are channeled
into more socially acceptable activities
✔✔Reaction formation: - ✔✔the individual utilizes the opposite action or emotion to
ward off unacceptable emotions or wishes
✔✔Projection: - ✔✔repressed or unacceptable emotions or wishes are perceived as
residing in others
✔✔Projective identification - ✔✔the individual's behavior induces a repressed or
unacceptable emotion in another person
✔✔Working from a script: - ✔✔present with a "rehearsed story", often happens when an
individual repeats the same information to many health care providers - try redirecting
✔✔Rationalization: - ✔✔patient is trying to justify his or her feelings, beliefs or choices
✔✔Projection - ✔✔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: - ✔✔seeing the situation as only having certain options, when, in
fact, there are other options to be considered
