PN 3003 MENTAL HEALTH CERTIFICATION TEST
2026 COMPLETE MENTAL HEALTH CARE PAPER
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Reaction formation**.
Answer: Preventing unacceptable or undesirable thoughts or
behaviors from being expressed
by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors.
◉ Displacement.
Answer: The transfer of feelings from one target to another that is
considered less threatening or that
is neutral.
◉ Regression.
Answer: Retreating in response to stress to an earlier level of
development and the comfort measures
associated with that level of functioning.
◉ Identification.
Answer: An attempt to increase self-worth by acquiring certain
attributes and characteristics of an
,individual one admires.
◉ Repression.
Answer: Involuntarily blocking unpleasant feelings and experiences
from one's awareness
◉ Intellectualization.
Answer: An attempt to avoid expressing actual emotions associated
with a stressful situation by
using the intellectual processes of logic, reasoning, and analysis.
◉ Sublimation.
Answer: Rechanneling of drives or impulses that are personally or
socially unacceptable into activities
that are constructive.
◉ Introjection.
Answer: Integrating the beliefs and values of another individual into
one's own ego structure.
◉ Suppression.
Answer: The voluntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and
experiences from one's awareness.
, ◉ Isolation.
Answer: Separating a thought or memory from the feeling, tone, or
emotion associated with it.
◉ Undoing.
Answer: Symbolically negating or canceling out an experience that
one finds intolerable.
◉ Projection.
Answer: Attributing feelings or impulses unacceptable to one's self
to another person.
◉ Dichotomous Thinking.
Answer: Individual views situations in terms of all or nothing, black
or white, good or bad.
◉ Selective abstraction.
Answer: A conclusion that's based on only a selected portion of
evidence-usually negative evidence.
◉ Personalization.
2026 COMPLETE MENTAL HEALTH CARE PAPER
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Reaction formation**.
Answer: Preventing unacceptable or undesirable thoughts or
behaviors from being expressed
by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors.
◉ Displacement.
Answer: The transfer of feelings from one target to another that is
considered less threatening or that
is neutral.
◉ Regression.
Answer: Retreating in response to stress to an earlier level of
development and the comfort measures
associated with that level of functioning.
◉ Identification.
Answer: An attempt to increase self-worth by acquiring certain
attributes and characteristics of an
,individual one admires.
◉ Repression.
Answer: Involuntarily blocking unpleasant feelings and experiences
from one's awareness
◉ Intellectualization.
Answer: An attempt to avoid expressing actual emotions associated
with a stressful situation by
using the intellectual processes of logic, reasoning, and analysis.
◉ Sublimation.
Answer: Rechanneling of drives or impulses that are personally or
socially unacceptable into activities
that are constructive.
◉ Introjection.
Answer: Integrating the beliefs and values of another individual into
one's own ego structure.
◉ Suppression.
Answer: The voluntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and
experiences from one's awareness.
, ◉ Isolation.
Answer: Separating a thought or memory from the feeling, tone, or
emotion associated with it.
◉ Undoing.
Answer: Symbolically negating or canceling out an experience that
one finds intolerable.
◉ Projection.
Answer: Attributing feelings or impulses unacceptable to one's self
to another person.
◉ Dichotomous Thinking.
Answer: Individual views situations in terms of all or nothing, black
or white, good or bad.
◉ Selective abstraction.
Answer: A conclusion that's based on only a selected portion of
evidence-usually negative evidence.
◉ Personalization.
