Evaluating the Competency of Clients Necessitates Working with the Characteristics

question 19

True/False

Evaluating the competency of clients necessitates working with the characteristics of the individual older adult.

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Definitions:

Projection

An ego defense mechanism whereby individuals attribute to other people characteristics or impulses they do not wish to acknowledge in themselves.

Defecating

The act of expelling feces from the body's large intestine through the anus.

Ego Ideal

A component of the personality comprising the standards and aspirations for behaviors that one strives to achieve.

Id

in Freudian psychoanalysis, it represents the part of the human psyche that is unconscious and contains the basic drives and instinctual desires.