A 40-Year-Old Patient Cries and Has a Tantrum When the Physician

question 33

Multiple Choice

A 40-year-old patient cries and has a tantrum when the physician refuses to give her a prescription for diet pills. The nurse realizes that this is the use of which defense mechanism?

• A) Compensation
• B) Denial
• C) Regression
• D) Repression

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Definitions:

Rhetoricians

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A research technique for systematically analyzing the content of communication material through categorization and quantification.

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