Explain the Terms Repression, Denial and Displacement

question 24

Essay

Explain the terms repression, denial and displacement.

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Definitions:

Thoracentesis

A medical procedure involving the insertion of a needle through the chest wall to remove fluid from the pleural space for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.

Encouragement

The act of providing support, confidence, or hope to someone.

Task-oriented Touch

A therapeutic method where touch is used purposefully to complete specific tasks or objectives in patient care.

Nursing Theories

A set of concepts, definitions, relationships, and assumptions or propositions derived from nursing models or from other disciplines and project a purposive, systematic view of phenomena by designing specific inter-relationships among concepts for the purposes of describing, explaining, predicting, and prescribing.