ATI Proctored Mental Health Exam Review|
Complete Guide with Questions and Verified
Answers| 2023 / 2024 Newly Updated
Q: Characterized by odd beliefs leading to interpersonal difficulties, an eccentric appearance,
and magical thinking or perceptual distortions that are not clear delusions or hallucinations
Answer:
schizotypal
Q: Dealing with anxiety by reaching out to others.
Ex: a nurse who lost a family member in a fire is a volunteer firefighter
Answer:
Altruism
Q: Dealing with unacceptable feelings or impulses by unconsciously substitute acceptable
forms of expression.
Ex: a person who has feelings of anger and hostility toward his work supervisor sublimates those
feelings by working out vigorously a the gym during his lunch period
Answer:
Sublimation
Q: Voluntarily denying unpleasant thoughts and feelings.
Ex: A person who has lost his job states he will worry about paying his bills next week
Answer:
Suppression
Q: Putting unacceptable ideas, thoughts, and emotions out of conscious awareness.
Ex: a person who has a fear of the dentist’s drill continually “forgets” his dental appointments.
Answer:
Repression
Q: What are healthy defense mechanisms?
Answer:
alturism and sublimation
Q: what are intermediate defenses
Answer:
repression
reaction formation
displacement
rationalization
undoing
Q: What are immature defenses
Answer:
projection
dissociation
splitting
denial
Q: Shifting feelings related to an object, person, or situation to another less threatening object,
person, or situation
Ex: A person who is angry about losing his job destroys his child’s favorite toy
Answer:
displacement
Q: Overcompensating or demonstrating the opposite behavior of what is felt.
Ex: a person who dislikes her sisters daughter offers to babysit so that her sister can go out of
town
Answer:
reaction formation
Q: Performing an act to make up for prior behavior.
Ex; An adolescent completes his chores without being prompted to after having an argument
with his parents.
Answer:
undoing
Q: creating reasonable and acceptable explanations for unacceptable behavior
Ex: A young adult explains he had to drive home from a party after drinking alcohol because he
had to feed his dog.
Answer:
rationalization
Q: temporarily blocking memories and perceptions from consciousness
Ex: an adolescent witnesses a shooting and is unable to recall any details of the event
Answer:
dissociation