Title: Identify defense and coping mechanisms.
Course: Nurse Aide I Condensed (14051-I-A) > Section: Understanding Individual Needs: Mental Health

Identification includes

- compensation
- conversion
- denial
- displacement
- projection
- rationalization
- regression
- repression.

Refer to Unit IX in Nurse Aide Curriculum, Virginia Board of Nursing, Virginia Department of Health Professions, 2018.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What are the different coping mechanisms that individuals may demonstrate?
- What are the different defense mechanisms that individuals may demonstrate?
- Why might a client/resident/patient use a coping or defense mechanism?