SOCIAL WORK DEFENSE MECHANISMS

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Across
  1. 1. change how they naturally feel, to the opposite
  2. 3. when a person projects uncomfortable feelings/thoughts onto someone else
  3. 7. individuals feel detached from their surroundings
  4. 9. people may avoid people or situations that remind them of it
  5. 10. subbing out one behavior to a more acceptable one
  6. 11. when someone disconnects from themselves & their emotions/feelings/
  7. 14. someone who sees themselves as all good or all bad
  8. 16. when someone sees 1 aspect of their life and try to "make up" for it
  9. 17. someone who is engaging in self-discipline, refusing to engage in enjoyable activities
  10. 18. psychological distress or conflict is unconsciously transformed into physical symptoms
  11. 19. when someone starts to incorporate characteristics of another person
  12. 20. a way the mind copes with overwhelming stress or trauma by feeling detached from one's body, thoughts, or emotions, as if observing oneself from outside
  13. 22. someone exaggerates positive attributes and minimizes shortcomings
  14. 23. instead of talking about their feelings, they act out their emotions
  15. 24. doesn't acknowledge something
  16. 25. when a person begins to identify with the projection
  17. 27. using logic and reasoning to avoid an uncomfortable situation
  18. 28. a person generalizes a personal experience or situation to make it seem less specific or personal. It's a way of distancing oneself
  19. 29. when someone uses one thing as a symbol to represent another thing
  20. 31. displaces their thoughts/feelings from 1 person/situation, to another
Down
  1. 2. when someone identifies/mimics/acts like someone else
  2. 4. a state of mental health decline, where an individual's ability to manage their condition deteriorates
  3. 5. to move backward, "towards childhood"
  4. 6. justify something, make an excuse
  5. 8. unconsciously blocks out distressing thoughts, memories, or feelings from conscious awareness, amnesia
  6. 12. consciously and deliberately pushes unwanted thoughts, feelings, or memories out of awareness to cope with distress
  7. 13. substitutes an unacceptable emotion to an acceptable one
  8. 15. when someone adopts/internalizes the views/beliefs of a person of authority
  9. 21. loss of motivation to do something because it will most likely result in other consequences
  10. 26. someone recalls an event and isolates
  11. 30. when someone tries to undo/makeup for undesirable behaviors