A client who abuses alcohol was brought to the hospital as a police hold after a fight with his wife. When the client is sober, the nurse recognizes that the client is using a defensive behavior called rationalization
Which statement did the client make? 1. "I don't remember doing any of those things."
2. "The police are always out to get me; I bet they were watching my house."
3. "I just needed my space. If she had just left me alone, I wouldn't have hit her."
4. "When my wife comes in, tell her to take the money I left in the hospital safe."
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Rationale: Rationalization is a falsification of experience through construction of a social or local explanation. The client not remembering could be repression. Feeling that the police are out to get the client sounds like projection. Suggesting that the wife should retrieve the money from the safe does not indicate a defensive behavior.
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