A 40-year-old patient cries and has a tantrum when the physician refuses to give her a prescription for diet pills. The nurse realizes that this is the use of which defense mechanism?
a. Compensation
b. Denial
c. Regression
d. Repression
ANS: C
Regression is a behavior that reflects the return to an earlier form of coping.
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