An adult diagnosed with a serious mental illness says, "I do not need help with money management. I have excellent ideas about investments." This patient usually does not have money to buy groceries by the middle of the month
The nurse assesses the patient as demonstrating:
a. rationalization.
b. identification.
c. anosognosia.
d. projection.
ANS: C
The patient scenario describes anosognosia, the inability to recognize one's deficits due to one's illness. The patient is not projecting an undesirable thought or emotion from himself onto others. He is not justifying his behavior via rationalization and is not identifying with another.
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