To protect itself and the relatives, it is necessary to represent well what is methods of psychological protection. When in human life there is a menacing situation, he is alarmed, tension, concern, at the same time becomes easily vulnerable. To lower alarm, methods of psychological protection begin to join.
Instruction
1. One of the main and first types of protection is a denial. To protect itself from an unpleasant situation, the person begins to deny reality. "It is a mistake", "it cannot be", "not I" and to that similar phrases say it that the person is under the influence of denial as a protection method. At such moment to protect itself and the relatives, it is not necessary to argue and provide powerful proofs. Just it is the best of all to be near and give to the person time for judgment.
2. The following mechanism of protection – regression. It has many manifestations – the senior child who begins to be written to a bed and to murmur when in the house the younger child appears; the child missing in the summer camp the house; the married person who goes to mother. If the loved one chooses such method of psychological protection, it is necessary to show it the love, to prove words and affairs that it is expensive and loved.
3. It is the simplest to observe rationalization as a method of protection in day of examinations. To explain the ignorance, attempts to explain the behavior by means of the thought-up reasonable and convincing behavior begin. If the child or the family member very often uses rationalization as a way of protection, it can lead to emotional exhaustion and decrease in adaptability to life situations. It is necessary to learn and learn to assume responsibility for the acts together with relatives and, having made a mistake, to draw conclusions how it would be better to arrive next time.
4. The most positive ways of protection is compensation and sublimation. At compensation of people tries to achieve success in that area in which considers himself restrained. Such protection gives an additional incentive for development. And sublimation is a transformation of unrealized desires, imaginations and unacceptable thoughts to a certain constructive activity.