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A client is admitted to a psychiatric unit for treatment of a psychotic disorder. The client is at the locked exit door and is shouting. 'Let me out! There's nothing wrong with me! I don't belong here!' The nurse identifies this behavior as which defense mechanism?

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Rationale: Denial involves refusing to accept the reality of illness or hospitalization, as seen in the client’s insistence of no problem, unlike regression, projection, or rationalization.

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