Explores how feelings of frustration arise and what can be done to cope with them.

A child talks about how it feels to be frustrated and what she does about it

Although George Pataki campaigned for change, most of the human infrastructure he inherited is unlikely to change. The psychological consequences to the people of New York State's government will continue to develop even under new leadership. Frustrations caused by downsizing, reduced budgets, institutional constraints, and stalled careers have led to a variety of very human responses: self-denigrating humor, clinical depression, career compromises, organizational sabotage-and several forms of creativity. This book treats the New York State bureaucracy as a living laboratory, documenting the ways in which people at work for New York State respond to the unavoidable frustrations of government service. This living laboratory was examined using case studies, interviews, and large-scale surveys. The studies included members of every state agency, the Public Employees Federation, the Civil Service Employees Association, the Governor's Office of Employee Relations and a variety of privatized services. The portrait that emerges is a governmental bureaucracy whose facade is distressingly grey, values are frequently compromised, and experience is often clinically depressing. But beneath it all is an additional layer of lively plotting, creative coping, and proactive circumvention. This book identifies both levels of the psychological experience, anticipates future crises within New York State, and offers a humanistic philosophy capable of transforming these developing conflicts into enduring creativity. (view table of contents)

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Alex learns how to roller skate and also learns how to deal with feeling frustrated

Recommends a variety of simple, tested psychological techniques for dealing with the inevitable frustrations and stresses of everyday life by learning when and how to let go

Young readers learn to cope with the feeling of frustration as it is depicted in a variety of common situations and experiences

Describes a number of situations which can cause frustration, such as breaking and losing items, staying inside on a rainy day, being called names, and feeling sick.

Helps youngsters understand what it means to feel frustrated, analyzes various situations that produce feelings of frustration, and suggests ways to overcome or alleviate such feelings

Explains the role of Rational Emotive Therapy in understanding and successfully managing frustration without hostility (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This book describes a new type of behavior that occurs under conditions of frustration. It presents the experimental evidence for new behavior principles, integrates them with other known principles of frustration, shows the impact of the combined principles of frustration on psychological theory, and tests the theory by indicating how it affects our practical approach to problems of behavior...read more