Topic: Inappropriate Ways We Use To Handle Frustration

●Aggression: Attack toward a person or object. Forms of aggression are verbal and physical. Examples: gossip, digs, slights, off color remarks, swearing, and making negative value-judgments

●Regression: Reverting back to earlier forms of behavior. Examples: temper tantrums and pouting. This person always got his or her way when he or she threw a fit as a child.

●Fixation: Repeating the same non-constructive behavior over and over again. Example: trying to put a large bolt into a small hole long after it becomes apparent the large bolt was too large for the small hole.

●Resignation: Giving up, becoming apathetic, or not caring anymore.

●Negativism: Adoption of a negative, resistive frame of reference. Example: Thinking negatively when a positive expectation is realistic.

●Repression: Blocking out the conscious thought of a problem in hopes the problem will go away. Example: Thinking positively in light of a problem needing action.

●Withdrawal: Withdrawing from a situation either physically or psychologically. Example: A loner

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