This article provides a narrative response to a precariousness labour situation. The question it attempts to answer is: how does one cope with the precariousness and injustices of contemporary employment without becoming pessimistic or hopeless? The piece, based on the author's personal experience, argues that we can tell and write our career…

Research showing that activation of negative stereotypes can impair the performance of stigmatized individuals on a wide variety of tasks has proliferated. However, a complete understanding of the processes underlying these stereotype threat effects on behavior is still lacking. The authors examine stereotype threat in the context of research on…

Extension is in a position to help the elderly create new roles and options for their lives and develop their potential as resources for society. (Author/SK)

Job stress among institutional researchers and approaches to managing or coping with stress are considered. In considering different types of stressors and stress reactions, it is noted that stress from all sources is cumulative and cannot be ignored during the workday, and that both pleasant and unpleasant happenings can result in stress. One…

Discussion of job stress faced by librarians identifies characteristics most often associated with burnout, characteristics of helping professions that intensify burnout factors, and suggestions to consider for fighting the tendency to burn out. A personal account of a burnout victim (junior high school librarian) is included. Six sources are…

This paper discusses the effects on children of our failure to deal with prejudicial attitudes and racial stereotyping in our public schools. Several suggestions for confronting and dealing with these negative influences are offered. (Author/GC)

This monograph is designed to give people engaged in human service activities some new and fresh ideas on how to handle stress, how to benefit from its positive aspects, and how to neutralize its detrimental effects. Part 1 provides a background statement and refers readers to an extensive bibliography provided at the end of the paper for those…