Anger Management Programmes
Anger management programs are structured interventions designed to help individuals understand and regulate their emotions, particularly anger. These programs typically involve teaching coping strategies, communication skills, and stress management techniques to help individuals effectively manage and express their anger in healthier ways. The goal is to reduce the frequency and intensity of anger outbursts and improve overall emotional well-being.
7 Key excerpts on "Anger Management Programmes"
eBook - ePub- Sandi Mann(Author)
- 2012(Publication Date)
- Teach Yourself(Publisher)
...As mentioned repeatedly throughout this book, anger management is not about learning to suppress anger or to try to stop feeling angry; it is about getting angry when it is appropriate to do so and expressing that anger in an appropriate manner. Cognitive and behavioural approaches to anger management involve both the mental processes (our thoughts) and behavioural processes (what we do). We have already discussed in chapter 3 some of these approaches in relation to the ‘angry personality’ but here we will look at some specific cognitive and behavioural techniques aimed at controlling our anger when we know we need to cool it – but just can’t. These techniques include: • avoiding the provocation • distancing yourself from the provocation • disrupting your anger response • taking physical exercise. Point to remember Anger management techniques can involve changing our mental processing, our actual behaviour, or both. Avoiding the provocation Previously (in chapters 2 and 3), we have discussed the avoidance response in reference to a strategy that contributes to the angry personality, so it is important here to distinguish between avoidance as a maladaptive (i.e. negative) anger management strategy (as discussed in chapters 2 and 3) and avoidance as an adaptive (or positive) strategy, as we will see here. The maladaptive avoidance is when the individual avoids dealing with anger – or withdraws from the situation – whereas the strategy to be discussed here is when the individual avoids (or minimizes their exposure to) the provocation or the anger-eliciting event. Avoiding dealing with the anger arousal can be negative and contribute to the angry personality as explained previously, but avoiding the anger-eliciting event can be a positive and helpful strategy. In chapter 1 we started to chart those ‘anger triggers’ that cause anger – and to put them into common themes. You will probably notice a recurrence of the sorts of things that make you angry...
- Amy E. Wenzel(Author)
- 2017(Publication Date)
- SAGE Publications, Inc(Publisher)
...They indicate a moderate effect of anger management training and provide special evidence of the efficacy of multicomponent models. Treatment gains can occur in as few as eight sessions. Although these are promising findings, some authors have questioned the effectiveness of anger management programs, believing that the majority of the positive effects are due to nonspecific, common factors such as positive regard, the therapeutic alliance, and positive expectations of change. Given this possibility, it is wise to take common factors into account when planning anger management programs. Psychoeducation Anger management typically involves psychoeducation and cognitive behavioral techniques. Clients are first taught that anger is a feeling state that occurs within an episode. It follows a predictable path. Anger begins with a trigger, which can be anything, including another person’s behavior, an event, or a memory. Thus, a slow driver, physical pain, or a racial or religious slur can initiate anger. Most triggers, however, have little meaning until they are appraised. For example, a person who is told “You are truly stupid” while acting in a stage play will have a different appraisal from one who is told this in an occupational or family setting. Irrational cognitive appraisals that are semantically imprecise (“It’s awful that the driver didn’t signal the lane change. I can’t believe it!”) lead to increased anger, whereas accurate and precise thoughts reduce anger (“I don’t like it when other drivers don’t signal their lane changes. But that often happens, and I can adjust”). Triggers and appraisals thus combine to initiate the anger experience itself, which comprises physiological changes and involuntary bodily reactions (e.g., muscle tension and increased heart rate), as well as thoughts, images, and fantasies of revenge (“She made me furious … I can just see her gossiping about me now … I’d like to push her down the stairs”)...
eBook - ePub- David Conrad, Alan White(Authors)
- 2018(Publication Date)
- CRC Press(Publisher)
...Anger management is a form of counselling to help people cope with any angry feelings they may have that are affecting their health, work, social behaviour or personal relationships. WHO NEEDS ANGER MANAGEMENT? Men with anger issues will often believe that their anger is everyone else’s fault. It can therefore take others around him to make a man realise that he has an anger problem. Families, workmates or friends may start to let the man know that they are scared of him, perhaps because his behaviour spoils nights out, he’s aggressive or abusive towards his partner, he’s been a bit tough on the kids, or there have been incidents at work, on the sports field, or road rage. A man losing his temper is often a clue to other problems – especially stress, and that feeling of being on the edge is common. It could also be that current life events, such as bereavement, relationship problems or trauma through accidents, have impacted in a way to cause a manifestation of powerful feelings. Painful memories and experiences from a man’s past or childhood can be ‘tapped into’ or repressed, and destructive anger ‘acted out’. Admitting that there’s a problem is the first step; deciding to get help can be another huge step. It is well known that many men find it difficult to ask for help and it is often a point of crisis that propels a man to seek help. ASKING FOR HELP Asking for help about anything can be difficult for many men – it puts them in a position of admitting vulnerability and feeling that it’s a sign of weakness. This is tied into the way men ‘do’ shame, embarrassment, fear of consequences, fear of being judged, denial, minimisation, collusion – ‘it’s not a problem’. When men do ask for help, often the first stop is their local health centre – the GP and other health professionals...
eBook - ePubAnger Disorders
Definition, Diagnosis, And Treatment
- Howard Kassinove, Howard Kassinove(Authors)
- 2014(Publication Date)
- Taylor & Francis(Publisher)
...Anger too may be the concomitant of an individual’s violent or destructive behavior (e.g., child or spouse abuse). Intervention should shift to the immediate control of the violent behavior first to protect the welfare of the individual or others. Anger management may be relevant as part of therapy, but is not likely to be the full answer. However, the clinician should be aware that such individuals may seek anger-reduction therapy to reduce the vocational, social, or legal consequences for current or past violent, destructive behavior, and may not be really invested in changing anger per se. In summary, it is important for the clinician to resist making anger the automatic target of intervention. Differential diagnosis, alternative conceptualizations and treatment plans, referral, and/or crisis intervention may be more relevant for some cases. THE ANGRY CLIENT WHO IS NOT READY FOR THERAPY: ENHANCING READINESS As noted previously, not all angry individuals enter therapy for the treatment of anger. This section identifies common themes that interfere with the identification and owning of anger as a personal problem and suggests strategies for enhancing readiness. Lack of Awareness Many angry individuals are relatively out of touch with their feelings and the ways in which they are expressed. This is not to suggest that they are highly defensive, which they may in fact be, but that they have little self-awareness of and insight into their feelings and their expression. They simply do not know how different their experience and expression patterns are from the norm. Self-monitoring is a basic strategy to help such individuals. The format should be flexible and tailored to the individual, but, over time, should include tracking of affect, physiological reactions, self-talk, imagery, memories and associations, behavioral reactions, and the contexts in which these occur...
eBook - ePubAnger Management
A Practical Guide for Teachers
- Adrian Faupel, Elizabeth Herrick, Peter M. Sharp(Authors)
- 2017(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...Crucially, then, there is a need for parents and teachers to work consciously on the management of their own anger in order to become good role models for children and young people. In turn, they will be better-placed to help children and young people work through their anger, and ultimately this will become a virtuous circle of improvement. Turning this round is a large part of what this book is about. As regards anger management, the contributions of positive psychology suggest that we move from concentrating only on people with problem anger and refocus on supporting the development of all children and young people, to ensure successful transition from childhood to adulthood negotiating adolescence successfully along the way. Summary ● What we do with anger will depend on: – learned responses – belief systems – unconscious motivators – individual differences. ● We may deal with our own anger in one of the following ways: – displacement – repression – suppression – ineffective expression (problem anger) – effective expression (normal anger). ● There are clear benefits to focusing on applying positive psychology, including developing learned optimism and promoting authentic happiness in schools and families, especially through practices designed to foster forgiveness, gratitude and compassion, (see Chapter 7). p.33 Action Consider your own style of anger by completing the following checklist: When I am angry, I — [tick one box for each response]: p.34 Score your responses by putting a circle round a number, depending on whether you ticked a, b, c or d. Add up your score. Scores between 31 and 40 suggest that your own responses to anger may be ineffective as they lack control. Responses between 10 and 19 suggest that your responses may be suppressed or repressed. They do not lack control but may lead to ‘leaked feelings’ and are unlikely to be helpful in getting your needs met...
eBook - ePubThe Everything Guide to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Learn Positive and Mindful Techniques to Change Negative Behaviors
- Ellen Bowers(Author)
- 2013(Publication Date)
- Everything(Publisher)
...These groups can be found in mental health centers, churches, counseling practices, and twelve-step centers. Many such groups will be offered at a minimal cost. Draw upon your spiritual beliefs to sustain you during your times of lack of control. Again, breathe deeply, and ask for divine guidance, support, and sustenance, however you imagine that entity existing and taking care of you. Ask for help in getting through that difficult moment and for the underlying destructive patterns of thinking and feeling to be removed and released. Keep a Log Some CBT therapists suggest that the habitually angry person closely examine happenings throughout the days and weeks that seem to precipitate angry outbursts. It is common for angry people to not really understand the nature of their emotions and behavioral patterns. Some items to note in such a log could include the following: What event happened? What was your reaction? Are there memories or triggers for the reaction? What are you thinking while you are angry? How did you handle this situation? Do you always respond in the same way? Why or why not? What is the response of other people when you are angry? This type of record-keeping enables you to look at exactly what is happening so you can see the patterns. Then you have the power to change the patterns. This work is like a puzzle. You look at the parts and notice how they fit together. You may not like the overall picture and alter the parts so the completed picture is something new. Relaxation Skill Sometimes anger management includes learning to physically and emotionally relax so the intensity of a raging situation is diffused. You can learn to instantly relax various muscle groups in your body, focusing emotionally on something quite beautiful, such as a flower or a beautiful lake, and continuing to breathe deeply from the abdomen. The raging incident may thus be averted. You can learn in a practical manner not to shout, shove, or hit people...
eBook - ePubInnovative Mental Health Interventions for Children
Programs That Work
- Steven I Pfeiffer, Linda A Reddy(Authors)
- 2014(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...Because of the significant improvements found in these studies, a task force of the American Psychological Association has identified the Anger Coping Program as one of the ten probably efficacious treatments for child and adolescent conduct problems (Brestan & Eyberg, 1998). As a result, a workshop on the Anger Coping program was presented at The Niagara Conference on Evidence-Based Treatments for Childhood Mental Health Problems in the summer of 1999. Over the past 20 years a number of similar workshops have been provided nationally on the Anger Coping Program to mental health clinicians, school counselors and school psychologists, and juvenile corrections staff. Successful large-scale implementations of the program have taken place in school systems in several counties, including Wake and Guilford counties in North Carolina. In the Wake County implementation, groups in 40 schools were conducted with over 200 children, and a local program evaluation found that children who had been in the program had reduced levels of aggressive behavior, improved problem-solving skills and improved academic achievement following their involvement in the program. These dissemination efforts have suggested that local staff in agencies and schools can usefully implement the Anger Coping program. Grant-funded intervention research is currently being conducted on an expanded version of the Anger Coping Program. This expanded version is the Coping Power Program, which consists of a 33-session group intervention for children and a 16-session parent group intervention (Lochman & Wells, 1996). This program is typically offered over a 15 to 18 month period of time, and is particularly directed towards children making the transition from elementary to middle school...
