How do I know if Anger Management Classes are going to help?
A more reliable answer is when the person attend a program with a Pre and Post Test, a clientwork, and an anger management curriculum that is offered by a Certified Anger Management Facilitator. For a list of Certified Anger Management Facilitators, click here www.aaamp.org. This is the website of the American Association of Anger Management Providers.
There are several studies that show the effectiveness of anger management but most of these studies focus on inmate populations and not the general public. In a recent survey given by our Agency to several hundred participants almost 96% of them stated they felt the anger management classes helped them improve their behavior and their relationships. The main criteria for our anger management classes to be effective are ones motivation to change. If there is little to no motivation to change, one will likely not benefit from taking any of our anger management classes or programs. If the participant recognizes that their behavior is problematic and they are seeking to learn how to improve it, our experience has been that anger management classes will help. Almost all of our interventions use evidenced based, empirically validated approaches.
