What is Anger Management?
Anger management generally targets externalised, as opposed to internalised, expressions of anger. That is, anger which is overt, disruptive, and noticeable to others. The purpose of standard anger management programs is for clients to react to life with minimal and appropriately expressed anger. Most programs use a group work model and employ a cognitive behavioural approach. This approach typically involves participants learning to: recognise trigger situations, change accompanying thought patterns and practise physical relaxation skills. These new responses are then rehearsed using role-plays, until they become automatic.
Anger Management is a course designed to provide Pre and Post Tests as well skill enhancement training for persons who score in the deficit range in stress management, anger management, assertive communication and empathy/emotional intelligence.
Certified Anger Management Facilitators are trained to offer non-psychiatric Emotional Intelligence Assessments prior to teaching the skills needed to master anger and increase Emotional Intelligence.
Anger Management classes include client workbooks, posters, CDs, DVDs and other ancillary material to teach skill enhancement is self-awareness, self-control, social awareness and relationship management. Following the completion of the course of coaching, a Post Test is administered in order to determine if the success or lack of success of each participant.
Anger management refers to therapeutic strategies that allow people to overcome excess feelings of anger, and to not act upon destructive impulses that anger may cause. Sometimes people have individual therapy sessions to work on anger management. In other cases, people may work in group therapy to assist them with anger management. Anger management therapy may be court-mandated, when a person is clearly in need of help to control feelings of rage. Some prisons have also begun anger management sessions to help criminals with violent pasts become free of anger driven behaviors. Frequently, people voluntarily participate in anger management classes or therapy, when they recognize that their behavior and reactions are well outside the normal range. The most popular anger management model at present is based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). In this method, those participating in therapy record moments when anger is at its greatest, identify feelings or “hot thoughts” that drive anger
