Anger Management

Anger Management Course

Learn to understand anger and explore techniques that can be useful in the management of anger.

• Study Anger Management at home
• Learn about what causes anger to develop
• Learn ways or reducing or controlling anger
• Expand your skills as a parent, teacher, manager, counsellor, coach or in any other capacity where anger can become an issue

Lesson Structure

There are 9 lessons in this course:

1. Nature and Scope of Anger
   • Introduction
   • The autonomic nervous system
   • Anger and arousal
   • Galvanic skin resistance
   • Voice stress analyser
   • Polygraph
   • Degrees of arousal
   • Difficulties of arousal theories
   • Theories of emotion
   • James Lange theory
   • Cannon Bard theory
   • Schachter's theory
   • Lazarus's appraisal theory
   • Weiner's attribution
   • Averill's social construction theory
   • Facial feedback theory
2. Managing Anger with Counselling
   • Causes of anger
   • Frustration
   • Breaking personal rules
   • Self defence
   • Expression of anger
   • Counselling strategies
   • Empty chair technique
   • Recognising psychological arousal
   • Thought stopping
   • Relaxation exercises
   • Progressive muscle relaxation
   • Time out
   • Assertiveness training
   • Three steps in assertiveness training
   • Five stage assertiveness training interview
   • Mental blocks to assertiveness
3. Managing Anger with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
   • Cognitive behavioural therapy
   • Identifying antecendents
   • Assessment of anger
   • Beginning therapy
   • Teaching CBT
   • Inferences
   • Evaluations
   • Chaining
   • Disputing inferences and evaluations
   • Independance and blocks to change
   • Use of imageryEmotional insight Exposure
   • Termination
   • Working with anger problems in CBT
   • Problems with CBT for anger management
4. Anger Management Techniques for Violence
   • Introduction
   • Anger and violence
   • Appearance
   • Posture
   • Affect
   • Speech
   • Causes of violence
   • Cold violence
   • Hot violence
   • Reactive violence
   • Tips for dealing with a violent client
   • Strategies for violence prevention
   • Action after violence
   • Managing violence against others
   • Mental disorders and violence
5. Anger Management for People with Mental Health Issues
   • DSM dimensions to diagnose mental illness
   • Dementia
   • Dementia and anger
   • Supporting clients with dementia
   • Grief
   • Anxiety
   • Depression
   • Stages of grief
   • Tasks of mourning
6. Managing Anger in Children and Adolescents
   • Introduction
   • Toddlers
   • Temper tantrums
   • Older children and anger
   • Adolescence
   • Psychological changes in girls
   • Psychological changes in boys
   • Depression
   • Eating problems
   • Adults sharing anger
7. Anger Management for People with Special Difficulties
   • People with personality disorders
   • Psychopathology
   • Borderline personality disorders and treatment
   • Psychopath and treatment
   • Roid rage, symptoms and abuse
8. Anger Management Services
   • Counselling
   • Anger management clinics
   • Courses and workshops
   • Group and individual work
   • Conflict management
   • Conflict handling techniques
   • Life coaching
   • Setting up an anger management consultancy
9. Deciding on a Course of Action
   • PBL Project to create and present a plan of anger management to support an individual experiencing serious anger difficulties.

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Aims

• Discuss the nature and scope of anger including psychological and physiological manifestations.
• Explain the biological, social and psychological causes of anger and the strategies used by counsellors to deal with the underlying causes in an effort to diffuse the build up of anger in people
• Explain how anger problems can be addressed through the application of cognitive behavioural counselling
• Discuss anger management techniques to diffuse violent outbursts and manage violence
• Consider anger management issues for people with specific mental health issues.
• Explain the causes of anger in children and adolescents, and review a wide range of techniques for addressing those issues.
• Determine the nature and scope of anger management services in society.
• Identify ways to support clients seeking anger management services
• Evaluate a situation where anger is becoming a problem and determine an appropriate course to follow in response to the problem.

What is Anger

Like many other emotions, it is very difficult to give a precise definition of anger. In general terms, what we can say is that it is a strong reaction to an array of different situations such as being attacked, being restrained, losing one’s job, and so forth. You can probably think of many other instances which make you angry.

A definition of anger also usually includes physical reactions to the anger-provoking stimuli. For instance, clenched fists, facial expressions, deep sighs, and so on are all possible physical reactions. Many of these are autonomic nervous system responses, especially from the subdivision known as the sympathetic division which is associated with preparing the body for action. Indeed, anger can manifest in an attack response in many species.

One of the difficulties in defining anger is that different researchers and authors might include other emotional reactions such as hatred, hostility and rage under their definition of anger.

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