Photograph by Bill Wight
Overview of Anger Management Treatment
- Events & Cues: Understanding Anger
- Anger Control Plans
- The Aggression Cycle
- Cognitive Restructuring
- Review 1: Processing & Discussion
- Part 1: Assertiveness Training & Conflict Resolution
- Part 2: Assertiveness Training & Conflict Resolution
- Part 1: Anger and the Family / Past & Present
- Part 2: Anger and the Family / Past & Present
- Review 2: Processing & Discussion
- Closing / Certification
Anger Management Program
The *Anger Management Program requires a registration - intake session and 12 sessions (or as required by court order) of anger management groups that encourage self improvement by helping participants think through and explore thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to acting out and displacement of anger and aggression. Participants are encouraged to identify and accept responsibility for their behavior, think through consequences, and re-direct impulsive urges. This program is a cognitive behavioral therapy toolbox approach that employs cognitive restructuring, communication skills building, and emotional control techniques to neutralize and redirect aggressive impulses and behaviors. This program is suitable for adult males and females. Root-cause factors and influences such as substance abuse, family problems, stress, financial difficulty, infidelity, and power – control tactics in relationships will be presented and discussed to help participants work through personal issues that trigger acting out behavior and maladaptive coping.
*Anger Management Programming is based on: Reilly PM and Shopshire MS. Anger Management for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Clients: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Manuel. DHHS Pub. No. (SMA) 02-3661. Rockville, MD: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2002.