Anger Strategies: Practical Tools for Professionals Treating Anger

Anger Strategies is a valuable aid to counselors, mental health practitioners and health care providers who are working with clients whose anger is causing difficulties in significant areas of their lives. These difficulties may range from how they view and feel about themselves, to parenting skills, partner relationships, job performance, legal issues and overall health. Some clients may be in an anger management group due to domestic violence or other behaviors that have arisen from their inappropriate expression of anger. Others may be in individual, couples, or family therapy and their anger becomes identified as a crucial clinical issue. Irrespective of the manner in which clients have come to therapy, their anger has become distorted and twisted and is conveyed in ways that create shame and blame. The strategies in this book will assist in both motivation and change and can be used with individuals or groups. This workbook is composed of seven sections with 42 sessions containing didactic information, reproducible handouts and audio CD. Section titles are: Anger History Strategies Cognitive Strategies Behavioral Strategies Addiction Strategies Affective Strategies Spiritual Strategies Closing Strategies Handouts in the form of written exercises, checklists, sentence stems, structured dialogues and/or art activities are an integral part of this therapeutic process and are designed for clinicians to reproduce and use without restriction as to copyright permission. The audio CD, Imageries, offers structured meditations for recovery and contains four imageries: Relaxation Exercise, Inner Child Affirmation, Inner Source of Wisdom, and Letting Go and Receiving.