While it may b e logical to see stress as the cause of much anger, it is not the only cause. Reducing stress may not eliminate anger responses, and for that matter, stress itself can only be reduced and not eliminated. Stress is simply a part of life, and many stress reduction techniques recognize this fact and train people in how to cope with stress more than to eliminate it. Reducing stress is still a good beginning, but leaning to turn stress into a positive is a more valuable lesson.
Similarly, anger cannot be eliminated but can be turned to more positive consequences, and Anger Management Therapy attempts to achieve this by training the individual in how to handle anger and its causes both. To a degree, such training is similar to bio-feedback in that the individual becomes more aware of processes both physical and psychological as they are related to stressors and to the development of reactions such as anger. Such training also involves helping the individual to gain power over his or her own actions rapidly, teaching the individual to assess the situation quickly and to implement necessary means to control the response, to decide how to channel it, and then to act accordingly. The process is not treatment in the usual sense because it does not simply fix a problem. Instead, it teaches the individual how to handle a problem that will recur just as stress in.life will always recur. Recognizing that some things are worth getting angry about and some are not is only a beginning, for even when anger is justified, it needs to be controlled and channeled toward positive ends.
Anger Management trains the individual to achieve alone what may only be achieved in the beginning in a group setting, with a coach offering assistance and advice. The goal is for the individual to be able to manage his or her anger without such assistance and to do so before that anger leads to personal problems, bad behavior, violence, or self-destructive behavior.
Objectives
The objectives for this training is to reduce expressions of anger on the part of participants, to instruct them in how to cope with causes of anger, to show them how to assess and monitor their own reactions to various stressors and anger-inducers, to substitute positive behaviors for expressions of anger, and so to reduce anger-associated behaviors, from conflict with others to self-destructive behavior brought about by those who are acting out their anger. In the training, the objective is first to suggest to the participants how much damage their anger is doing to themselves and others and to use the group setting to get all student to participate in the process. The coach is used to train the students and guide the sessions, and the progression of the sessions is from showing these students the nature of the problem and how it manifests itself in their lives to assessing how well they are able to use what they have learned in their daily lives, without the need of the group or the coach in the future. The objective is to take the student from needing assistance to a state of autonomy in which he or she can control and manager their own anger at the time they are provoked.
Practical Considerations
Groups usually consists of five to eight persons at a time. A larger group might be less manageable and would not provide the one-on-one coaching that is usually needed. A smaller group would not provide the diversity of experience and of willingness to participate and learn that serves the needs of the group and of each individual member at the same time. In addition, time is usually a factor. Sufficient time is needed to train the students, but those students themselves usually do not have unlimited time and so need to be brought along as rapidly as possible without being shortchanged by the process. The eight weeks allotted for the program described below is sufficient to give the students the tools they need and to help them learn to use those tools without being so long that they get stale. Also, eight weeks fits into the time frame of the normal semester or quarter a group can be kept together.
Procedure
As noted, the procedure is to use a group setting to instruct and guide the students in the nature of Anger Management and in how they can make use of it to their advantage. The process also enlists the aid of each participant in helping and guiding one another, showing that they are not alone in this problem and using the success of one as a means of helping others succeed as well.
Weekly Interventions
Pre-Group Meeting
Week 1: Introduction:
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