Program Goals
Our goals for each client who attends the Anger Management program are:
- To understand the difference between anger as an emotion and angry behavior which leads to harmful choices towards yourself and others
- To understand negative self-talk and how such thoughts work to escalate emotions and choices
- To demonstrate the ability to prevent anger from building by monitoring thoughts
- To demonstrate knowledge of how to contain anger in the moment and how to calm down and make choices that are not harmful to yourself and/or others
- To understand where your anger comes from and what situations you use to give yourself an excuse to hurt yourself and/or others
- To learn conflict resolution skills and practice them during sessions
- To start to understand how to make amends for choices made out of anger and negative self-talk
- To start to learn how to reduce anger and build values and meaning in life that are not dependent on anger
Program Exercises
The Anger Management Program at Emerge consists of 14 sessions, divided as follows:
- One session reviewing the program workbook, discussing the activities involved in the program, and discussing an initial educational lesson.
- Four sessions discussing the concept of “Prevention.” These sessions focus on changing thoughts to prevent a harmful reaction to anger.
- Four sessions discussing the concept of “Containment.” These sessions focus on how to stop anger from escalating to an unmanageable level.
- Four sessions discussing the concept of “Resolution.” These sessions focus developing conflict resolution skills and making amends for angry behavior.
- One session of review and self-evaluation, reflecting on lessons learned and goals for the future.