A Comparison of the Emotion-Focused and Cognitive Behavioral Theories of Anger and Its Treatment.

Sprague and Thyer (2003) cite a study that used anger management training to help reduce adolescent outbursts and increase communication skills among peers and adults. Similar anger management and communication skill training with Miss Jones is intended to meet Ms. Wilson’s goal of

Client 2 had small changes from the baseline to intervention (Gliner, Harmon, & Morgan, 2000). Client 3 showed improvement in the baseline and invention (Gliner, Harmon, & Morgan, 2000). Client 4 showed there were slight improvement from baseline to intervention (Gliner, Harmon, & Morgan, 2000). Client 5 had overall improvement. Client 6 had minimal change from baseline to intervention (Gliner, Harmon, & Morgan, 2000). Client 7 showed improvement from baseline to intervention. Client 8 showed great improvement (Gliner, Harmon, & Morgan, 2000). Based on the high anger control scale scores the students that receive anger control training have shown patterns of improvement (Gliner, Harmon, & Morgan,

Anger in a business setting can cause one to act inappropriately or unwisely by blowing an incident out of proportion and possibly irrevocably damaging a career. Learning that at any moment we have the ability to consciously control our anger is empowering but not that easy to accomplish. Goleman asserts the body’s chemical reaction to stressful situations, relating back to our ancient ancestors, is the reason for this difficulty. The introduction of hormones into the body is not a gradual elevation, but a quick release relating back to our basic fight or flight response to environmental dangers. Every day, hormones are incrementally released into the body with each passing taxing stressful episode until a level is reached that triggers anger. He offers two weapons against anger outbursts. The first is method is to recognize, as early as possible, what is triggering the anger. This disruption of the anger

Process Experiential Emotion-Focused Therapy (PEEFT) is an approach used to improve the regulation, expression, acceptance, integration and transformation of emotional experiences. Emotions govern the way we interact with the world around us and serve as the primary driver of decision making, allowing us to identify potential risk and understanding personal needs and desires. The process of Emotion Focused therapy (EFT) is essentially to improve overall emotional intelligence by working with the clients current emotional experiences, understanding maladaptive emotional scheme that may be preventing the clients personal growth and impeding on their everyday life and experiencing. The EFT therapist guides the client through a process of awareness and expression of emotions that can then be understood, reflected upon, integrated and transformed to add meaning to their personal experiences.

The group the facilitator will be observing is an anger management group that is held Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at Assurance of Hope Institute, Inc. The group consist of twelve men between the ages of twenty-five to forty-five. The group contains ten African American men and two Caucasian men. The group has been meeting three times a week for four months. The group is an open group that is available to all young adult men particularly those suffering from mental health illness. The clients whom attend the group have been either court mandated because of a violent encounter. The group discusses triggers that make one anger, ways to manage your anger, decrease overall intensity and frequency of angry feelings, increase ability to recognize and appropriately express feelings as they occur, identify situations, thoughts, feelings, that trigger anger, angry verbal and/ or behavioral actions and the targets of those actions. The facilitators of the group have explored family background and history to

QP provided Nasir with a CBT activity geared towards anger reducing techniques. QP explained to Nasir that the activity will examine and teach him strategies for reducing and controlling his anger and how he responds to anger situations. QP brainstormed with Nasir some anger calming techniques. QP examined with Nasir, how he deals with anger situations. QP asked Nasir to list some things that make him angry. QP discussed with Nasir different anger reducing techniques. QP practice with Nasir deep breathing technique. QP asked Nasir to list some things that can distract him form anger triggering thoughts. QP pointed out to Nasir that when a person cannot control their anger they make the situation worst, get into fights and behave reckless that

1. A researcher is interested in comparing the effectiveness of three different kinds of therapy for anger problems. Eight participants are randomly assigned to three treatment conditions: Cognitive Therapy (CT), Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Interpersonal Therapy (IT). All participants complete the weekly treatment for 8 weeks. Participants take an anger test before and after the 8-week treatments. Each participant’s difference score (= anger score after the treatment minus (–) anger score before the treatment) is shown in the following table. The three therapists in this experiment have equal educational levels and clinical experiences.

QP asked Quadir to examine the questions such as, “why do I like things to always go my way, is it to my advantage to become upset or to express my anger and rage to others and what can I do to handle my anger better”. QP discussed with Quadir, how to keep track of his anger responses. QP examined with Quadir anger thoughts that helps to escalates anger responses in people. QP asked Quadir to rate his response to anger on a scale of 1 to 10. QP practice with Quadir exercise for overcoming anger. QP asked Quadir to identify the things he can control when he get angry. QP asked Quadir to explain, what he could have done differently in his last anger outburst. QP asked Quadir, to explain in his last angry outburst, if he was choose his reaction to the situation or her responded too quickly without thinking about the consequences or the outcome. QP discussed with Quadir, how to put anger into prospective. QP examine with Quadir the advantage and disadvantages of holding on to anger. QP assisted Quadir in identifying affirmation that can help with anger triggers. QP practice with Quadir the “I statement” and positive self-talk that can help in anger

Utilizing strategies and techniques to effectively manage anger can be difficult, the lack of anger management can result in serious consequences. The literature suggest that problems related to anger and aggression can cause difficulty in many areas of life. In addition, it can cause impaired functionality for

The interventions I decided to include in Precious’ treatment plan are; take 5 deep breathes, exercise daily, think before acting/speaking, think of a happy place/time to address the anger and acting out behaviors that Precious exhibits. Through these interventions I would like Precious to be able to achieve the goal of being able to increase and practice the ability to manage her anger. I chose these interventions because I have implemented in the past with other clients. The article “Principles of Empirically Supported Interventions Applied to Anger Management” by Deffenbacher, Oetting, Digiuseppe (2002), lists these and other methods to handle and process anger appropriately. The journal article explains why these methods are

Single Case Design Angela Permenter Barry University SW 685   Abstract This study examines to effect Solution focused brief therapy has on an adolescence with anger issues. It is hypothesized that through SFBT the client is able to decrease the amount of negative interaction experienced and increase the amount of skills need to maintain a well-balanced lifestyle. Counselors will examine every aspect of client’s life as it pertains to the outcome of controlling anger outburst.

Individual displays regression with anger management due to individual has makes anger outbursts as evidence of therapist observation.

Anger experience is a basic emotion which predisposes sense of threat and negative appraisal (Oatley, 1992). These experiences and cognitive appraisals activate or increases anger rumination (Rusting & Nolen-Hoeksema, 1998). Repetitively unavoidable thinking about anger-provoking experiences has been considered as the main characteristic of anger rumination (Sukhodolosky et al., 2001; Watkins, 2004) affects mental health indicators. Thus, it can be said that anger decreases psychological well-being and on the other hand increases psychological distress through activating and increasing anger rumination.

Affect Regulation Therapy (ART) can also influence affect regulation because it helps with regulation of fight, flight, and freeze defensive mechanisms which results in the improvement of mood, in affect regulation and personality function, cognitive functioning, one’s learning capacity, and resilience to stressful situations. ART objective is to improve an individual's ability to generate a suitable emotional response to any given situation (Schore & Schore,

The most effective and lasting treatments is that of a combination of working to improve one?s self-esteem along with learning techniques to manage anger. All too often, however, when people seek therapy of enter into anger management classes, self-esteem is not even discussed.