Anger Case Studies

Our emotions affect us in so many ways. Emotions affect the way we behave, our views and opinions, our relationships and our decision-making; therefore, they are very relevant to our day-to-day lives. It is important that people have an understanding of these emotions and that they are able to interpret them. Emotions can both help and hinder our ability to best live our lives. It is also important to realize that even our emotions are shaped and biased by our environment and those close to us.

This all started with her stepfather abusing and attempting to rape her, which resulted depression and mental issues from the said event.

Mary, a 31-year-old single mother of three children (ages 9, 5, and 3) has been seeing Annabelle, a mental health counselor at a community mental health center for about 4 months. She has become increasingly anxious over past few weeks and reports that she feels frightened all the time, is unable to sleep through the night, and worries that “something horrible is going to happen.” She also admits to having a “couple of drinks” during the evening several times a week. Mary shared during her last session with Annabelle that she is very worried that she is a horrible mother and is afraid that her children will be taken away and placed in foster care.

Paulette Jones has been experiencing many changes consistently with her health, which has affected her outlook on life. Paulette is constantly depress and worries if people accept her for who she is because her physical appearance has changed. The person she once was has disappeared. It is very rare that I get to see her happy, outgoing, spontaneous, and adventurous. She has recently visited here in Ga, and many of times I would walk pass and see her looking in the mirror at herself crying. Sometimes she appear happy, however deep down inside I can see her suffering as she wonders why she is on an endless downward spiral of life. It is very hard to look and hear my niece in such disarray on a continuous

My approach and interaction with the family was through an existing relationship with their daughter Amanda. Amanda Barnes is a 15 year old that was introduced to the family at age two. After living with the Barnes’s for more than 2 years as their foster child and not having any contact with her biological parents, Amanda adopted by the family. Amanda has been diagnosed with a series of behavioral problems that stemmed from her biological mother’s substance abuse use. During one of our many conversations, she has repeatedly talked about feeling depressed and disliking herself. She has also expressed concerns that her parents do not believe that these feelings are real or important.

In the article, I found that the most striking thing about the reading is that it is all true. Building up anger from past events and never learning to forgive and forget can take a major toll on your mind physically. Keeping the anger inside does really make you one with anger because that is how you will think for any negative situation for the rest of your life unless you decide to change the way you look at things. Having that negative outlook on how the enemy is and not how you could be past the whole situation is terrible, but that is how people are. Some do eventually learn to forgive others, and it lightens their life enormously; whereas, others don’t and they just have a negative lifestyle. It is very meaningful to mean because I can now identify that I am one of those people and I need to get things straight when being negative about the enemy and past events.

Presenting problem. Will had issues being able to control his anger and aggression. these problems were the result of childhood trauma and the belief he had to defend his turf. Will’s anger is evident from his arrest record and how he uses his intelligent to verbally demean people. Will possessed the vocabulary, knowledge, and skill to connect various aspects of a topic and articulate it in a way to make the other person look incompetent. This was evident at the bar during an interview where be articulated why working at an intelligence agency could inadvertently harm his friends working as labors.

The novella Anger, is about a Haitian family tragedy in the Turgeau neighborhood of Port-au-Prince because this family is taken over its property by the authorities. This is a relevant aspect in the novella because it has a reference to Duvalier's Tonton Macoutes forces.The main characters in this novella are the black grandfather, his son, the son's mulatto wife, and their three children. Throughout the entire novella, the grandfather struggles to find a way to liberate his family from the authorities possession. This point is so important in this novella due to the undemocratic land properties rights and kidnappings events that characterized Duvalier's dictatorship. That is why I have the impression that Marie Chauveux uses the Novella of Anger as a response to the social crisis against Duvalier authority. Since the poor society is scared of striking to defend its human rights. That is why Chauveaut throughout this novella reflects out the social conflicts that affects people of color including, skin color complexities, prejudice, race, and sexism. These themes form the

There is often a certain knee-jerk reaction to hearing an opinion you don't agree with: anger. See also: disgust, contempt, bitterness. It's simple to get angry at your friend when you find out she doesn't hold the same stance on gun control you do. It's easy to get into an argument with your classmate when he denounces feminism. And while some anger is justified in these matters, holding onto it does neither party any good. Especially in times like these, with tensions running high and hatred prevalent, being angry at others for thinking differently is, ironically, what we are so hotly denouncing. It's superfluous to get mad at someone you consider "close minded" when you close your mind to their opinions and ideas. I used to anger at any

I have known Jessica Walker for about 2 years, she started dating my son and I could see that Jess came from a dysfunctional family almost immediately. She seemed distant and had a very hard time feeling comfortable around our family because we are a pretty close and loving family. As I have gotten to know her, which has been difficult because she wouldn 't let us in, she has opened up about her family situation and her relationship with her mother. Her father passed away when she was eight-teen, so her mom has probably been the biggest influence in her life. From what I can tell it has been unfortunate because her mother is emotionally and mentally abusive to her. The emotional games her mother plays with her has caused a great deal of anxiety for Jess. She loses sleep over things her mom does and says to her and becomes very emotional and cries frequently over the abuse. Jess currently works for her mother which just exacerbates the situation.

It is suggested by many that the main social function of anger is to change someone else’s behaviour in order to gain a better outcome for oneself (Fischer & Roseman, 2007). However, whether anger is a beneficial to us or not, is widely disputed (Fischer & Roseman, 2007). First, the social functionists’ perspective on the social function of anger will be discussed by evaluating Hutcherson & Gross study (2011). Furthermore, Choi and Murdock’s (2017) study on anger expression, interpersonal conflict and depression symptoms will be explained and evaluated by introducing Chue et al.’s (2017) findings. Finally it will be argued that anger can help to create and maintain a hierarchy within social groups by evaluating Callister, Geddes &

Sell et al. (2009) address the relationship of anger to the ability to inflict costs and confer benefits during negotiation through bargaining. This is assessed within the recalibrational theory of anger which theorises there is an evolutionarily derived anger system that is used in bargaining to gain favourable outcomes by incentivising others to re-assess the worth they place on the angry individual’s welfare. Welfare Trade Ratios (WTRs) compute how much worth is placed on the welfare of another compared to the self within the recalibrational theory. Anger works to gain the highest cost-effective WTR from others depending on bargaining position that is derived from an individual’s ability to inflict cost (through aggression) and

The most important theme here in that play is Anger and Violence, which clearly appeared throughout the whole play. An anger as an action is obviously appeared in the first scene when Stanley hits and throws a package of meat at Stella in the kitchen to cook, instead of handing it to her gently like men. This is an obvious violent exchange, in which it seems like their ordinary type of daily communication. Stanley also slaps Stella. When he slaps her that is attitude not to hurt her, but to show a kind of affection, Stella does not like the way he treats her, but she never stops him. Their communication is too violent through hitting, slapping, and throwing what a violent relationship they share! (Ehrenhaft 56).

Anger is a common reaction that can aid individuals in relieving stress, and expressing emotions. Experiencing anger is normal, and at times, the appropriate response. When accomplished appropriately, anger can be an important tool used by a healthy adult. But anger has risks, perhaps more than any other emotion, it can isolate people from other adults and lead individuals to engage in behavior they may later regret. Anger can be manifested through a variety of ways, including physical violence, verbal profanity and internal frustrations. Anger can be the result of sadness, fear, or an overall inability to effectively cope with the struggles of everyday life. Writer had the experience of interacting with a client, TR, who was in the middle of an anger outburst, due to behavior of a staff member.

Throughout this semester, I worked with my client, Chance Filiatre to try help him cope with his anger management issues. Chance is 19 years old and is in his third semester at Eastern Florida State College, taking four classes this semester. Chance graduated high school from Space Coast in 2016 and has been working at Dominos since March, 2017. Chance has to deal with lots of stress in his day to day life. Chance takes difficult classes at EFSC four days a week and has to work 5 nights a week. Often, Chance will be stuck at work until one in the morning just to go home to piles of homework and a stressful family life. At home, Chance lives with his mother, step-father and two step-siblings. He used to live with his sister before the