52 week/hour Anger Management Certificate Course

52-week Anger Management Certificate Course

The 52-week course covers the following topics and goals:

In What's Good About Anger? co-authors Lynette Hoy and Ted Griffin teach how to decrease stress and turn anger into assertiveness, problem-solving, conflict management, empathy and forgiveness! Participants learn to identify the problem, power and process of anger (from annoyance to bitterness or rage); effective examples of "good anger"; and how research-based skills can effectively manage anger and be used to accomplish personal and relational goals.

Participants will gain a new perspective on anger, how to prevent flare-ups and how to better manage responses to provoking situations. Chronic anger can be costly - physically, emotionally and relationally. Most people can use their anger in appropriate ways in some situations, and yet can be ineffectual or harmful in other situations. Participation in this anger management course can reduce levels of anger, and help individuals learn ways to direct anger into healthy, effective coping behaviors to stop escalation and to resolve conflicts.

Logging anger, triggering situations and applying new approaches helps individuals to contain and manage anger. Goals: To reduce levels of anger in provocative situations. To learn effective coping behaviors in order to halt escalation of anger and to resolve conflicts. To maintain and consistently develop effective skills for managing anger.

Course Outline

Instructions

Lessons (each lesson equals one hour of course work):

Part One: Overview of Anger

1. Anger: friend or foe?
2. The Process of Anger - it’s triggers
3. What IS Good About Anger?
4. Defusing Anger by Managing Stress
5. Handling Anger Effectively
6. Anger and Assertiveness
7. Managing Conflict
8. Turn Your Anger into Forgiveness
9. When to Take a Time-Out
10. Plan to Change Your Life by Changing Your Thinking

Part Two: Building Personal & Relationship Skills to Drain Anger

11. Empathy and Emotional Intelligence
12. Building Successful Relationships
13. Case Study Application
14. Reinterpreting Judgments and Expectations
15. Choosing Behavior Alternatives
16. Assertiveness Skills and The ASERT Approach

Part Three: Managing Conflict and Anger – Not People

17. Evaluating Your Conflict Style
18. What’s Good About Conflict?
19. Keys to Collaboration
20. Stopping Aggression
21. Winning or Resolving Conflict Amicably?
22. Applying the SUM-UP and CONNECT Skills
23. Control Issues – Take Responsibility
24. Stress Inventory and Personal Adjustment Evaluation
25. Stress Relievers
26. Conflict and Control Issues

Part Four: Building on the Basics of Anger Management

Lessons (each lesson equals one hour of course work):

27. Reviewing the Process of Anger
28. What IS Good About Anger?
29. Defusing Anger Managing Stress: Part 2
30. Handling Anger Effectively: Part 2
31. Evaluating Your Progress
32. How Motivation Impacts Lasting Anger Management
33. Stop Blaming - Accept Responsibility
34. Changing Angry Thinking

Part Five: Developing Behavioral and Relational Insights and Strategies for Anger Management

35. Relaxation Skills to Break Anger’s Escalation
36. The Effect of Expectations on Anger
37. Managing Self-Esteem Issues
38. Facing the Consequences of Anger
39. Responding to Someone Else’s anger
40. Screening for Emotional Intelligence
41. Forgiveness - Where Anger Ends
42. Positive Thinking and Self-talk
43. Developing Interpersonal Communication and Conflict Resolution
44. Building Empathy Skills: Part Two
45. Learning from Anger
46. Measuring Your Anger Management Progress
47. De-escalating a Confrontation
48. Negotiate to Win-Win
49. Anger Can Be a Mask
50. Building Healthier Relationships
51. Increasing Self-Control and Anger Management Skills
52. Turning It Over to Your Higher Power

Forms: Anger Survey

Anger Management Progress Report

Empathy Inventory

It is your responsibility to confirm with the judge or your attorney as to whether a distance-learning anger management program will meet the court requirement.