Anger Management Trainer & Specialist DVD Home-Study Program & Certification

Anger Management Trainer-Specialist Certification Course with Adult Anger Management Curriculum

For counselors, professionals, educators, leaders, law enforcement or probation officers and others who desire to teach and coach individuals and groups in anger management.

This revised Trainer's anger management course for community groups is based on the 2012 edition of What’s Good About Anger? Putting Your Anger to Work for Good. This course is a self-study and includes DVD training, the expanded 2010 book, revised Trainer's manual and 4 DVDs (live workshops).

Certificate is awarded upon successful completion of quizzes and the evaluation. Approved for 15 CEs by NBCC (NAADAC) and 12 CEUs by IAODAPCA - program # 10719 for: Counselor II, Prevention II, Assessor II, MISA I or II, CCJP II, PCGC II, CAAP II, CRSS I or II, BRI II, MAATP II, CFPP II, CADC, CRADC, CSADC, CAADC.

The Anger Management Institute offers training and certification for counselors, pastors, leaders in anger management. Courts, employers, schools and correctional facilities have been accepting and recognizing the What’s Good About Anger? certificate courses and trainers classes throughout the USA since 2002. Order the phone supervision sessions to qualify as an Anger Management Specialist-1 or II with the National Anger Management Association (NAMA membership fee is additional).

This curriculum includes almost 8 hours of live training from actual 2-day Trainer Workshops! This new training program includes a 12-week leader's guide with expanded teaching points and insights on anger and stress management, assertiveness, conflict management, emotional intelligence, empathy skills, spiritual insights and other helpful resources/interventions. Tools included: CD with power point presentation; DVD (65 min); anger management evaluation, assessments, progress report and inventories! The manual covers the following:

• Leader’s Introduction and Guide to Leading a group: Safety, Group Guidelines, Physiological Mechanism in Anger Arousal
• Qualifications for Leaders
• Identifying Triggers and Underlying Causes of anger
• Evaluation of Participants and Clients: through Assessment, Intake and Progress Forms
• Useful inventories to assess assertiveness and empathy skills and levels of stress.
• Central Issues for Helping People: Identifying Symptoms,
• Encouragement Skills, Assisting with Key Questions, Dealing with False Beliefs, Providing Options for Change
• Confidentiality, Legal and Ethical guidelines
• Identifying When to Refer
• Leader’s Twelve Session Community Guide with teaching points and foundational principles in anger management for individuals, classes and groups
• Cognitive Distortions; Restructuring Thinking
• Turning Anger into Assertiveness, Problem-solving, Conflict Management and Forgiveness.
• Managing Behavior and hostility in Groups
• Stress Management and Relaxation skills
• Helping People Implement a Strategy for Change: Applying Assignments and Principles
Treatment Planning for Anger Control Problems
• Use of Assessments and Inventories

DVD Training: Almost 8 hours of the Anger Management Trainer Workshop video with NAMA approved Anger Management Supervisors, Consultants, Diplomates & Certified Anger Management Specialist-IV: James Bedell, PsyD, Steve Yeschek, LCSW and Lynette Hoy, NCC, LCPC. The Trainer’s course and DVDs are based on the 2012 What’s Good About Anger? Putting Your Anger to Work for Good book and Trainer’s manuals and Dr. Gary Gintner’s Behavioral Anger Reduction Kit.

You will receive a more in-depth understanding of the causes of anger, training skills to help others manage anger, foundational insights and skills for teaching anger, stress and conflict management, the 2012 Third Edition of: What’s Good About Anger? Putting Your Anger to Work for Good, training manual and the certificate of completion upon successful completion of quizzes and evaluation.

Certified Trainers of the distance-learning programs then qualify to become members of the National Anger Management Association (NAMA membership fee $100.00) and receive the designation of Anger Management Specialist-1 or II after 4 phone training sessions (see extra fee above) with Lynette Hoy or Steve Yeschek, NAMA Supervisors.