Summary: <p>Anger Management 2<br> Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes<br> Executive Director, AllCEUs</p> <p>Counseling Continuing Education Course can be purchased for this at <a href="https://www.allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/581/c/">https://www.allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/581/c/</a></p> <p>Objectives<br> ~ Explore multiple skills necessary for Anger Management<br> ~ Mindful self-awareness<br> ~ Distress tolerance<br> ~ Values clarification/Goal setting<br> ~ Motivational enhancement skills<br> ~ Cognitive behavioral skills<br> ~ Cognitive processing skills<br> ~ Communication skills<br> ~ Compassion focused skills<br> ~ Self-esteem building skills<br> ~ Wellness skills (Vulnerability identification and prevention)<br> Mindful Self-Awareness<br> ~ Becoming aware of your physical, emotional and mental state in the present moment by<br> ~ Doing regular mindfulness minutes<br> ~ Identifying your vulnerabilities and adjusting accordingly<br> ~ Learning to identify the components of your feelings’<br> ~ Emotional<br> ~ Thoughts<br> ~ Physical sensations<br> ~ Behavioral urges</p> <p>Distress Tolerance<br> ~ Distract don’t react<br> ~ Ride the wave<br> ~ Positive coping thoughts or affirmations<br> ~ Mindful breathing<br> ~ Do the opposite<br> ~ Sublimation</p> <p>Values Clarification/Goal Setting<br> ~ What are your values…things you want to be known for? (compassion, creativity, loyalty, patience, tolerance, determination, honesty, faithfulness, courage, optimism, integrity)<br> ~ In your relationships with others<br> ~ In your work<br> ~ What is important to you…<br> ~ In 5 years what do you need to have to be content?<br> ~ Alternate exercise: What 20 things do you need to be happy… Eliminate until 2 things at a time until there are 6 left</p> <p>Acceptance and Commitment Interventions<br> ~ Ask why does client consider anger to be a problem?<br> ~ Determine if anger is part of experiential avoidance<br> ~ Determine if anger is ‘instrumental’ – ie to manipulate others<br> ~ Distinguish feeling angry from acting aggressively<br> ~ Increase body awareness: mindfulness of physical sensations that indicate anger is rising.<br> ~ Defusion around unhelpful cognitions that feed anger or justify aggressive behavior.<br> ~ Increase awareness of anger triggers<br> ~ Learn to ‘surf’ anger.<br> ~ Connect with values: what sort of partner/parent/ friend/ worker do you want to be?<br> ~ Imaginary and in vivo rehearsal of values-consistent responses</p> <p>Motivational Enhancement<br> CBT<br> ~ Cognitive Distortions and Unhelpful Thoughts<br> ~ All or Nothing<br> ~ Feelings are facts<br> ~ Tunnel vision<br> ~ Personalization<br> ~ Magnification<br> ~ Fallacy of fairness<br> ~ ABCs<br> ~ Activating Event<br> ~ Beliefs<br> ~ Consequences<br> ~ Dispute unhelpful beliefs<br> ~ Evaluate the best use of your energy</p> <p>CPT<br> ~ Play out the tape…<br> ~ X happened and I got angry because…. which is related to which threat (rejection, failure, loss of control, the unknown)<br> ~ What is the evidence for and against<br> ~ Do I have tunnel vision/focused on just one aspect<br> ~ How might I have caused or contributed to the event<br> ~ What else might have contributed to the other person’s reaction<br> ~ Am I using all or none terms<br> ~ Am I confusing something that is possible with something that is likely?<br> ~ Are your reactions based on feelings or facts?<br> Communication<br> ~ Stay seated or both people go on a walk side by side<br> ~ One person talks at a time<br> ~ Person 1 states her position<br> ~ Person 2 listens and paraphrases what she think she heard<br> ~ Person 1 con</p>
