Anger Management Treatment (Adult)

The Anderson & Anderson Anger Management Curriculum aims to provide skill enhancement in self-awareness, self-control, social awareness, and relationship management. The curriculum provides education for people who are interested in or who need to learn how to deal with their anger or someone else's anger in a positive, functional way. Participants may include people who internalize anger as well as those who act it out verbally or behaviorally towards friends, family, work, or personal relationships.

Century Anger Management Model of Intervention teaches eight essential tools of anger control to participants, usually in a class or group format. It is a highly structured 10-hour core program around the program's workbook titled Anger Management for the Twenty-First Century. Usually, the classes are held on a weekly basis for one hour each, although accelerated weekend intensive programs are offered. All participants are provided with this workbook (separate workbooks are available for adults and adolescents) which provides many worksheets and questionnaires to personalize and apply the tools of anger control in their daily lives. Participants are also encouraged to practice the tools between sessions and then briefly share their progress or challenges with the rest of the class. A certificate is issued at the completion of the program. Graduates are invited to return to future classes for a free "tune-up," if needed.

F4C is an individual clinical intervention for fathers who have used violence with their partners and/or children and may have co-occurring substance misuse. F4C addresses 9 individually focused core topics, 4 co-parent communication topics, and 5 father-child focused topics in 60-minute individual therapy sessions over 18-24 weeks. In the context of a strong working alliance developed through focus on fatherhood, F4C employs a continual emphasis on reflective functioning and emotion regulation skills. Improvement in these targets in turn leads to reduced IPV and child maltreatment. F4C motivates the father to change by continually recognizing his desire to be a better parent and facilitating his ability to reflect on the experiences of his co-parent and children and learn skills to manage his emotions to improve outcomes for his family. It offers optional coparent and child participation in some sessions of the intervention when deemed appropriate and safe by the treating therapist.

The book, Creative Anger: Putting that Powerful Emotion to Good Use and the RETHINK workbooks provide seven skills to help each person learn to manage their anger and use this powerful emotion to build good, loving, and productive relationships. The program follows this premise: – Anger, hardwired into our brains for protection, is the more misunderstood emotion. It contains a paradox. Anger out of control destroys, yet anger, when understood and controlled, is a constructive force and can be used for creativity, change, and growth.

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is an approach to psychology that focuses on how one’s beliefs and emotions can affect one’s behavior and well-being.

REBT is the original form and one of the main pillars of cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT). Alongside with the cognitive therapy (CT), it served as the basis for the development of CBT. In REBT, irrational beliefs are considered central factors of emotional distress, so the focus is on changing irrational beliefs into rational beliefs, with the aim of changing dysfunctional emotions (such as unhealthy anger) and maladaptive behaviors into functional and adaptive ones. The REBT protocols are similar in structure to other CBT approaches (e.g., CT protocols), the main difference relying in the targeted beliefs: REBT specifically focuses on evaluative beliefs, (appraisals) and not inferential or descriptive ones.

The Real Solution Anger Management Program aims to reduce levels of anger in provocative situations. Participants are taught coping behaviors to stop escalation and resolve conflicts. Homework assignments that build on newly taught skills allow participants to apply them. The program employs the three major anger control interventions by using model presentation, rehearsal, and positive feedback and prompting.

Given the developing knowledge in the anger treatment area, the wide variability of client characteristics and the varied settings in which anger treatment is delivered The Practitioner's Guide to Anger Management: Customizable Interventions, Treatments, and Tools for Clients with Problem Anger program is organized according to a modular, customizable, menu-based approach. The treatment program has eight parts:

• Basic knowledge for practitioners
• Case formulation and treatment planning
• Preparing clients for change
• Interventions to alter anger triggers
• Interventions to change thoughts
• Interventions to alter internal experiences and urges
• Interventions to alter anger expression
• Enhancing happiness

The What's Good About Anger? program offers groups and programs for individuals who are personally motivated to learn skills for controlling anger or who are mandated by employers, courts, schools or other institutions to complete anger management treatment and programs. The What's Good About Anger? program is based on the What's Good About Anger? expanded 16-lesson book/workbooks for adults, teens, and couples.