In Control - Healthy Anger Expression- Instant Download Workbook

"IN-CONTROL: Healthy Anger Expression"

Professional Resource - Patient Education Client Workbook

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Manage Anger - Emotionally and Physically!

Finally! A to-the-point, easy to use workbook for helping all client populations understand and manage their anger and other distressing emotions.

Education sections spell out the necessary vital information, and non-threatening practical application worksheets help train and reinforce new healthy behaviors and make positive changes.

Written in plain language to ease comprehension and reduce resistance.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Part 1: Understanding Anger

Section 1: What is Anger ? -----------------------pages 1-2
Worksheet 1 ---------------------------------------page 3
Section 2: Physical Products of Anger -----------pages 4-5
Worksheet 2 ---------------------------------------page 6
Section 3: Handling Anger Producing Situations ----pages 7-8
Worksheet 3 ---------------------------------------page 9
Worksheet 4 ---------------------------------------page 10
Worksheet 5 ---------------------------------------page 11

Part 2: Beyond the Anger

Section 4: Looking Under the Anger --------------pages 12-13
Worksheet 6 ----------------------------------------page 14
Section 5: Expressing Anger and Other Emotions ----pages 15-16
Worksheet 7 ----------------------------------------page 17
Section 6: Need-Meeting Behavior Options -------pages 18-19
Worksheet 8 ----------------------------------------page 20
Section 7: Impulsive Behavior Options -----------pages 21-22
Worksheet 9 ----------------------------------------page 23
Section 8: More Options and Ideas ---------------page 24

EXCERPT:

WHAT IS ANGER ??
Before you answer this question, stop and give it some serious thought. The answer may be more involved and complicated than you would first imagine.

First, let us clear some ground by stating up front that anger itself is neither “good” nor “bad”; it just is. The “labeling” of anger comes into play when the forms of anger expression are discussed.

Consider these definitions:
ANGER: An immediate emotional state, expressed from irritation to fury.
RAGE: Strongest form of anger, with the risk of loss of control.
AGGRESSION: Behavior intended to harm or intimidate others.
HOSTILITY: An attitude that sees others as enemies.
RESENTMENT: Stored anger. The opposite of forgiveness.
HATRED: Intense and unwavering dislike of another person.
DEPRESSION: Often the result of anger turned inward.

Consider these thoughts:
Anger is a resource, and a signal, letting us know that something needs to change.
Anger is a tool. It can manipulate. It can protect.
Anger is something that we feel, both emotionally, and physically.
When we are angry, we are some-other-emotion, too.

Consider this process:
A Situation occurs.
The Situation produces Emotions within us.
We are uncomfortable feeling or expressing those Emotions.
We convert or mask those uncomfortable Emotions with Anger.
We respond to the Situation by expressing the Anger.
The Situation remains unresolved, because the other underlying Emotions were not addressed.

It is often helpful to be able to see a “picture” of ourselves emotionally and physically, to more easily recognize and better understand what and how we think, feel and do. This “picture” can help us to begin taking the necessary steps towards changing our behaviors.

The following worksheets are designed to help explore our feelings and behaviors, and paint the picture of ourselves.

AUTHOR’S NOTE:
This workbook is full of worksheets,specifically designed to help you recognize things about yourself that you may never have realized, and to help you practice doing things differently.

We promise you that if you do not complete the worksheets as assigned... Nothing Will Happen.

If Nothing Happens, then it is quite probable that Nothing Will Change.

We encourage you to take a risk. Complete the worksheets given to you. Follow the directions carefully. Be honest. Give it a try.

You may be amazed before you are only halfway through.

But if you do Nothing.... Nothing Will Happen.

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This client workbook's contents are appropriate for use by all mental health professional counseling counselors (LPC, LCPC, LPCC, MHC, RMHC, NCC), marriage and family therapy therapists (MFT, LMFT, RMFT), social work social workers (SW, LCSW, LMSW, SWA, LICSW), psychologists, psychology associates (LPA), chemical dependency substance abuse counselors (LCDC, CADC, CAD, DAC, CAAD, CSAC), and nursing registered nurses (RN, LPN, LVN), and related behavioral health professionals.