How to recognize and control your anger. We offer anger group facilitations!
Do I have an Anger Problem? Expressing Anger is a normal and secondary human emotion which is experienced by all people. Typically triggered by an emotional hurt, stress anger is usually experienced as an unpleasant feeling that occurs when we think we have been injured, mistreated, opposed in our long-held views, or when we are faced with obstacles that keep us from attaining personal goals.
Anger can be constructive or destructive. When well managed, anger has very few detrimental health or interpersonal consequences. Anger is a warning signal to you that something in your world isn’t right. It catches your attention and motivates you to take action to correct that wrong thing. How you end up handling the anger signal has very important consequences for your overall health and welfare, however. When you express anger, your actions trigger others to become defensive and angry too.
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Is Your Anger a Problem?
The Way Education and Counseling Center offers Anger Management training, both individual and group sessions, Employer-ordered or Court-ordered Anger Management training, and Anger Management for Adolescents. Certificates of Completion are available.
When Does Anger Become a Problem?
Anger is considered by the American Psychiatric Association as a lifestyle issue which becomes a problem when it is too intense, occurs too frequently, lasts too long, impacts health, destroys interpersonal relationships or leads to person or property directed aggression.
Since anger is not a mental disorder, it is generally not responsive to psychotherapy or psychotropic medication. Psychiatrists, psychologists, or clinical social workers are not necessarily trained to provide anger management classes unless they have completed specific training in anger management.
Anger Issues and responses are learned. There is general agreement among most knowledgeable experts that the way one responds to anger is learned and, therefore, can be unlearned. Alternative approaches to dealing with anger can be taught. There are multiple ways that people learn an aggressive angry expression style. Some people learn to be angry in childhood by copying the behavior of angry people around them who influence others by being hostile and making threats. Someone who has learned to act in an angry way may not realize that they have an anger problem. From their perspective, they are just acting 'normally' (e.g., meaning normal for their family of origin).
Anger victims' desire for revenge or status can also cause them to develop anger problems, on the theory that "a good offense is the best defense". Alternatively, abused or wounded people may overreact and seek revenge against an entire group of people, only some of whom may have actually harmed them. Still another way people can learn to be aggressively hostile involves their being reinforced and rewarded for being a bully. People who bully someone once and then find others respecting or fearing them more for their aggressive actions become quite motivated to continue bullying.
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