Program Goals

Our goals for each client who attends the Anger Management program are:

To understand the difference between anger as an emotion and angry behavior which leads to harmful choices towards yourself and others
To understand negative self-talk and how such thoughts work to escalate emotions and choices
To demonstrate the ability to prevent anger from building by monitoring thoughts
To demonstrate knowledge of how to contain anger in the moment and how to calm down and make choices that are not harmful to yourself and/or others
To understand where your anger comes from and what situations you use to give yourself an excuse to hurt yourself and/or others
To learn conflict resolution skills and practice them during sessions
To start to understand how to make amends for choices made out of anger and negative self-talk
To start to learn how to reduce anger and build values and meaning in life that are not dependent on anger