ANGER MANAGEMENT EDUCATION SERVICES
AMES is a program designed for self-referrals, corporate clients, business professionals, physicians and nurses, law enforcement, adolescents, couples, and families. In short, anyone interested in improving interactions with others. Our classes are based on the Century Anger Management model of intervention, which is a cognitive-behavioral and psycho-educational course utilizing:
The Eight Tools of Anger Control:
1. Deal with Stress: Understand how stress underlies anger, the physical, medical, and mental effects of stress, and the four-step model to deal with stress.
2. Develop Empathy: Define what is empathy and why empathy is important in anger management. Teach ways to increase or improve empathic responses to others.
3. Respond Instead of React: Learn the difference between "reacting" and "responding" to stress/anger triggers. Understand that aggressive expression is a decision. Learn behaviors and new responses that are effective.
4. Change Self-Talk: Learn how self-talk (cognitions) influences emotions.
A-B-C-D-E model of anger control.
5. Assertive Communication: Learn how to be an assertive communicator and use strategies to handle and resolve interpersonal conflict.
6. Adjust Those Expectations: Learn the five steps to adjusting expectations in relationships and in the workplace.
7. Forgive, But Don't Forget: Learn three steps in forming a grievance and the seven steps to forgiveness.
8. Retreat and Think Things Over: Learn to "stay in the box", to heed warning signs and to use freeze-frame techniques which help to head off anger incidents and maintain control.
This is a 10-week program.
AMES is a program designed for self-referrals, corporate clients, business professionals, physicians and nurses, law enforcement, adolescents, couples, and families. In short, anyone interested in improving interactions with others. Our classes are based on the Century Anger Management model of intervention, which is a cognitive-behavioral and psycho-educational course utilizing:
The Eight Tools of Anger Control:
1. Deal with Stress: Understand how stress underlies anger, the physical, medical, and mental effects of stress, and the four-step model to deal with stress.
2. Develop Empathy: Define what is empathy and why empathy is important in anger management. Teach ways to increase or improve empathic responses to others.
3. Respond Instead of React: Learn the difference between "reacting" and "responding" to stress/anger triggers. Understand that aggressive expression is a decision. Learn behaviors and new responses that are effective.
4. Change Self-Talk: Learn how self-talk (cognitions) influences emotions.
A-B-C-D-E model of anger control.
5. Assertive Communication: Learn how to be an assertive communicator and use strategies to handle and resolve interpersonal conflict.
6. Adjust Those Expectations: Learn the five steps to adjusting expectations in relationships and in the workplace.
7. Forgive, But Don't Forget: Learn three steps in forming a grievance and the seven steps to forgiveness.
8. Retreat and Think Things Over: Learn to "stay in the box", to heed warning signs and to use freeze-frame techniques which help to head off anger incidents and maintain control.
This is a 10-week program.
