Understanding Anger
Anger is a feeling, but this is behavior intended to hurt a person or property.
What is aggression?
These are warning signs that tell you your anger is increasing.
What are anger cues?
This strategy involves stepping away from a situation before anger reaches a 10.
What is a timeout?
Seeing things as all good or all bad with no middle ground.
What is all-or-nothing thinking?
Your roommate forgets to do the dishes and you immediately think they never help out. This is what thinking error?
What is overgeneralization?
This tool uses a scale from 1 to 10 to measure anger levels.
What is the anger meter?
Increased heart rate, hot face, and muscle tension are examples of this type of cue.
What are physical cues?
Name one preventive anger management strategy discussed in Session 3.
What is exercise, developing healthy beliefs, or building support?
Assuming you know what someone is thinking without evidence.
What is mind reading?
A peer walks by without speaking. You assume they are angry with you.
What is jumping to conclusions?
True or False: Anger automatically leads to aggression.
False
Fear, hurt, jealousy, and feeling disrespected are examples of what type of cue?
What are emotional cues?
Deep breathing is primarily used for this purpose.
What is relaxation and reducing anger escalation?
Focusing only on the negative parts of a situation while ignoring positives.
What is mental filtering?
You fail one goal and say, "I'm a total failure."
What is labeling?
Name two goals of anger management treatment.
Learn to manage anger, stop violence, develop self-control, or receive support from others.
Hostile self-talk and revenge fantasies fall under this cue category.
What are cognitive cues?
Besides taking a timeout, name one support strategy from the sample anger control plan.
Talk to a friend, attend support meetings, exercise, or explore underlying feelings.
Believing that because you feel something, it must be true.
What is emotional reasoning?
"If I get written up, I'll lose my job, become homeless, and ruin my life."
What is catastrophizing?
According to the SAMHSA workbook, what myth says people cannot change how they express anger?
The myth that the way you express anger cannot be changed.
Name all four categories of anger cues.
Physical, Behavioral, Emotional, and Cognitive.
Why is a timeout considered one of the most important anger control strategies?
Because it can stop anger escalation before reaching a 10 and prevent loss of control.
Holding yourself or others to rigid rules using words like "must," "always," or "should."
What are should statements?
Your counselor looks serious during group and you assume it is because of something you did.
What is personalization?