Definitions
A natural response to those situations where we fee threatened, we believe harm with come to us, or we believe that another person has unnecessarily wronged us.
What is anger?
Everyone interprets the numbers on the Anger Meter Scale the same.
What is False?
People may interpret the numbers on the scale differently.
To act passively or in a nonassertive manner.
What is an alternative to using aggressive behavior?
Acting in a passive or nonassertive way is undesirable because you allow your rights to be violated.
People can ______ _______ ______ through words, actions, art, or any number of other ways.
What is EXPRESS THEIR ANGER?
Scapegoat, Caretaker, Hero, Mascot, Lost Child, Addict
What are Dysfunctional Family Roles?
A behavior that is intended to cause harm to another person or damage property. This behavior can include verbal abuse, threats, or violent acts.
What is aggression?
Physical, Behavioral, Verbal, and Cognitive are the 4 cues to Anger.
What is False.
Physical, Behavioral, EMOTIONAL, and Cognitive are the 4 cues to anger.
The most common thing one can do when he becomes angry is_____. This gives you time to calm down as you are doing this. Hint: You can go backwards or you can start from the beginning.
What is count to ten?
When people ty to determine the reasons for their anger, they point to external pressures.
What is TRUE.
Problems like these certainty create anger, but the do not tell the whole story. ex: My spouse is uncooperative. My parents neglected basic needs. My children are rebellious.
The interactions we have had with our parents have strongly influenced our ______, _______, _______ as adults.
What is Behaviors, Feelings, and Attitudes?
An attitude that involves disliking others and evaluating them negatively.
What is hostility?
An ANGER CONTROL PLAN is to try many different strategies and find the anger control techniques that work best for you.
What is TRUE.
ex: Timeout, Talk to a friend (someone you trust), Conflict Resolution Model, Exercise, Attend 12-step meetings, Explore primary feelings beneath the anger.
"My feelings, thoughts, and beliefs are important, and your feelings, thoughts, and beliefs are equally important.
What is the basic message of Assertiveness?
Humility is not an obligation or a duty. It is a choice.
What is True.
Recognizing it has a choice, we can decide to accept humility by first acknowledging that we can be wildly angry.
Anger is a choice.
False.
Anger is a FEELING we choose as a result of our emotion(s).
What is an APPARENT payoff?
There are 3 phases where anger leads to aggression.
What is TRUE
Buildup, Explosion, and Aftermath
People who are _______ __________ may often feel that others are trying to control them or are on a "power trip".
What is PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE?
The ______ Model is consistent with the way some people conceptualize anger management treatment.
What is the A-B-C-D Model?
Our circumstances, age, culture, gender, personality, ______, and past all affect how we repsond when angry.
What is family?
A series of behaviors by someone who reacts and behaves inappropriately to internal or external stimuli. Beliefs that are not always followed by society.
What is Maladaptive Behaviors?
Assertive, Aggressive, Passive, and Passive-Aggressive responses are LEARNED behaviors; they are not innate, unchangeable traits.
What is true?
The basic message of, "Your feelings, thoughts, and beliefs are important, but MY feelings, thoughts, and beliefs are unimportant and inconsequential".
What is PASSIVITY?
A second approach to controlling anger. You simply tell yourself through a series of self-commands to stop thinking the thoughts that are making you angry. The goal is to stop your current pattern of angry thoughts before they lead to a escalation of anger and a loss of control. Alternative to the A-B-C-D model.
What is Thought Stopping.
Secondary Emotion or Secondary Response
What is ANGER?