Definitions
A feeling or emotion that ranges from mild irritation to intense fury or rage.
What is anger?
A person can become angry without acting aggressively.
What is True? A person can feel anger without behaving aggressively.
Immediate strategies to control anger include?
What is taking a timeout, deep-breathing, and thought stopping.
True or False. Anger is inherited.
What is false? Individuals are not born with set, specific ways of expressing anger. Anger is a learned behavior and more appropriate ways of expressing anger can also be learned. (Bobo Doll Experiment).
These occur in response to an anger-provoking event.
What are cues?
What is hostility?
Anger becomes a problem when it is felt too intensely, too frequently, or it is expressed inappropriately.
What is true?
Preventative strategies of anger management include?
What is developing an exercise program and changing your irrational beliefs?
True or False. Anger automatically leads to aggression.
What is false? Using strategies such as assertiveness, positive self-talk, challenging irrational beliefs, and behavioral strategies can decrease the likelihood of acting aggressively when angered.
Cues serve as ___________ letting you know that you've become angry and that your anger is continuing to escalate.
What are warning signs?
This is something that a person has when he/she has a fit of temper.
What is a temper tantrum?
Feeling anger too intensely or frequently does not place extreme physical strain on the body.
What is false? Feeling anger too intensely or frequently DOES place extreme physical strain on the body.
This strategy allows you to try many different strategies to help you find the anger control techniques that work best for you.
What is an anger control plan?
True or False. Venting anger in an aggressive manner reinforces aggressive behavior.
What is true? Research has shown that people who vent their anger aggressively actually get better at being angry.
What are physical cues?
Behavior intended to cause harm to another person or damage property.
What is aggression?
True or False. Avoiding physical illness is a motivation for controlling anger.
What is true?
What is a timeout?
True or False. People must be aggressive to get what they want.
What is false? Acting assertively to express feelings of anger in a way that is respectful of other people will work better than acting aggressively.
These involve the behaviors that we display when we get angry, which are observed by other people around us.
This technique helps us monitor our anger by increasing our awareness of it using a scale of measurement.
What is the anger meter?
The inappropriate expression of anger does not have any payoffs/benefits.
What is false? It may have apparent payoffs such as being able to manipulate others, control others, and release tension. In long-term, there may be consequences such as children fearing or resenting their parents and becoming emotionally detached.
This strategy involves deep-breathing and the slow tensing and releasing of specific body parts.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
True or False. Much of people's behavior is learned by observing others.
What is true? If children observe parents expressing anger through aggressive acts, is is very likely that they will learn to express anger in similar ways.
Each member of the group must identify one physical, behavioral, emotional, and cognitive cue to their anger.
Physical: Racing heart, tight chest, feeling hot or flushed, etc.
Behavioral: Pacing, clenched fists, yelling, staring, etc.
Emotional: Fear, hurt, jealousy, guilt, etc.
Cognitive/Thoughts: Hostile self-talk, images of aggression and revenge, etc.