Coping Skills
Diversions
What is your favorite anger management strategy?
personal opinion
Fear + Anticipation
Anxiety
Definition of the four cues?
Physical Cue: Involve the way our bodies respond when we become angry.
Behavioral Cue: Involve the behaviors we display when we get angry, which are observed by other people around us.
Emotional Cue: Involve other feelings that may occur concurrently with our anger.
Cognitive Cue: Refer to the thoughts that occur in response to the anger provoking event.
What is self-awareness?
Conscious knowledge of one's own character, feelings, motives, and desires.
Social/Interpersonal (with others)
What is an anger cue?
An anger cue is a warning sign that is telling you that you're becoming angry. They can be a physical or bodily response, a behavior, a feeling, or a thought.
Joy + Confidence
Love
What is a trigger?
A trigger is a stressor, an action or situation that can lead to an adverse emotional reaction.
What is your anger control plan?
Something along the lines of timeouts, talking to a friend, using the conflict resolution model, exercise, 12-step meetings, and exploring the primary feelings beneath the anger.
Physical
What can anger cues show up as?
They can be a physical or bodily response, a behavior, a feeling, or a thought.
Disappointment
Define CBT
CBT is often the treatment of choice for anger management, according to Engle. She says it can help you understand your triggers for anger, develop and practice coping skills, and think, feel, and behave differently in response to anger, so you are calmer and more in control.
What does the A-B-C-D Model stand for?
A- Activating situation or event
B- Beliefs people have about the activating event
C- Consequences of events
D- Dispute
Tension Releasers
What are 3 examples of triggers that we have learned about?
Some ex.
Injustice, disrespect, violation of your personal space, abusive language, labeling, shaming, blaming, physical threats, insults, or misinformation.
Suprise + Anger
Outrage
Define Anger Management
“Anger management is an approach designed to help you manage the emotional and physiological arousal that accompanies anger."
What is aggression impulsivity?
characterized by reactive, overt, explosive responses to situations that exceed normal and appropriate levels of emotion for the situation.
Cognitive (Of the Mind)
Name an example of an external and internal trigger.
External:
Unfair situation/treatment, having your property damaged by others, crowds, traffic.
Internal:
Lack of sleep, being hungry, negative emotions such as anxiety or depression.
Sadness + Anger
What is the ANGER thermometer? What does 1-10 mean?
Anger Thermometer is a way to see how angry you are at a given time. 1 being not so angry, to 10 being the explosion.
Name and briefly describe the 3 different communications styles
Aggressive: Confrontational
Passive: Put others needs above your own
Assertive: Perfect mix between the two