Anger Management
A behavior that is intended to cause harm to another person or damage property.
What is aggression
You take responsibility for people's actions and/or situations beyond your control.
What is blaming self.
The feeling that gives you a strong urge to either fight of run away.
What is fear.
Stating that someone or something causes your unhealthy behavior.
What is blaming.
Stuffing our thoughts or feelings to the point we are unaware of them.
What is repression.
The three phases of the aggression cycle.
What are the escalation phase, explosion phase and postexplosion phase.
You get 2-A's, 2-B's, and a D. Instead of praising yourself for A's and B's, you torture yourself over the D.
What is filtering.
Name the six big feelings
What are shame, anger, fear, sadness, grief and guilt.
Ignore an unpleasant fact or situation.
What is denial.
Problems of husbands, wives, children are addressed in.
What is family therapy.
The four cues to anger.
What are physical, behavioral, emotional, and cognitive.
"I must lose weigh, I must get my GED, I have to get a job tomorrow, or I have to have a wife/husband"
What is shoulds.
This feeling leads to self-talk sounding like:
"I am bad. I am worthless. I am not good enough and I never will be."
What is shame.
Making excuses for inappropriate behavior.
What is rationalization.
I have been clean and sober for 6 weeks. Now I can:
What is continue step-work and meetings.
Another name for rational-emotive model.
What is the A-B-C-D model.
"I feel like a failure so I must be one."
What is emotional reasoning.
One of the most powerful emotion because it can lead to you to act in destructive and harmful ways.
What is anger.
Go back to an earlier, safer, more comfortable stage, situation or behavior.
What is regression.
Unhealthy defenses used in addiction are mainly
What are denial and blaming.
One important model in assertiveness training.
What is the Conflict Resolution Model.
Boss tells worker, "You have made great progress and are ready for a promotion."
Worker says: "It's nothing - s/he's just saying that."
What is minimizing positives.
Which fact states: Sometimes people use the words "feel" or "feeling" when they are really talking about a thought or belief.
What is thoughts can be mistaken for feelings
Avoidance of emotion; being in your head verses your heart.
What is intellectualization.
Low levels of which chemicals in the brain are linked with depression
What are serotonin and dopamine.