Definitions
A feeling or emotion that ranges from mild irritation to intense fury and rage.
What is anger?
True of False: The way you express anger cannot be changed.
What is False. Behaviors are learned and you can learn to calm down more quickly with practice. But facial expressions and our nervous systems response when we become angry are inherited.
What are health problems associated with feeling anger?
This stress on the body may produce many different health problems, such as hypertension, heart disease, and diminished immune system efficiency.
Give an example of an anger trigger.
Common ones include being insulted, having personal space violated, being ignored, being lied to, etc.
Strategies that help people deal with difficult situations and mental health challenges.
What is coping skills?
True or False: Anger automatically leads to aggression.
What is False: Effective anger management involves controlling the escalation of anger by learning assertiveness skills, changing negative and hostile thoughts or “self-talk,” challenging irrational beliefs, and employing a variety of behavioral strategies
What is a payoff of expressing anger initially?
Being able to manipulate and control others through aggressive and intimidating behavior; others may comply with someone’s demands because they fear verbal threats or violence.
The release of tension that occurs when you lose your temper and act aggressively. You may feel better after an angry outburst, but everyone else may feel worse
What is a trigger?
Something that creates an emotional or behavioral response.
A behavior that is intended to cause harm to another person or damage property.
What is aggression?
True or False: Anger is a natural response to those situations where we feel threatened, we believe harm will come to us, or we bile that another person has unnecessarily wronged us.
What is True?
What are negative consequence of expressing anger through verbal abuse or intimidating or threatening behavior?
It is likely that others will develop fear, resentment, and lack of trust toward those who subject them to angry outbursts, which may cause alienation from individuals, such as family members, friends, and coworkers.
How soon should you recognize triggers of anger?
As early as possible. This give us the best chance of using a coping skill.
To feel defeated. If a person is doing something or experiencing something and he/she feel like they want to give up, it is because he/she has become ____. Often times leads to anger.
What is frustration?
True of False: You must be aggressive to get what you want.
What is False. Assertiveness is to express feelings of anger in a way that is respectful of other people.
What are the physical feeling you get when anger is felt intensely?
Blood pressure and heart rate increase and stay elevated for long periods.
True or False: People may not realize something is a trigger.
What is True?
A complex set of attitudes and judgments that motivate aggressive behaviors.
What is hostility?
True or False: Venting anger is always desirable.
What is False. Venting anger in an aggressive manner reinforces aggressive behavior.
What are negative consequences of expressing anger inappropriately through violence or physical aggression?
Anger may lead to violence or physical aggression, which can result in numerous negative consequences, such as being arrested or jailed, losing your job, being physically injured, being retaliated against, alienating loved ones, being terminated from a substance use disorder treatment or social service program, or feeling guilt, shame, or regret.
Give an example of three anger triggers.
Receiving unfair treatment, being yelled at, being stuck in traffic, conflicts at work or home, not getting credit for your work, jealousy, being lied to, etc