Anger management overview
This is an emotion that can range from mild irritation to intense fury and rage
What is Anger?
These cues involve the way our bodies respond when we become angry
What are Physical cues?
This anger control plan allows the person who becomes angry to step back from a situation until they have calmed down. This is the most basic strategy used for anger management.
What is the explosion stage?
This letter in the ABCD model is also known as the "red flag" event
What is "A" activating event?
This behavior can be defined as causing harm to another person or to damage property
What is Aggression?
Triggers, red flags, signals are warning signs that we are about to become angry.
What is a cue?
This plan allows you get feed back from people you trust to support your recovery, , including anger management strategies that will deescalate, rather than escalate, the situation.
What is a Social support plan?
This stage is characterized by cues that anger is escalting.
What is the build up
Maladaptive beliefs are beliefs that can lead to anger. The _______ part of the model helps us counter hostile self talk
What is "D" dispute?
The behavioral expression of anger is fixed and cannot be changed. This is a what?
What is a myth?
______ cues are hostile self talk and images of aggression. Some _______ cues could be pacing back and fourth, clinched fist or shouting.
What are Cognitive and Behavioral cues?
This plan allows you to rate your anger on a scale from (calm)1-10 (physically aggressive)
What is the Anger meter?
In this stage, a person faces the consequences of their actions after a angry outburst.
What is aftermath?
This part of the model states that ______ is the interpretation of an event.
What is "B" Belief?
When feeling anger too intensely or frequently for a long period of time, it can cause these ailments
What is hypertension, heart diseases and a diminished immune system?
Fear, hurt jealousy, guilt are all ______ emotional cues to anger
What is Primary?
This plan allows you to identify the event that led to your anger, the cues that were associated with this anger, the number rating on the anger meter, the behavior that resulted, negative consequences from the anger, and the strategies you used to manage the anger in response to the event.
What is a anger awareness record?
This exercise helps takes tension out of your body by tensing certain areas and releasing them.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
This approach to stopping anger is immediate and a direct alternative to the ABCD model
What is thought stopping?
In order to change the anger habit, you must develop an ______ of the circumstances/ behaviors of others that trigger you.
What is awareness
When you become angry, it is because of your interpretation of an ______ that has provoked your anger.
What is an Event?
The long-term objective of anger management treatment is to develop a set of _________ that you can use appropriately for specific anger-related events.
What are strategies?
_______ and ______of a person's anger varies from amongst individuals
What is Intensity and Frequency?
In this part of the ABCD model emotional ________. These are feelings people experience as a result of an interpretation of the event.
What is "C" Consequences?