Basics of Anger
A feeling or emotion that ranges from mild irritation to intense fury and rage
What is Anger?
An event or situation that provokes intense feelings. These sensitive areas or “red flags” usually refer to longstanding issues that can easily lead to anger.
WHat is a trigger?
Accountability, help with challenges, cheerleading successes are all examples of why building this is important.
What is social support / sober support/ sober network / support network?
These are the three phases of the aggression cycle.
What are buildup, Explosion, and Aftermath/Consequence?
This long-form strategy involved processing the activating event to an anger episode and is named similarly to a Jackson 5 song.
What is the A-B-C-D method?
Refers to a set of attitudes and judgments that motivate aggressive behaviors.
What is hostility?
This refers to what you do and can include clenching your fists, raising your voice, or intensely staring.
What are behavioral cues?
Developing an exercise program and changing irrational beliefs are examples of this, which requires time to develop and are used to avoid increased anger.
What are preventative strategies?
This phase is categorized by the identification of mental, behavioral, emotional, and physical cues to anger
What is the buildup phase?
This form of communication is marked verbal abuse, threats, or violent acts.
What is aggression?
Behavior that is intended to harm or injury to another person or damage to property.
What is aggression?
This refers to how your body responds and can include increased heart rate, tightness in the chest, feeling hot or flushed.
What are Physical cues?
Timeouts, deep-breathing exercises, and thought stopping are examples of these, requiring quick response to triggers.
What are immediate strategies/coping skills?
Getting fired froma job, kicked out of treatment, financial costs, loss of family, friends, jail, guilt, shame are all examples of...
What is consequences/Aftermath?
"Don't buy into this situation", "I need to stop thinking like this", "Don't go there", are examples of this short-form strategy as a way to stop the escalation of anger instead of disputing your thought patterns.
What is the thought-stopping method?
Releasing tension and controlling people are two examples of this.
What are apparent payoffs?
This refers to other feelings that may occur along with anger—fear, hurt, jealousy, disrespect.
What are emotional cues?
This immediate strategy can be effective when used to employ other anger control strategies, and time limits are set to return to and resolve the situation.
What are timeouts?
This phase is categorized by the behaviors we have traditionally associated with anger: verbal aggression, property destruction, and violence.
What is the explosion phase?
This form of communication stems from the belief that feelings, thoughts, and beliefs are unimportant and inconsequential.
What is passive communication?
Performing behaviors automatically, over and over again, without thinking.
What is a habit?
This refers to what you think about in response to the event—hostile self-talk, images of aggression and revenge.
What are cognitive cues?
This breathing exercise requires breathing in and out at different intervals, activating the vagus nerve and parasympathetic nervous system
What is the 4-7-8 method?
The process of intentionally tensing each body part followed by intentional release, it is a popular coping strategy to combat anger
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
This form of communication is marked by mutual respect of all parties where no one is trying to "win" the argument: expressing feelings, thoughts, and beliefs to the person who violated your rights without suffering the negative consequences associated with aggression or the devaluation of yourself associated with passivity or nonassertion.
What is assertive communication?