Session one
behavior that is intended to cause harm to another person or damage property.
What is Aggression?
An example of this includes heart rate increasing, tightness in chest, feeling hot or flushed
What is a physical cue of Anger?
Build up, Explosion, Aftermath
What are the phases of the Aggression Cycle?
This means leaving the situation that is causing the escalation of anger or putting a stop to the discussion that is provoking it.
What is a Timeout?
This is the highest number anyone reported on their Anger Meter during this group
What is eight?
an emotion and does not necessarily lead to aggression.
What is Anger?
This is a practice to identify the event that led to your anger, Cue associated with anger, negative consequences for your anger if any, and any strategies you used and did they help you manage your anger.
What is the Anger Awareness Record?
This phase involves the cues that that indicate anger is escalating. These cues are considered warning signs or responses to anger related events.
What is the Build up phase?
This technique will take you through your five senses to help remind you of the present,
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Exercise?
This is the score on the anger meter for verbal abuse or physical abuse of someone
What is a ten?
a complex set of attitudes and judgements that motivate aggressive behaviors.
What is Hostility?
This is a plan that consists of "tools" you use to best manage your anger
What is an Anger control Plan?
This phase is characterized by negative consequences resulting from the verbal or physical aggression displayed during the explosion phase.
What is the Aftermath Phase of Aggression?
This strategy consists of taking a deep breath together, Noticing your lungs and chest expanding, slowly exhaling. Again, taking a deep breath. Fill your lungs and chest. Notice how much air you can take in. Hold it for a second. Now release it and slowly exhale. and repeating to help you relax any tension you may have.
What is Deep-Breathing exercise?
An example of this would be being able to manipulate or control others through aggressive or intimidating behaviors.
What is a Payoff?
The purpose of this is to monitor the escalation of anger as it moves up the scale.
What is the Anger Meter?
This may consist of clenching your fists, raising your voice, slamming a door, or pacing.
What is a Behavioral Cue of anger?
These things may vary among individuals for anger in the aggression cycle?
What are intensity, frequency, and duration?
This technique involves an activating event (the red flag event), the beliefs that people have about the activating event, the emotional consequence of events and disputing the belief.
What is the A-B-C-D Model?
This is when we review our highest level of anger and discuss the situation at the beginning of group?
What is the Check-In Procedure?
What is a Myth of Anger?
Specific events touch on sensitive areas in your life and those areas are called this which usually refer to longstanding issues that can easily lead to anger.
What are "red flags?"
This is another name for the A-B-C-D Model?
What is the Rational Emotive Model or What is cognitive restructuring?
A technique in which you focus on slowly tensing and then relaxing each muscle group. This can help you focus on the difference between muscle tension and relaxation.
What is Progressive Muscle Relaxation?
To learn to manage anger, Stop Violence or the threat of violence, develop and strengthen skills for self-control over thoughts and actions, and receive support and feedback from others.
What is the purpose of anger management group?