Management
myth or fact?
anger is something that builds and escalates to the point of an aggressive outburst.
myth
effective anger management involves controlling the escalation of anger.
Anger can be a positive emotion
True- a moral response to injustice or a rational response to a threat and it can be expressed in assertive and productive ways
the weekly ____ helps increase awareness about your patterns of anger and identifies the kinds of situations, thoughts, feelings, and consequences that are associated with anger.
check-in procedure
Many times, specific events touch on sensitive areas in your life. These sensitive areas, sometimes called____, usually refer to longstanding issues that can easily lead to anger
red flags,
_____ is a mindful approach at deep breathing as a strategy for resetting the body.
Relaxation breathing
What types of support are out there?
• Self-help groups
• Professional help
• Spiritual or religious affiliations
• Personal relationships
• Coworkers
• Community service agencies
The basic message of passive-aggressive behavior is, “Your feelings, thoughts, and beliefs are important, but my feelings, thoughts, and beliefs are unimportant and inconsequential.”
False
passivity
A simple way to monitor anger is to use the____.
“anger meter.”
what are the four cues to anger?
Behavioral
emotional
physical
cognitive
________is a relaxation technique. It involves tensing and then relaxing your muscles, one by one. This helps you release physical tension, which may ease stress and anxiety.
Progressive muscle relaxation
Some people refer to their ________ as their toolbox and the specific strategies they use to control their anger as their tools.
anger control plans
emotional cues refer to the thoughts that occur in response to the anger-related event. When people become angry, they may interpret events in certain ways.
False
Cognitive cues
By acting ______ you can express your feelings, thoughts, and beliefs to the person who was unfair to you without suffering the negative consequences associated with aggression or the devaluation of your feelings.
assertively
From an anger management perspective, an episode where anger leads to aggression can be viewed as consisting of three phases: buildup, explosion, and aftermath.
What is this called?
aggression cycle
A ____ means leaving the situation that is causing the escalation of anger or putting a stop to the discussion that is provoking it.
timeout
One goal of__________ is to reframe the way you think about a problem (the cognitive part) so that you can change your approach to it (the behavioral part).
cognitive–behavioral therapy
one person may experience more episodes of anger and progress through the aggression cycle more often than another person. However, both individuals, despite differences in how quickly their anger escalates and how frequently they experience anger, will undergo all three phases of the aggression cycle.
true
One method of acting assertively is to use the ______, which involves five steps that can easily be memorized. This model gives you a structure for solving problems.
Conflict Resolution Model
true or false
The primary hypothesis for the intergenerational cycle of violence is that violent and abusive adults learned this behavior as a result of being the victims of or witnesses of aggressive and abusive behavior as children.
true
_____ provides an immediate and direct alternative to the A-B-C-D Model. In this approach, you simply tell yourself (through a series of self-commands) to stop thinking the thoughts that are getting you angry.
thought stopping
_________theory, is the assumption that behavior is socially learned. Many studies have established that the way people learn to express anger and violence is by observing others, particularly influential people.
social cognitive theory
The final stage of the aggression cycle is the explosion phase. It is characterized by negative consequences resulting from verbal or physical aggression.
false
the aftermath phase
There are 5 steps in the conflict resolution model, tell me at least 2.
identifying the problem
identifying the feelings
identifying the specific impact
Deciding whether to resolve the conflict or let it go.
Addressing and resolving the conflict
The ____ phase is marked by a discharge of anger displayed as verbal or physical aggression. This discharge, in turn, leads to negative consequences; it is synonymous with the number 10 on the anger meter.
explosion
The ___ Model approach consists of identifying maladaptive beliefs and disputing them with more rational or realistic perspectives. The model is based on the assumption that it is not the events themselves that produce feelings such as anger, but our interpretations of and beliefs about the events.
ABCD