The practitioner's guide to anger management : customizable interventions, treatments, and tools for clients with problem anger

The practitioner's guide to anger management : customizable interventions, treatments, and tools for clients with problem anger / Howard Kassinove, Raymond Chip Tafrate.

From the authors of the hugely popular self-help guide, Anger Management for Everyone, comes a comprehensive resource to help clinicians treat client anger. Using the authors' innovative and modular SMART (Selection Menu for Anger Reduction Treatment) model for anger intervention, professionals...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kassinove, Howard (Author), Tafrate, Raymond Chip (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland : Impact Publishers, Inc./New Harbinger Publications, [2019]
Subjects:
Anger > Treatment.
Evidence-based psychotherapy.
Evidence-based psychotherapy
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Anger Treatment Basics
  • Anger fundamentals and smart anger management
  • The initial sessions : engagement
  • Part 2: Case Formulation and Treatment Planning
  • The anger episode model
  • Assessment
  • Part 3: Preparing Clients for Change
  • Enhancing awareness and motivation
  • Psychoeducation
  • Part 4: Interventions to Alter Anger Triggers
  • Lifestyle changes
  • Sidestepping provocations
  • Social and personal problem solving
  • Part 5: Interventions to Change Thoughts : Accepting, Adapting, and Adjusting
  • Promoting realistic thoughts and an accepting philosophy
  • Perspective taking, compassion, and forgiveness as antidotes to anger and resentment
  • Part 6: Interventions to Alter Internal Experiences and Urges
  • Overcoming impulsive urges and increasing tolerance for distress
  • Tolerating negative words and thoughts : barb exposure
  • Part 7: Interventions to Alter Anger Expression
  • Social and interpersonal skilss
  • Assertiveness training : awareness, actions, and words
  • Part 8: Going Beyond Anger Management and Putting It All Together
  • Happiness
  • Applying the smart model to a sample case references.

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