Radiant Sunshine Training Site

Course Description

• This course should particularly benefit mental health clinicians, social workers, and all others in the People-Helping profession, who desire to learn about anger management. It offers intermediate learner evidenced-based strategies and tools to successfully treat anger in clients of all ages from children to adults. Topics will cover the neuroscience of anger, how to uncover shame, trauma, and other issues hiding behind their client's anger. It will offer professionals ways on how to acquire skills that will empower their clients to manage their reactions to anger. In addition, it will assist professionals in gaining knowledge of how to utilize clinical tools to turn their client’s resistance to acceptance, and fundamentally change their destructive relationship with anger.
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  Working with angry clients can make sessions uncomfortable, stressful, and anxiety-inducing. But all mental health professionals will encounter anger or something that arises as you help clients with trauma, anxiety, depression, shame, addiction, and other issues. This training course will give participants the skills and clinical tools they need to confidently and effectively work with angry clients and fundamentally change their destructive relationship with anger. Participants will receive proven strategies that derail anger at the moment, challenge dysfunctional thoughts, and help clients let go of anger rooted in the past. In addition,  Participants will also get detailed guidance on how to teach your clients the skills they need to constructively communicate anger without the outbursts that damage their most important relationships, jeopardize their careers, and put their health at risk.

Learning Objectives include...

• Examining the popularity, the definition, the social context, and the dynamics of anger. 
• Identifying health risks, social costs of chronic anger, myths about anger and differentiating between healthy and destructive anger.
• Describing  the various instruments to measure anger, listing the common diagnosis of anger, explain what to include in the treatment plan, identifying the various anger styles and examining the connection between the brain and anger. 
• Identifying triggers, warning signs and social supports  along with identifying effective skills and strategies to manage anger, including conflict resolution techniques.