Anger Management

Anger is a natural, often adaptive, emotional response to perceived threats, injustice, or frustration. However, when anger becomes excessive, chronic, or disproportionate to the situation, it can negatively impact personal relationships, work, and overall well-being. Exploring the nature of anger as well as its management often focuses on identifying underlying triggers, understanding the emotional and cognitive processes involved, and developing ways to express and cope with anger through practices such as assertiveness training and problem-solving skills. Difficulties with managing, processing, and externalizing anger can manifest in several ways, like having difficulty recognizing anger, having difficulty calming the body after experiencing stress, having difficulty achieving some resolution of the problem that caused the anger, or having difficulty influencing one’s environment in a way that minimizes the eliciting of anger.

Because of the multifaceted nature of anger and its difficulties in management, a thorough assessment is often recommended in order to clearly identify the nature of one’s difficulties with anger. For this reason, there is seldom a single, generalized, and recommended treatment plan for working with anger.