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Anger Management Course Outline

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Class Topics

• 1. Types of abuse:
  • Physical
  • Mental
  • Emotional
  • Sexual
  • Economic
• 2. Evolution of anger (why insight is important)
  • Evolution of extreme anger
  • Terms used in anger growing up
• 3. Healthy anger
  • Range of healthy anger
  • Unhealthy anger
• 4. Relationships
  • Cooperative
  • Competitive
  • Defensive
• 5. Restoring a relationship
  • I love you to F… you in five years
  • Can it be restored
  • Some relationships should end
  • Some relationships just need help
  • Begin with the end in mind
  • Seek first to understand then be understood
  • See in order to believe
  • Believe in order to see
• 6. What to include on a plan to help discuss difficult issues more effectively.
• 7. What is a dangerous situation?
  • Toxic Relationships
• 8. If things were getting dangerous, what to do?
• 9. Examples of a dangerous situation?
• 10. People or places to go to for help
• 11. What are your main challenges with anger in a relationship now?
• 12. What are you doing to handle these situations?
• 13. How do you know when you are getting angry (physical, mental, emotional signals)?
• 14. What does a victim of violence experience?
• 15. If you were to get violent with your partner, what should she do?
  • What are the negative effects of domestic violence on children?
• 16. What are 7 steps necessary to regain trust once it is violated?
• 17. What negative effects do alcohol and drugs have on a relationship?
  • Should learn signs and symptoms
  • Should know something about different treatment methods
• 18. Give a recent example of something that made you mad and how you handled it in a healthy way.
• 19. The “f… it” wall. What is it?
• 20. Fantasy based and reality based relationships.
  • Fantasy based beliefs
  • Reality based beliefs
  • Do the math
• 21. Systems approach to understanding relationships
  • Discuss influence of society, culture, religion, friends, family, work etc.
• 22. Homeostasis and Evolution
  • Discuss how the relationship is allowed to grow, i.e., is it an open or closed system.
  • What kinds of rules are kept in effect to keep things the same. Does change threaten the relationship?
• 23. Cooperative, competitive and defensive relationships
  • Seek first to understand, then be understood
  • What does blaming, degrading, dehumanizing or putting a partner’s safety at risk do for the relationship?
  • What does coercion or violent behavior do to a partner?
• 24. Treatment plans
  • Desire
  • Consistency/commitment
  • Plan
  • Plus/minus
  • Choice
  • Attitude
  • Follow through
  • It takes time
  • Assessment
• 25. Role play
  • Break into small groups.
  • Have participants develop a solution to a problem created by the group.
  • Demonstrate how it can be solved.
  • Give examples of how this is used in group and what participants do, i.e., 1-10 grade.