If you feel that your anger is really out of control, if it is having an impact on your relationships and on important parts of your life, you might consider counseling to learn how to handle it better. Our professional Counselors can work with you in developing a range of techniques for changing your thinking and your behavior.
ANGER MANAGEMENT COURSE DESCRIPTION AND DOCUMENTS:
These courses will allow our clients to attend a group session per week, for the length of time specified in their recommendations. Our courses are oriented to help people change their negative behavior, gain practical skills to control their anger and to enhance their relationships.
Our clients are mandated by courts, employers, schools and other institutions to take anger management courses.
CURRICULUM:
Week # 1
Lesson One
Objective # 1: To define anger, how it affects people and relationships.
Objective # 2: To explore triggers for and teaching about anger.
Week # 2
Lesson Two
Objective # 1: Identifying the process of anger.
Objective # 2: Normalizing anger.
Week # 3
Lesson Three
Objective # 1: To learn how anger can be expressed in healthy way.
Week # 4
Lesson Four
Objective # 1: To learn skills for managing stress that can help to prevent anger escalation.
Week # 5
Lesson Five
Objective # 1: To learn how to process anger and frustration through healthy communication.
Objective # 2: Problem-solving skills.
Week # 6
Lesson Six
Objective # 1: To identify and apply ways of expressing anger and frustration through the use of assertive communication.
Week # 7
Lesson Seven
Objective # 1: To identify and apply conflict resolution skills to disputes and disagreements.
Week # 8
Lesson Eight
Objective # 1: To learn that forgiveness is possible.
Objective # 2: To identify someone in client’s life with whom he/she needs to ask forgiveness or forgive.
Week # 9
Objective # 1: To explore how to apply strategies for managing stress.
Objective # 2: To implement the time-out coping skill to help de-escalate anger.
Week # 10
Lesson Ten
Objective # 1: To determinate how thinking can escalate angry feelings and behavior.
Objective # 2: To define how to change thinking that is distorted and unrealistic.
Week # 11
Lesson Eleven
Objective # 1: To learn the importance of emotional intelligence and empathy.
Objective # 2: To identify our ability to empathize with others.
Week # 12
Lesson Twelve
Objective # 1: To identify ways to build healthy relationships
Objective # 2: To defuse conflict and anger.
ADMISSION - ASSESSMENT
At the admission time, clients will need to complete an assessment. This assessment covers the key information required for treatment planning. Specifically, the basic assessment offers a structure with which to obtain: General strengths and problem areas Stage of change or stage of treatment for anger problems
TREATMENT PLAN
Treatment goals are the expected therapeutic outcomes that are manifested in observable and measurable behavior. Some of the treatment goals are immediate, some are long term, and others are lifetime goals. Thus, some anger management goals will be met during the course, while others may be met during later phases of treatment and beyond. Also, treatment goals change over time, as progress is demonstrated.
Anger management treatment goals will be organized according to the third dimension described in ASAM's patient placement criteria.
CONTINUED STAY REVIEW
Ongoing assessment of the patient’s progress in treatment will occur in order to determine continued stay in the program in which the client was placed. The assessment will be accomplished using the ASAM continue stay or discharged criteria. Progress will be continually assessed and recorded in progress notes. At a minimum, a continued stay review will include a review of the ASAM continued stay or discharge criteria. The current treatment plan and all subsequent progress notes. Continued stay reviews will be measured through hours or days.
PROGRESS NOTES
Progress notes are the part of the client’s record where professionals record details to document a client’s clinical status or achievements during the course of his/her program. Progress notes will be written in DAP format, where the note is organized into Data, Assessment, and Plan sections. Progress note will reflect client progress and will be consistent with the clinical assessment, the program and expectations of progress.
DISCHARGE
Dui Metropolitan Services Inc. will develop discharge and exclusionary criteria consistent with customary clinical standards accepted within the community. After the client is discharged from all treatment, a discharge summary shall be entered in the client record. This summary will include:
a) Reason for discharge – the reason for discharge and the progress of the client relative to each goal and objective in the treatment plan.
b) Client’s prognostic – a prognostic statement of the client’s condition at discharge, including any continued use of prescribed medication.
c) Continuing plan.
CONTINUING CARE PLAN
Participation in a Continuing Care Program is included as part of the client’s recommendations. Continuing Care consists of 2 hours group sessions once per month, minimally for as long as necessary (usually between six and twelve months). The focus of the group sessions is prevention and support for clients. recommendations for continuing care may include a broad range of services to address client’s physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health, including (but not limited to):
1. Specific and measurable client involvement in the event that accountability by the participant is required for any case management or monitoring organization (i.e., circuit courts, offices of probation, Office of the Illinois Secretary of State, parole officers, employers, etc.) 2. Community recovery support services that will maintain support and enhance progress made in treatment. 3. Psychiatric care 4. Appointments with primary physician and/or specialists 5. Family support groups. 6. Nutritional counseling. 7. Involvement in physical activity.
We believe that treatment is only the beginning of changing. Our counselors not only work with the client to develop a comprehensive continuing care plan, but they also facilitate the family's continuing care plans as well.
WHAT IS ANGER?
Anger is "an emotional state that varies in intensity from mild irritation to intense fury and rage,"Like other emotions, it is accompanied by physiological and biological changes;
ANGER INVOLVES A FEW DIFFERENT COMPONENTS
§ Your emotions. This component of anger involves feelings such as sadness, disappointment or frustration.
§ Your body. Anger can cause physical signs and symptoms, such as muscle tension, increased heart rate and increased blood pressure as your body releases adrenaline.
§ Your thinking. How you think can cause or worsen anger, or it can help you cope with it in a healthy way.
WHAT CAUSES PEOPLE TO BECOME ANGRY?
People today are faced with multiple stressors — bills, drugs, peer pressure, racial conflicts, health care issues, or legal problems. There’s a lot of stress in society in general and in our personal lives as well. There are so many things to feel threatened about, and some people respond in a negative way.
EXPRESSING ANGER
The instinctive, natural way to express anger is to reponse aggressively. Anger is a natural,adaptative response to threats; it inspires powerful, often a aggressive feelings and behaviors, which allow us to fight and to defend ourselves when we are attacked. A certain amount of anger, therefore, is necessary to our survival.
Some people express anger in ways that are not helpful to them, and that also make life very uncomfortable, maybe even painful, for others. For these people, the problem is not that they get angry; after all, everyone gets angry sometimes. The problem is how they express their anger. People in this category will benefit greatly from taking an anger management classes.
TYPES OF ANGER
1. Behavioral Anger. This type of anger is comprised of aggressive and cruel actions. It inclines mostly on the physical aspect. It usually implies an attack towards the subject of the anger, usually a person. It is expressed through trouble-making, physical attack and defiance.
2. Verbal anger. This type of anger, on the other hand, merely uses words and not actions. It is expressed mostly by openly speaking insulting words and hurtful criticisms. Accusing somebody of a crime or of a wrong-doing is also an example of verbal anger.
3. Passive Anger. Passive anger is shown mostly through mockery, or through avoiding a certain instance. People who are displaying this type of anger are not showing their anger outright but are devising covert ways of expressing it. They do not confront a person or a situation.
4. Self-inflicted anger. This type of anger is the one that is directed toward a person’s own body. Sometimes, people showing this type of anger tend to starve themselves or eat too much, for example. These are the people into the idea of punishing their own self for something wrong they have done.
5. Chronic anger. People with chronic anger are just angry in general. They are angry with their lives, with their selves, with the people around them and the whole world in general. They don’t necessarily have a definite reason why. Most of the time, they are just angry for apparently no reason at all.
6. Judgmental anger. This type of anger would lead somebody to hurtfully shame the people around him, like his family, friends and neighbors. He expresses his anger by putting others down and belittling their abilities as a person.
7. Overwhelmed anger. This type of anger is seen on people that hate the situations happening around them that directly affect their lives. They usually shout or lash out at someone or something easily. They do so because that’s their way of relieving the stress and the pain they are feeling.
8. Constructive anger. This type of anger is the type that makes people want to go out and join groups and movements. And they usually do it because they wanted to do something to correct a certain situation. They wanted to make a positive change. And that’s the main effect of this type of anger.
9. Volatile Anger. This type of anger is the one that easily comes and goes. The magnitude of this anger varies too. It could build into a rage, or it could be a mild, sudden anger. It could explode abruptly, or it could go unseen. It all depends on the person controlling the anger. This type is expressed either by verbal or physical assault.
10. Retaliatory anger. This type of anger is the most common one. Usually people get angry because other people are angry at them. This anger depends mainly on the other person. If your anger is due to a person lashing out at you, then you are guilty of this type of anger.
11. Paranoid Anger. This anger arises if a person feels, in an irrational way, that they are intimidated by others. People with this type of anger feel and think that other people wanted to take what is rightfully theirs. They are angry toward that person because, for one, they are jealous.
12. Deliberate Anger. This type of anger is shown by people who would like to gain control over a situation. They are mostly not angry at first. But they will be once you have shown that you are against what they have planned and what they would like to happen. They use anger to gain power over somebody or something.
These are the most common types of anger. Determine what type your anger is. Then harness it accordingly
STAFF QUALIFICATIONS:
Our counselors are certified by the National Anger Management Association (NAMA), they are Certified as Anger Management Trainers (CAMT)
Our Anger Management classes are provided in English, Spanish and Polish
CONTACT US SPEAK WITH OUR PROFESSIONAL STAFF
LOCATIONS
6254 W. Addison St. Chicago, IL. 60634 Fax:(773) 481-9755 Tel: (773) 481- 9750
We are here to serve you, and is our hope that this experience will bring constructive changes into your life, and will make you a happier, brighter and more successful person.
