Aggression and Anger Reduction Initiatives

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This one-day course looks at anger. Anger is a major problem for those concerned, those around them and the professionals trying to help.

It can wreck the enjoyment potential of people's lives, lead to serious relationship break-ups and, in extreme cases, serious criminal offences. Trying to intervene can be frustrating and worrying.

This course aims to provide you with the most effective psychological interventions to help angry and violent people to change thus reducing the risk of aggressive behaviour.

Who Should Attend

Youth Workers, Social Workers, Doctors, CPN’s, Health Visitors, Drugs Workers, CARAT Workers, Prison Officers, Probation, Police, Resettlement Officers, Managers and anyone who comes into contact with the aforementioned client group.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will have knowledge of:

• The Nature of extreme anger and its effects
• People who don't believe their anger is a problem
• Deciding if anger and violence should form the main focus of the treatment, or if they are part of a broader problem e.g. depression
• How to help someone develop insight; some people who are relatively unaware of their anger
• How to help someone develop empathy for the recipient of their anger. Why this is important and how you can achieve it
• What when the person feels that to be angry is 'how they are'? And what when they say it is 'part of the job'
• The broader picture. In some situations others reinforce anger; the 'system' is maintaining it. How do you review the system?
• Interventions:
  • Basic biological factors such as tiredness can massively increase a person's irritability and anger
  • Self-talk, imagery and behaviour that can help the person withstand anger-provoking situations
  • Counting to 10'. While not sufficient in its own right this is an example of an important class of interventions
  • Building on Success. Many angry people have strategies that work well for them and can be expanded into recognised and effective interventions
  • Relaxation training. Used well this can be very effective.
  • Benign humour. Many angry people also have a keen sense of humour that you can use to help them. Use of humour also has major traps. We examine both
  • Cognitive Behavioural. Considerable success has been reported using CBT methods. And there are key skills to acquire if this is to be used effectively
• An Overview of working with irritable and angry people in the most effective ways, including choosing methods to match the person, and how you can obtain support

What this course will do for you

This course aims to introduce you to the nature of anger and how it may relate to an underlying problem such as depression.

It recognises the ambivalence that angry people have towards 'treatment'. Anger is one of the few emotions that many people report having mixed feelings about: partly it is a major problem; partly there is a positive aspect to it.

Most importantly though, it goes on to show how to handle that ambivalence, determine the best interventions, and work through the stages necessary to produce a good result.

This course is mapped to the relevant DANOS units. To enrol for this course, please fill in and return the TRR Booking Form.