The Practitioner's Guide to Anger Management: Customizable Interventions, Treatments, and Tools for Clients with Problem Anger

The SMART approach to treating problem anger

As a therapist, you know that every client experiences anger in a different way. That’s why it’s so important to customize your treatment plan using the best tools available. Based on Howard Kassinove and Raymond C. Tafrate’s innovative and modular SMART (Selection Menu for Anger Reduction Treatment) model for treating anger, this groundbreaking professional’s manual offers an array of strategies to help you create an individualized treatment plan tailored to your client and their specific needs.

With this powerful, evidence-based guide, you’ll learn how to help clients understand and manage unhealthy anger. You’ll find motivational interviewing techniques, strategies for engaging clients in therapy, and tools for incorporating different treatment methods—such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)—into your sessions. Also included is direction for case formulation and treatment planning, as well as links to downloadable handouts, worksheets, and sample scripts that can be incorporated into real-world sessions. Using the effective SMART model outlined in this book, you can help your clients gain control over anger, successfully regulate their emotions, and live better lives.

Discover SMART interventions to help clients:

  • Identify and alter anger triggers
  • Enhance motivation and awareness
  • Overcome impulsive urges
  • Alter lifestyle habits
  • Build distress tolerance
  • Improve communication skills
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The Practitioner's Guide to Anger Management: Customizable Interventions, Treatments, and Tools for Clients with Problem Anger

The SMART approach to treating problem anger

As a therapist, you know that every client experiences anger in a different way. That’s why it’s so important to customize your treatment plan using the best tools available. Based on Howard Kassinove and Raymond C. Tafrate’s innovative and modular SMART (Selection Menu for Anger Reduction Treatment) model for treating anger, this groundbreaking professional’s manual offers an array of strategies to help you create an individualized treatment plan tailored to your client and their specific needs.

With this powerful, evidence-based guide, you’ll learn how to help clients understand and manage unhealthy anger. You’ll find motivational interviewing techniques, strategies for engaging clients in therapy, and tools for incorporating different treatment methods—such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)—into your sessions. Also included is direction for case formulation and treatment planning, as well as links to downloadable handouts, worksheets, and sample scripts that can be incorporated into real-world sessions. Using the effective SMART model outlined in this book, you can help your clients gain control over anger, successfully regulate their emotions, and live better lives.

Discover SMART interventions to help clients:

  • Identify and alter anger triggers
  • Enhance motivation and awareness
  • Overcome impulsive urges
  • Alter lifestyle habits
  • Build distress tolerance
  • Improve communication skills
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The Practitioner's Guide to Anger Management: Customizable Interventions, Treatments, and Tools for Clients with Problem Anger

The Practitioner's Guide to Anger Management: Customizable Interventions, Treatments, and Tools for Clients with Problem Anger

The Practitioner's Guide to Anger Management: Customizable Interventions, Treatments, and Tools for Clients with Problem Anger

The Practitioner's Guide to Anger Management: Customizable Interventions, Treatments, and Tools for Clients with Problem Anger

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The SMART approach to treating problem anger

As a therapist, you know that every client experiences anger in a different way. That’s why it’s so important to customize your treatment plan using the best tools available. Based on Howard Kassinove and Raymond C. Tafrate’s innovative and modular SMART (Selection Menu for Anger Reduction Treatment) model for treating anger, this groundbreaking professional’s manual offers an array of strategies to help you create an individualized treatment plan tailored to your client and their specific needs.

With this powerful, evidence-based guide, you’ll learn how to help clients understand and manage unhealthy anger. You’ll find motivational interviewing techniques, strategies for engaging clients in therapy, and tools for incorporating different treatment methods—such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)—into your sessions. Also included is direction for case formulation and treatment planning, as well as links to downloadable handouts, worksheets, and sample scripts that can be incorporated into real-world sessions. Using the effective SMART model outlined in this book, you can help your clients gain control over anger, successfully regulate their emotions, and live better lives.

Discover SMART interventions to help clients:

  • Identify and alter anger triggers
  • Enhance motivation and awareness
  • Overcome impulsive urges
  • Alter lifestyle habits
  • Build distress tolerance
  • Improve communication skills

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781684032884
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Publication date: 12/01/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Howard Kassinove, PhD, ABPP, is a board-certified clinical psychologist, former chairperson of the psychology department at Hofstra University, and past director of their PhD program in clinical and school psychology. Kassinove is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Albert Ellis Institute, and the Behavior Therapy and Research Society. Editor of Anger Disorders, he has published more than sixty papers, and has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Raymond Chip Tafrate, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, and professor in the criminology and criminal justice department at Central Connecticut State University. He is a fellow and supervisor at the Albert Ellis Institute in New York City, NY; and a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. He frequently consults with criminal justice agencies and programs regarding difficult-to-change problems such as anger dysregulation and criminal behavior. He has coauthored numerous books, and has presented his research throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He is coauthor, with Howard Kassinove, of the popular self-help classic, Anger Management for Everyone.

Table of Contents

Online Resources v

Preface and Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

Part 1 Anger Treatment Basics

1 Anger Fundamentals and SMART Anger Management 12

2 The Initial Sessions: Engagement 32

Part 2 Case Formulation and Treatment Planning

3 The Anger Episode Model 54

4 Assessment 78

Part 3 Preparing Clients for Change

5 Enhancing Awareness and Motivation 108

6 Psychoeducation 127

Part 4 Interventions to Alter Anger Triggers

7 Lifestyle Changes 146

8 Sidestepping Provocations 163

9 Social and Personal Problem Solving 172

Part 5 Interventions to Change Thoughts: Accepting, Adapting, and Adjusting

10 Promoting Realistic Thoughts and an Accepting Philosophy 186

11 Perspective Taking, Compassion, and Forgiveness as Antidotes to Anger and Resentment 208

Part 6 Interventions to Alter Internal Experiences and Urges

12 Overcoming Impulsive Urges and Increasing Tolerance for Distress 230

13 Tolerating Negative Words and Thoughts: Barb Exposure 246

Part 7 Interventions to Alter Anger Expression

14 Social and Interpersonal Skills 260

15 Assertiveness Training: Awareness, Actions, and Words 268

Part 8 Going Beyond Anger Management and Putting It All Together

16 Happiness 282

17 Applying the SMART Model to a Sample Case 295

References 319

Index 335

Interviews

Tafrate resides in West Hartford, CT; Kassinove resides in Rancho Mirage, CA (Riverside County).

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