Children often struggle to cope with anger, and angry feelings can boil over into aggression and destructive behaviour. This resource takes a different approach to anger, teaching children how to be angry effectively, rather than telling them not to be angry at all.
This group program provides step-by-step guidelines for building anger management and assertive emotional expression skills through tailored lessons, group activities and thought-provoking discussions. Participants will learn specific skills such as:
Suitable for use with children and teenagers aged 5—18, this engaging resource will help children to overcome self-destructive patterns of passive, aggressive, and passive aggressive behaviour. It will be of great use to educators, counsellors, social workers, youth care professionals, psychologists and parents.
Foreword by Nicholas J. Long.
Introduction.
About this book.
Part 1: Exploring Anger Behaviors.
Part 2: Developing Assertive Anger Expression Skills.
Part 3: Committing to Assertive Anger Expression.
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