Anger management involves steadily increasing the level of maturity a child has with regard to both managing their emotions and being skilful enough to negotiate and collaborate with others in order to get to a win-win situation where both parties feel satisfied enough with the outcome. This manual offers a structured programme to achieve this.
Being able to choose an assertive behaviour option allows children to feel good about themselves and find reasonable ways to deal with difficult people and difficult situations. It also means they are more likely to be calmer and more open to reason than stressed and tense. And it will enable them to form deeper, more satisfying friendships because they are able to be more honest with themselves and other people.
Areas covered include:
The exercises allow practice in being assertive, including how to say “No!” confidently, and an assertiveness questionnaire enables you to monitor progress.
There are 10 one-hour session plans:
Each session plan details the aim, resources required, method, time to allocate and is accompanied by reproducible pupil and teacher sheets.