BrainAbouts: About Anger Management
BrainAbouts Video
Handouts
About Anger Management
Definitions & Discussion Questions
About Anger Management
The Facts & Stats
Other Videos
Family Coaching
DEFINITIONS
Parent Coaching: Helping parents with parenting challenges by offering alternative perspectives about family situations, creating strategies to prevent youth high-risk behavior, and developing family dynamics that achieve balanced parenting goals.
Prevention Planning: Use this section to plan your prevention activities and prevention discussions regarding this topic.
TAKE A QUIZ
Personal Anger Assessment
The following assessment is designed to help you understand how you manage your anger.
Anger Quiz
Use this short screening test to help determine if you should seek help (diagnosis and treatment) for anger problems.
ACTIVITIES
Videos
Activities
Behavior Modification Contract Example
Use this B-Mod Contract example after watching the BrainAbouts video About Behavior Modification to help create your behavior modification plan.
B-Modification Contract
Use this blank B-Mod Contract example after watching the BrainAbouts video About Behavior Modification to help create your behavior modification plan.
Use Validating Language
Validating a young person's anger is NOT agreeing with it. Learn and use the six levels of validating language when communicating with an angry youth. Example of a validation sandwich, "I see how angry you are. It is not okay to yell. However, I would be angry if I were in the same situation."
Determine if it is Typical or Troubled
Use this checklist to determine if your child's anger is typical or if it indicates trouble. If trouble, contact your local youth counselor.
Play an Anger Management Board Game
Mad Dragon: An Anger Control Card Game is designed for children aged 6 to 12.
Watch Meditation Videos from Stress Free Kids
Stress Free Kids YouTube Channel is filled with videos to help kids decrease stress, anxiety and anger.
Links
Managing Anger
Managing anger resources from Coping Skills for Kids.com
Anger Games: 14 Fun Ways to Learn Anger Management Skills
Article from Very Special Talkes Parenting about a variety of fun ways to teach anger management skills.
Find a Love & Logic Trainer
Locate a Love & Logic Trainer to help you create a parent plan if you have a child who acts out in anger.
Behavior Modification Contract - Blank
Use this blank B-Mod contract to create behavioral expectations with your child.
Behavior Modification Contract - Extinction Burst
Critical to a successful behavior modification contract is knowing what an extinction burst is and how to wait it out.
RESOURCES
Organizations
Parenting with Love and Logic
The Love and Logic Institute is dedicated to making parenting and teaching fun and rewarding, instead of stressful and chaotic. We provide practical tools and techniques that help adults achieve respectful, healthy relationships with their children.
The Gottman Institute
A research-based approach to relationships including an emotion coaching program, new parent workshops, and parenting tools.
The Incredible Years
The parenting programs are grouped according to age: babies (0-12 months), toddlers (1-3 years), preschoolers (3-6 years), and school age (6-12 years).
Readings & Research
Six Steps to an Emotionally Intelligent Teenager
Six Steps to an Emotionally Intelligent Teenager: Teaching Social Skills to Your Teen (1999) by James Windell
Parenting with Love and Limits YouTube Channel for Parents
Parenting with Love and Limits YouTube Channel for parents.
Healthy Anger: How to Help Children and Teens Manage Their Anger
Healthy Anger: How to Help Children and Teens Manage Their Anger, 2006 by Bernard Golden
Top 10 SEL Books for Parents
Casel's Jennifer Miller recommends top social and emotional books for parents.
Sibling Rivalry
Read or listen to an article about sibling rivalry by Dr. Jennifer Shroff Pendley from KidsHealth.
The Explosive Child
The Explosive Child, 5th Edition: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, chronically Inflexible Children (2014) by Ross Greene, PhD is a groundbreaking approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other intractable behaviors.
Student Engagement
DEFINITIONS
Student Engagement: Engaging students in the learning process to increase understanding and motivattion to practice higher-level critical thinking skills about high-risk behavior.
Prevention Planning: Use this section to find information, activities, discussion and fact handouts, as well as access to research about this topic.
TAKE A QUIZ
Personal Anger Assessment
The following assessment is designed to help you understand how you manage your anger.
Anger Quiz
Use this short screening test to help determine if you should seek help (diagnosis and treatment) for anger problems.
ACTIVITIES
Activities
Use the Anger Thermometer
Analyze the levels of your angry feelings and plan the anger management techniques you can use for each level with the Anger Thermometer.
Lemons or Lemonade Anger Workbook for Teens
Learn how to express anger appropriately.
I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Mad
I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Mad contains forty activities for issues such as recognizing anger triggers, better problem solving, and communication tips for defusing conflict before it gets out of hand.
Call or Text a Teen Help Line
TEEN LINE is a non-profit, community based organization that provides emotional support to youth. It is our mission to provide peer based education and support before problems become a crisis, using a national hotline, community outreach and online support.
Links
Atlas of Emotion
Use this interactive tool to build your emotional awareness, understand why you are feeling a certain way, and gain greater control over your emotions and responses.
Wellcast Video Series
Twice-a-week quirky, animated show, explores the physical, mental and emotional paths to wellness with bi-weekly journaling exercises that helps you apply what you've learned. The ultimate goal: one year, one show, one journal, one collective journey to wellness.
The Mood Meter App
A self awareness app based on decades of research from Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Tell your Mood Meter mobile app how you feel and build emotional intelligence that lasts a lifetime. $0.99
RESOURCES
Organizations
Headspace
Headspace offers mindfulness skills training and meditations to help deal with anger, stress, anxiety, sleep, and self-esteem.
KidsHealth and TeensHealth
KidsHealth and TeenHealth are dedicated to helping young people make the best health choices. Websites include articles, videos, and health tools with sections just for kids and teens.
Readings & research
Angry Octopus - Ages 5-10
Angry Octopus: Children Learn How to Control Anger, Reduce Stress and Fall Asleep Faster (2019) by Lori Lite teaches children how to use progressive muscle relaxation and breathing techniques to calm down, lower stress, and control anger.
Don't Rant & Rave on Wednesdays! - Ages 7-11
Don't Rant and Rave on Wednesdays!: The Children's Anger-Control Book (1994) by Adolph Moser discusses the causes and effects of anger and provides advice on how to control and channel it.
What to Do When Your Temper Flares - Ages 9-12
What to Do When Your temper Flares: a Kid's Guide to Overcoming problems with Anger (2007) by Dawn Huebner guides young people through cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat problems with anger.
Staff Topic Material
DEFINITIONS
Faculty Topic Material: Section dedicated to putting prevention topic material at faculty and school staff's fingertips. Material in these sections includes Universal (Tier I), Selective (Tier II), and Indicated (Tier III & IV) activity ideas, resources, and research relevant to a particular high-risk topic or skill.
Prevention Planning: Use the Faculty Topic Material section to help plan prevention activities for the whole school, faculty in-service, group counseling, and individual & family engagement.
ACTIVITIES
Activities
Anger Thermometer Activity
Watch the anger thermometer video and fill out the anger thermometer as a tool to help teach a vareity of anger management skills.
Anger Management Mods - COMING SOON!
Use the BrainAbouts Anger Management Mods individually or in a group to learn about anger and practice anger management techniques.
Anger Warning Signs & Anger Thermometer Video
Watch a video about anger and use the anger thermometer template to learn and create anger managment strategies.
Play an Anger Management Board Game
Play an anger management game like the Anger Defuser: The Fun Anger Management Game for Kids and Teens to make learning fun.
Prepare a Calming Box
Create a calming box with your child or teen as a practical strategy that will facilitate kids' self-soothing.
Links
FisT Anger Management Group - Age 8-11
This program is for children age 8-11 who have difficulty expressing strong emotions and dealing with interpersonal relationships.
Kimochis®
Use Kimochis® emotional learning tools and get free resources.
Videos by Ahmed Elshraby
Short films by Ahmed Elshraby YouTube channel. In class or at home, click on Watch Do Not Be Angry or Watch Your Feelings to generate a discussion about anger.
Use an Anger Thumball
Use an Anger Thumball in individual, group, or classroom environments to gain insights about different types of anger, increase anger control skills, and have fun in the process!
Anger Bingo for Teens
Anger Bingo for Teens: an Engaging and Educational game About Anger and Ways to Manage It
RESOURCES
Videos
Organizations
Parenting with Love and Limits
Founded in 2001 as a direct result of field research by Model Developer Dr. Scott P. Sells, PLL combines a family systems approach with parent and youth skills training and family therapy.
Parenting with Love and Logic`
Founded in 2001 as a direct result of field research by Model Developer Dr. Scott P. Sells, PLL combines a family systems approach with parent and youth skills training and family therapy.
Tools for Getting Along
An anger management through social problem solving curriculum for upper elementary students. This 26-lesson curriculum is designed to help upper elementary school teachers establish a positive, cooperative classroom atmosphere.
The Incredible Years
The Incredible Beginnings® program is for leaders of teachers and child care providers of children ages 1-5 years old.
Merrell's Strong Kids
Strong Kids™ curricula is a fun, affordable way to help your students develop the social-emotional skills they need to manage their challenges and succeed in school and life from K-12.
Links
Overcoming Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Overcoming Oppositional Defiant Disorder: A Two-Part Treatment Plan to Help Parents and Kids Work Together, 2019 by Gina Atencio-MacLean PsyD
Parenting with Love and Limits Model Overview
Watch a video describing the Parenting with Love and Limits program model.
Parenting with Love and Logic Webinars for Educators
Parenting with Love and Logic webinars for educators.
Parenting with Love and Logic Webinars for Educators
Parenting with Love and Logic YouTube channel for educators.