Anger

Anger: A strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility.

Anger Management: The process of learning to recognize signs that you're becoming angry and taking action to calm down and deal with the situation in a productive way.

Coping strategies: An action, a series of actions, or a thought process used in meeting a stressful or unpleasant situation or in modifying one’s reaction to such a situation; a conscious or direct approach to problems.

• Personal Anger Assessment

  The following assessment is designed to help you understand how you manage your anger.

ACTIVITIES

• For Parents - Communicating Validation

• Validating your child' anger is NOT agreeing with it, it's helping them feel heard, seen, and valued. 

• 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.

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

• Tantrums

  Identifying anger in your kids .

• S.T.A.R

  How to smile , take a deep breath and relax.

• Explosive behavior

  How to address anger in kids.

• Managing anger

  Copy skills to help parents.

• Parenting with Love and Limits YouTube Channel for Parents

  Parenting with Love and Limits YouTube Channel for parents.

• 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.

Anger: A strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility

Anger Management: the process of learning to recognize signs that you're becoming angry, and taking action to calm down and deal with the situation in a productive way.

Coping strategies: an action, a series of actions, or a thought process used in meeting a stressful or unpleasant situation or in modifying one’s reaction to such a situation; a conscious or direct approach to problems

• 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

• 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

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

• InspirED Students Skills Building

  Social and emotional skills building activities designed by Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.

• Dealing With Anger

  How to be in control of your emotions 

• Train Your Temper

  Taking charge of anger.