Where to Find Anger Management Courses

Writen by Steve Hill

You may have a Hollywood image of anger management courses based on recent films that depict the encounters in humorous ways. But anger management is actually a serious approach to tackling a difficult problem. Everyone gets angry at times, usually in varying degrees and for differing reasons. But some people seem to have less control than others, and their rage can explode to a damaging or even a dangerous extent. Anger management courses are designed to help those individuals regain control over volatile emotions.

Where Do You Find Anger Management Courses?

Sometimes uncontrolled anger is a symptom of another, deeper problem. This may be related to the person’s victimization from childhood or adult abuse, a personality disorder, a hormone imbalance, or an unhealthy relationship, just to name a few possible causes. Anger management courses may address just the anger aspect, or they may include education about underlying issues like these. Much will depend on the course’s facilitator or coordinator’s training as to which topics can be covered in the sessions. When larger issues are included, the classes may be called something other than anger management courses; for example, they may be termed behavior control classes, or something along those lines. You may want to browse the telephone directory’s yellow pages under sections like emotions, anger control, behavior self-help, and related terms to see what type of groups are meeting in your area. Then you can get in touch with their leaders to find out whether anger management training will be included.

Another way to find anger management courses in your area is to contact a social services organization or self-help programs to see if they either sponsor or have information about anger management courses. There is a good chance that one or more of these programs can point you in the right direction. Often, these programs work together, and many of the staff are familiar with sessions offered by other groups.

You also may want to contact local churches, YMCA programs, and libraries or civic centers that sponsor related types of self-help classes. If they do not already offer anger management courses, they may be willing to help you organize one, or at least publicize a sign-up sheet to see if there is enough interest to warrant a start-up class.

One of the best ways to track key information, people, and locations connected to anger management courses is by doing an Internet search. Use Yahoo or another search engine to visit anger management websites that can provide tips on recognizing warning signs, self-help practices, and finding clinical support. Check out sites like anger-management-information.com (site is not complete yet) to learn more about this potentially devastating condition that affects not just your life, but the lives of others with whom you live, work, and socialize.

Enrolling in anger management courses reflects well on your willingness to take responsibility for your actions and become proactive in dealing with anger issues. Take advantage of the many types of anger management assistance that are available to those who make time to explore the available options.

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Can Alcoholics Become Former Alcoholics?

Writen by El Veasey

Twelve step approaches tell their members to admit their powerlessness over their addictions and to rely on a higher power to assist them in accomplishing what they can’t do for themselves: stop using and maintain themselves in a perpetual state of recovery. They say this higher power can be anything the addicts choose: a chair, a tree, a sponsor, an idea, etc. If it’s up to the addicts to decide who or what their higher power is, does that higher power have an existence outside of the addicts’ choices or beliefs? So who or what is the real higher power?

On the one hand addicts are told to give up trying to use their personal power, to admit powerlessness and depend on a higher power to help them. Then they’re told to use that personal power they’ve been asked to give up, to choose a higher power, which is really that personal power given up, projected as a higher power outside of themselves! The real higher power is a projection of the addicts’ beliefs about a higher power though they aren’t aware of this!

Sounds like good psychology and apparently it works for lots of people, judging by the proliferation of twelve step groups and programs in existence! (Although it doesn’t seem to work for those who can’t get into the religious aspect of depending on a higher power over one’s own strengths and efforts.) Except that it dupes addicts into thinking that, they have no personal power to use to help overcome their addictions by their own efforts! When in reality, they’re coaxed into using that personal power in an indirect way!

The emphasis should be on helping addicts to open up to a greater wisdom and maturity than to a higher power! Having power without wisdom is not good!) They should be focusing on becoming more aware of when they’re allowing their biases, immaturities and dependencies to stop them from doing what’s best for them to do and then do it! This would be more beneficial to addicts in the long run because, their essential problem is their lack of wisdom, immaturity and emotional dependency on others!

The idea that “once an alcoholic always an alcoholic” and “The alcoholism is a disease” concept, are preconceptions that stereotype all alcoholics as having a genetic defect they can never overcome! All they can do is seek treatment and struggle for the rest of their lives to stay sober! They never recover! They’re always recovering and subject to relapsing!

There is a controversy going on between those who believe that some people are born alcoholics, will always be alcoholics and the best they can do is to remain in a treatment program for the rest of their lives! And between those who believe that there is no genetic test that proves that one is born an alcoholic and that it’s possible for many alcoholics to return to non-alcoholic functioning again!

Group one believes that alcoholics have a genetic defect, an incurable disease—– they’re sick; no matter how well they may be doing, they have a disease and are always in danger of relapsing!

Group two believes that although it’s possible that some alcoholics may have a genetic propensity for alcohol, that most of them learned to become alcoholics, because drinking is a commonly observed behavior in our culture! That drinking is observed in the home, in the movies, on television, in advertising and among peers. Others are observed drinking to relax, to have fun, to feel confidant, to cope with stress and with emotional traumas. That alcoholism is a learned behavior and can be unlearned!

Group one believes that alcoholics need to be in a 12-step program, they need sponsors! They need to accept that alcoholism is a disease and depend on a higher power, in order to be helped!

Group two believes that 12-step programs work for some but not all people! That other approaches like group therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy and learning to become emotionally self-dependent can also be effective, that some alcoholics recover without any treatment at all or with self-help methods!

Groups that support the alcoholism is a disease concept seems to have helped numerous people with alcohol problems. They probably could help many more if the disease concept wasn’t so dogmatically adhered to! It turns many people off! (These groups may have a learned propensity for believing that alcoholics have a genetic predisposition for alcohol abuse.)

It discourages some people, when they hear “alcoholics” with years of “clean time” still calling themselves alcoholics and still feeling that they may be in danger of a relapsing at any time! Some see this as a bleak future to look forward to! They say, “If after all of the struggling I’ve had to go through to get sober, I’m never going to get to the point where I’m no longer in danger of relapsing what’s the point! It’s not worth it! I might as well drink!

Group one views all alcoholics’ potential to recover as being the same ——zero!

Group two allows for variation in alcoholics’ potential to recover and believes that you can’t predict who can or can’t recover before hand!

Which of these groups is right?

If you have a problem with compulsive drinking which way would you rather it be assumed? That you have a disease that you can never recover from or that your case should be examined on an individual basis and to see if you have the potential to recover to non- alcoholic functioning!

You decide!

El Veasey holds Ph.Ds in counseling, political critiques and psycho-social commentary from the University Of Hardknocks Ghetto Town, USA.

Email: elveasey at yahoo.com
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Anger Management: 7 Tips to Get on Top

Writen by Jeff Herring

Q. I recently went to an anger-management seminar at my office. Most of it was about the theory of anger and where it comes from, without really anything much about what to do about anger. Can you just give me a quick list of things to do beside get angry?

A. Sure can. Here is a short list of what you can do instead of getting angry. This gives you choices, and choices are what you need.

• Pause and ask “is this really worth getting angry about?”
• Remember that anger is a normal human emotion. Feeling angry is not the problem, it’s what we do with our anger that makes the difference.
• What you do with your anger is always a choice, which means you can gain control of it and make better choices.
• Find someone to talk it out with. What we don’t talk about, we act out.
• Anger is a secondary emotion, which means we feel something else before the anger. The something else is usually frustration, hurt or fear. Deal with what you are really feeling, and you cut off or bypass the anger.
• Exercise

discharging the energy that comes with
anger can defuse and drain the anger right out of you.

• Count to 10. When necessary, keep counting.

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