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Many books on anger management include extensive exercises and practice worksheets, and offer dozens of therapeutic techniques for getting rage under control. Readers who lack the time or patience to work through these books are left to their own devices and continue suffering with out-of-control anger. Thankfully, there are simple and proven-effective ways to come to terms with anger, many of which can be learned in just one hour. Anger: The Zip Book is a simple solution, a pocket guide designed to appeal to those readers see... read more

From the bestselling author of When Anger Hurts, Matthew McKay, Ph.D., and ACT experts Georg Eifert, Ph.D. and John P. Forsyth, Ph.D., comes the first bookto provide ACT principles and techniques for dealing with anger, and to teach readers how to change their relationship with, and response to, anger by developing compassion for themselves and others.

This guide offers conflict management advice to adults and teens. The techniques illustrated encourage users to turn their anger around to interact peacefully and productively with associates and family. Leaders learn how to conduct presentations, guide discussions, and help participants understand the purposes and pitfalls of anger and how to channel it into constructive and useful actions.

This workbook addresses the unique concerns of women with anger problems. Rigid social patterning, the book argues, conditions many women to stifle or deny their anger, and this repression can cause a range of other psychological problems. Others experience violent, outwardly focused anger. Whichever pattern your anger follows, you'll learn healthier ways to express your anger from this workbook. Building on women's tendency to be more relational than men, this book advocates interactive techniques as a primary method of anger m... read more

This book, a major revision of a best-selling classic has helped tens of thousands of people overcome problem anger. The book is organized to move readers along the shortest path to recovery. They learn to make the author's eight-step process of anger management a powerful force for change in their lives.

A unique approach to male anger management using mindfulness, compassion, and self-awareness exercises to help men understand and deal with angry feelings that can damage their careers and relationships. More Than Anger Management-A Way to a Better Life If anger is harming your health and hurting the people you love and care about the most, you need to make the decision to get your anger under control. You've stopped the seething and shouting, but that's just like putting a lid on a boiling pot. What you need to do is replace yo... read more

How do you express your anger? Do you blow up? Quietly seethe? Or do you try to pretend that you're really not angry at all and just hope the feelings will go away? Most of us express anger in more than one way, but we also tend to be creatures of habit, falling back on a few predictable styles when we feel angry. Unfortunately, while some styles are appropriate in some situations, others are not-and consistently using an inappropriate style is a sure way to find yourself saddled with a huge anger problem. This book examines the e... read more

It's been reported that around seven per cent of adults may suffer from a problem called intermittent explosive disorder (IED) during their lives. This disorder involves episodes of rage so intense that relationships, jobs, property and even lives can be lost in a single outburst. IED sufferers often report that they even lose conscious awareness of their behaviour during these episodes. Obviously anyone who is stricken with diagnosable IED or even subclincial fits of rage needs help, and they need it as soon as possible. Unique i... read more

Renowned anger expert Ron Potter-Efron makes anger control a manageable skill that anybody can learn. Through an engaging combination of incisive questions, realistic scenarios, and interactive strategies, his workbook helps people gain an awareness of angry thoughts, feelings, and actions. Thirty-six exercises help readers learn what triggers anger, how to recognize and avoid danger situations, how to diffuse anger when it flares up, and how to turn rage into energy for finding solutions. The book also offers relaxation techniques... read more

You can feel it when it hits you. Your face flushes and your vision narrows. Your heartbeat increases as judgemental thoughts flood your mind. Your anger has been triggered, and you are about to say or do something that will likely make it worse. You have an alternative. By practising the Non-violent Communication (NVC) process you can use that anger to serve a specific, life-enriching purpose. It tells you that you're disconnected from what you value and that your needs are not being met. Rather than managing your anger by suppres... read more

Written by two well-regarded experts in the field, "The Anger Control Workbook" introduces a new and radically simplified approach to anger control. Step-by-step exercises aid readers in identifying, understanding, responding to, and ultimately coping with their hostile feelings. 50 worksheets.

In recent years neuroscientists have discovered that the heart has its own intelligence, a complex independent nervous system that is referred to as "the brain in the heart." Getting the heart into a positive rhythm can directly send a signal to the brain, allowing the two to synchronize and literally transform anger, frustration, and irritation into compassion, empathy, and calm. In Transforming Anger, we learn how thoughts and feelings get stored in the nervous system and create cellular triggers of irritation, frustration, and a... read more

This step-by-step guide provides information on how to refocus attention when angry and create satisfying outcomes for everyone. If one can avoid moralistic judgments about the wrongness of the other person’s behavior, anger can become as a life-enriching emotion and a window into personal needs and values.

You’ve lost control, yelled or slapped your childL Later you’ve felt guilty but you’ve got angry again Then this book is for you!

Psychologists Kim Paleg and Matthew McKay offer couples a variety of tools and strategies to reduce conflict, diffuse rage, and move beyond repeated confrontations to regain a loving relationship. Each chapter presents proven techniques to help couples experience respectful anger, reconcile differences, and begin to heal.

This book is a complete, step-by-step guide to changing habitual, anger-generating thoughts while developing healthier, more effective ways of meeting needs. It is ideal for therapists who work with families or teach anger control and helpful for health professionals who treat the effects of type A personality.

When confronted with a confrontational situation, some people feel that to express anger is to risk losing control. Panic attacks, depression, headaches, and chronic pain often plague people who deny themselves a constructive outlet for their anger. This book includes exercises and techniques for developing constructive anger expression.