Anger Management
Anger is an emotional state that varies in intensity from mild irritation to intense fury and rage. Like other emotions, it is accompanied by physiological and biological changes, affecting heart rate and blood pressure, and levels of energy hormones.
Anger can be triggered by events that are external (a supervisor at work or a traffic jam) or internal (worrying about personal problems or memory of a traumatic event). The lack of ability to manage the emotion and the body's triggered response can lead to serious consequences, such as abuse of self or others, or worse.
The goal of anger management is to reduce both the emotional feelings and the physiological arousal that anger causes. Most often, one can't get rid of, avoid, or change the things or people that enrage. But strategies are available to control reactions.
People use a variety of both conscious and unconscious processes to deal with their angry feelings. The three main techniques are:
- Expressing - a healthy ability to make clear what one's needs are and how to get them met without hurting others.
- Suppressing - a less healthy approach, converting or redirecting anger into more constructive behavior. The danger in this type of response is that if it isn't allowed outward expression, anger can turn inward, possibly causing hypertension, high blood pressure, or depression.
- Internal calming - an excellent response involving control, not only of outward behavior, but also of internal responses, taking steps to lower heart rate, calm down, and letting the feelings subside.
Our counselors can measure the intensity of angry feelings, how prone to anger a person is, and how well, and in what ways that person handles the emotion. These techniques are very effective in developing coping and management skills.
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