COURSE 4J - ANGER MANAGEMENT: A COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY MANUAL

Course overview

This 4-credit hour course on 'Anger Management for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Clients: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Manual' is certified for DOMESTIC VIOLENCE and is accessed free of charge through an internet link to the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. This is DHHS Publication No. 07-4008, originally printed in 2002, and republished in 2007. INTRODUCTION FROM THE PUBLISHERS: 'Despite the connection of anger and violence to substance abuse, few treatments have been developed to address anger and violence problems among people who abuse substances. To provide clinicians with tools to help deal with this important issue, [we are] pleased to present Anger Management for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Clients: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Manual ..... The anger management treatment design in this manual, which has been delivered to hundreds of clients over the past 8 years, has been popular with both clinicians and clients. This treatment design can be used in a variety of clinical settings and will be beneficial to the field.' GOALS AND FOCUS OF THIS COURSE: The treatment model described in this manual is a combined CBT approach that employs relaxation, cognitive, and communication skills interventions. The Goals .... Readers learn the four types of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) interventions most often used when treating anger disorders and how to implement them - particularly in the context of anger which becomes abusive and violent toward spouses and other family members, co-workers, and friends: 1. Relaxation interventions, which target emotional and physiological components of anger 2. Cognitive interventions, which target cognitive processes such as hostile appraisals and attributions, irrational beliefs, inflammatory thinking, particularly in the context of anger which becomes abusive and violent toward spouses and other family members, co-workers, and friends. 3. Communication skills interventions, which target deficits in assertiveness and conflict resolution skills 4. Combined interventions, which integrate two or more CBT interventions and target multiple response domains. This combined approach presents participating clients with options that draw on these different interventions and then encourages them to develop individualized anger control plans using as many of the techniques as possible.