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Description of
Content:
This course will cover some
current theories addressing the cause of violent and explosive anger not usually
found in the therapeutic setting. It
will also offer effective treatment approaches to clients’/patients’ violent
anger. These approaches have been
tested and utilized successfully with convicted perpetrators for 10 years.
Issues of physiological and psychological responses to violent anger will
be addressed. The therapist’s
reactions to the angry client will be reviewed in the context of the therapeutic
setting. Issues of therapist
safety, respect and trust will be covered.
Role-play will be utilized to reinforce the presented treatment
approaches.
Goals and Objectives:
Goal:
This course will present the complex issues involved in assessing,
confronting, resolving and surviving a client’s violent anger.
Participants will become familiar with issues of fear, pain, respect,
trust and safety as they relate to the client and to themselves.
Objectives:
Participants will understand some of the possible causes of violent anger
and their options in assessing and treating their clients.
They will be aware of physiological and psychological safety strategies
to utilize and they will be able to recognize, and assist their clients’ to
recognize, early signs of violent anger. They
will also develop skills to assist the client to recognize and express this
violent feeling in a cost-effective manner.
Syllabus/Time (six hours) Outline:
| 9:00am - 9:30am |
Review of violent/ angry incidents involving therapists and clients, Examples of current responses to violent/angry behavior; |
| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Review
of psychological and physiological responses to violent/angry feelings, Definition of terms; |
| 10:30am - 10:45am | Break |
| 10:45am - 12:00 | Some current theories on the psychological basis of anger and its violent demonstration: Arnold Goldberg, M.D., Otto Kernberg, M.D., Sheila Sharpe, Ph.D.; |
| 12:00 - 1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm - 1:30pm |
Foundations of Anger, Manipulation and Codependency, Power and Control, Assertiveness vs. Aggressiveness; |
| 1:30pm - 2:00pm |
Effective communication with a violent/angry client, Maintaining personal safety with an violent/angry client, Respect and trust in the therapeutic relationship; |
| 2:00pm - 2:15pm | Break |
| 2:15pm - 3:15pm |
Tools of effective anger management, Confrontation in a healthy manner; |
| 3:15pm - 4:00pm | Role-play
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