Professional Certification Training Huge Hit
The Anger Coach, in association with Century Anger Management, recently completed a very successful training at the Rescue team Ministry in Riverside, California. Participant feedback was excellent, praising our 8 tools model of anger management and our new certification program. Next live certification training will be in San Diego on Feburary 9th – 10th, 2007….
Cell Phone Use Increases Stress
From The American Institute Of Stress: “One might think that cell phones would reduce stress by facilitating contacting someone in an emergency or transmitting time urgent information but a recent study suggests otherwise. A sociology professor who followed more than 1300 people found that those who regularly used cell phones or pagers “experienced an increase…
Spousal Anger May Shorten Life
In a recent edition of “Stress Scoop”, research shows that happily married couples are healthier and live longer, possibly because they have less stress. “…a recent study showed that even if spouses usually get along well, the stress caused by a brief argument can slow healing of a surgical wound by as much as a…
Assaulted Teacher But Walks Free
Recent Article in news.com.au “A SYDNEY school student has avoided a custodial sentence for choking a female teacher in a classroom, after a court found he was deeply remorseful. The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had pleaded guilty at Bidura Children’s Court to assaulting the teacher at Randwick Boys High School on…
Holiday Stress Leads to Anger
Learning to deal with stress is one of the eight tools that is needed for anger control. Learning to deal with holiday stress is even more challenging because of the time crunch around the holidays and the need to deal with relatives who might not always be exactly at the top of your Christmas list….
Aggressive Response Triggers More Road Rage
According to new research published by the Response Insurance Company: Fully one-half of drivers who are subjected to aggressive driving behavior on the road respond with aggression of their own, thus risking a more serious confrontation. when a driver gets the finger, is cut off or tailgated, 50% of the victims respond with horn honking,…
Anger Tip-Spend Time With Buddies
Let’s face it, your family can’t satisfy all your needs all the time. So, it’s smart anger management to indulge in a boys night out or a girls night out. You relax and unwind in different ways when you socialize with members of the same sex. You can talk more openly than you do in…
Anger Tip- Don’t take sides
You may have noticed that your friends – or relatives – often try to enlist you on their side in conflicts they have with other people. Getting caught in the middle can be VERY stressful for you. Stay neutral, if you can, in office politics, family squabbles and interpersonal bickering. It’ll save you a world…
Road Rage Website Bad idea
Want to give an “award” to a good driver? How about warning a driver that his/her driving is rude or dangerous? Maybe you just want to flirt with someone you saw on the road. Perhaps you want to report to someone that something is wrong with their vehicle which is causing a physical hazard. All…
The AngerCoach Show – Episode 2 Aggressive Driving & Road Rage
This month’s episode deals with aggressive driving and road rage. Aggressive driving not only endangers people’s lives, but puts immense stress on our relationships with others. We talk about practical ways individuals can reduce stress and calm down while on the road, as well as ways of mitigating road related disagreements. We host Dr. Leon…
Anger can be NEW or OLD
One of our students found herself “going bananas” after a guest innocently left a gate open after leaving her house. Why the extreme reaction, we wondered. Turns out that she had a “history” with open gates. At age 6, her brother accidentally left a gate open which caused her favorite dog to escape and unfotunately…
Memories Depend on Focus
We teach our anger management students that often anger is generated by arguments with someone reagrding what happened in the past. As you probably know, two people (like a parent and child, or, two siblings) may have the same experience but remember it in quite different ways. Why is this? Often we suspect that the…
Angry Mom Kills Child
The costs of uncontrolled anger are high, as illustrated in the following tragic story reported in the 11Alive.com website in Atlanta: “Atlanta police said a Fulton County woman confessed to killing her 2-year-old daughter during a fit of anger. Investigators said 29-year-old Shandrell Banks told police that she became frustrated when her daughter, Nateyonna, would…
Looking For Aristotle Awards Nominees
It was Aristotle who said: “Anyone can be angry, that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right reason, and in the right way, this is not easy.” In this tradition, we are looking for nominees of people who have faced anger…
Reduce Anger by Asserting Yourself
This holiday season, you may find yourself in groups or gatherings that make you feel uncomfortable. Sometime you can change it without offending anyone, yet standing up for our rights or opinions. We call this “assertive communication.” When the tone of a social gathering becomes too confrontational, negative, lewd, insensitive, prejudiced, or otherwise distasteful, you…
Startlines can reduce stress
Forget about deadlines. How about startlines? For a society so obsessed with when a project gets finished,we’re curiously all too casual about when to get it started. And that can be the most critical factor of all. Which may explain why so many deadlines aren’t met. Instead of stressing over when something is due, focus…
Anger Detection Software Now Available
Often, anger is communicated in non-verbal behaviors such as voice tone, voice energy, and voice volume. Now, they have developed software to detect the emotion of anger by analyzing one’s voice. Reminds one of the computer HAL in Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2110: a Space Odyssey As reported in Life Science, Sigard, a new software package…
Anger At Work Linked To Stress
Some people say they know just what to do when their jobs becoming too stressful, but others feel stuck and frustrated. There are tears and confrontations which can lead to poor productivity, abuse of sick days, stealing supplies, and irritability or depression. Sometimes the stress and anger are due to home problems which the employee…
Road Rage to Work Sets Negative Tone For Day
A new survey puiblished by CareerBuilder.com confirms what we have suspected for a long time: most commuters admit to experiencing road rage while traveling to and from work. This may include yelling, horn-honking, and hand gestures which give your estimation of the IQ of the other driver! The survey, based on more than 2200 workers…
Anger In Home Affects Children
In a recent letter to “Dear Abby,” a distraught woman wrote that her Asian husband recently lost a great deal of money in the stock market resulting in “…the negativity in our house is so bad that even our kids don’t want to be in the same room as their father. I have considered divorce,…
A Case Of Turkey Rage
News item: “27-year-old Vermont resident Steven J. Lapre is claiming that he is being made an example of after being accused of running over and killing a wild turkey as he was driving to his anger management class. He asked at his arraignment, “How many citations do they hand out for all the dead deer…