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Anger Management: 5 Easy Ways to Calm Yourself
By Dr. Joe James · 13 years ago
You may benefit from learning about anger management if you've ever overreacted to a situation that upset you and ended up lashing out at others in ways that you later regretted. We all feel angry ...
Anger Management: Are You an Anger-aholic?
By Dr. Joe James · 13 years ago
To overcome anger management problems it’s critical to view anger as an addiction that you are trying to change. The reactions I get to this statement are almost always a blank or puzzled stare.
What ...
Anger Management – Some Clues That You May Need it
By Dr. Joe James · 13 years ago
Anger management - there are millions of reasons to study it. Unfortunately, most people who do have an anger problem deny or minimize it; this is not unheard of. The things we usually do look ...
Anger Management Techniques for Kids: Rethinking an Old One
By Dr. Joe James · 13 years ago
One of the best, but most misused anger management techniques for children is "time-out."
Time-out is used by most parents as punishment for their children acting out. Instead of punishment, time-out can also be an ...
Anger Management and Your World View
By Dr. Joe James · 13 years ago
Problems with anger management can often be traced to individuals seeing the same situation in different lights. If you are from Detroit, you are probably going to see things differently than someone from Eastaboga, AL. ...
Couples Therapist – What’s the Real Goal of Couples Therapy?
By Dr. Joe James · 13 years ago
If you polled most couple’s therapists chances are that they would say the number one complaint that people have when they seek a couple’s therapist is communication. I would estimate that over 90% of couples ...
A Good Anger Management Class Should Teach You How to Use the F-Bomb?!
By Dr. Joe James · 13 years ago
The F-bomb is an important part of an anger management class? Isn't that what got you in trouble in the first place?
Using the F-bomb that you are thinking of comes easy to most of ...
Anger Management: How It Can Save Your Life
By Dr. Joe James · 13 years ago
A study dating from 2003 by Suarez, et al. looked at the levels of a protein called Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF). Functionally, TNF is just as delightful a protein as the name implies. It is ...
6 Anger Management Techniques to Manage Your Boss
By Dr. Joe James · 13 years ago
One of the most important people to use anger management techniques with is that person in your life that you struggle getting along with; the one that you warmly refer to as your boss.
You're ...
Anger Management Techniques: Treat Depression to Treat Anger?
By Dr. Joe James · 13 years ago
How is this for a head turner - the best anger management technique for some people may be to treat them for depression.
Depression, goes the old saying, is anger turned inward. In my experience, ...
Anger Management Class: Three Easy Ways to Offer Criticism
By Dr. Joe James · 13 years ago
According to the dictionary the definition of criticism is to openly find fault with. Going by that meaning its no wonder that criticism is often causes anger. Given that most of us haven’t received any ...
Anger Management: The Difference between Anger and Aggression
By Dr. Joe James · 13 years ago
Most anger management courses should probably more accurately called aggression management classes. This is because anger and aggression are not the same thing. Anger may lead to aggression, but it is something entirely different.
If ...
Couples Therapy: Why Couples Can't Resolve Fights
By Dr. Joe James · 13 years ago
If you polled most couples therapists chances are that they would say the number one complaint that people have when they seek couples therapy is communication. I would estimate that over 90% of people who ...
Anger Management Class: Three Ways Automatic Thinking Fuels Anger
By Dr. Joe James · 13 years ago
One thing an anger management class should help you to understand is that we all use mental shortcuts that oftentimes are very helpful, but sometimes end up fooling us into misunderstanding a situation and getting ...
Court Ordered Anger Management: Is It Always the Right Answer
By Dr. Joe James · 13 years ago
Every year thousands of people are required to take a court ordered anger management class. This is oftentimes mandated as an alternative to jail time for people who have been involved in some altercation, verbal ...
Online Anger Management - 5 Ways to Avoid Getting Cheated When Ordering Online
By Dr. Joe James · 13 years ago
Quite naturally, one of the biggest concerns about taking an online anger management class is whether or not its legitimate. Far too many of us have spent money on something online that we thought was ...