Anger Management
- Is your child or adolescent’s anger out of control?
- Does their anger appear out of nowhere when you ask them to do something?
- Do you find yourself avoiding the triggers to their angry outbursts? Is your teen getting away with increasingly unacceptable behaviour because you are afraid of incurring his or her anger?
If you have seen an angry child or teenager in action, you will know how hard it is to deal with.
Today’s teens face greater pressures than those of the past. With their access to technology by age 18, most adolescents have witnessed thousands of violent acts on TV, in games, and the internet. This exposure has had the effect of normalising violence. When you add the hormonal changes of adolescence into the mix – the combination can be explosive. As it is, adolescence is a time when a young person may feel that his or her body and mind are occasionally out of control.
Anger is an intense negative emotion experienced in response to frustration. Kids fail to understand the effects of their anger on those around them. And when young people control their anger by repressing it – they run the risk of suffering depression.
Anger management is teaching your child that anger is a normal, inevitable human emotion. Management is not about getting rid of it but learning to deal with those emotions safely and productively.