Teaching healthy anger management
1College of Nursing, University of Tennessee, USA. Sthomas@utk.edu
Topic:
Teaching anger management in the community.
Purpose:
To describe anger management and offer guidelines for assessing potential participants and teaching healthy behaviors.
Sources:
Drawing from the literature, more than 10 years of quantitative and qualitative studies by our research team, and 5 years of experience in conducting anger management groups, the author presents basic principles of teaching anger management. A model is described for a 4-week group for women.
Conclusions:
Anger management has wide applicability to a variety of constituencies for both primary and secondary prevention. Advanced practice psychiatric nurses are well-qualified to provide this psychoeducational intervention.
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