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This book will give you a unique, practical collection of insights, techniques, activities and reproducible student worksheets to help persistently angry adolescents.  Using this resource, you will be able to quickly find strategies that best fit students with different kinds of anger problems.  These are categorized as five levels of anger intensity and strategies offered for each. In addition, 20 possible reasons are offered for anger in adolescents, and tips are given to share with parents.

Pages:  114

When you are angry, your blood draws inward, causing your hands to turn cold and the card to turn black.  Give these cards to students to use throughout their day.  Have them place their thumb behind the card and watch for the color change to reveal how calm they can make themselves.  Four useful steps to anger control are provided on the back of each card.

Cards:  1

This innovative curriculum was developed for dealing with anger problems in students in grades 5-8.  It allows teachers the structure and flexibility to teach students new and creative ways to deal with their anger.  The units are filled with activities and games that will allow students to explore how they currently react to anger situations and to choose new and healthier ways to react.  The topics are divided into three sections;  Anger Educational Model, Anger Skills, and Interpersonal Skills.  This curriculum can be used in a step-by-step fashion beginning with unit one and ending with unit seven, or it can be used as completely independent studies on each unit topic.

Pages:  255

This book helps children to develop the skills of anger management, and to behave in a responsible manner for both themselves and others. We know that everybody gets angry, and its good for children to learn to realize and understand their feelings of anger, convey them, and build skills to deal with anger in a correct manner. They will learn that it is normal to get angry, but also understand that it's not good to harm anyone physically or verbally. Supportive and compassionate, the book helps preschool and primary children realize that when they cool down and work through anger, they can feel peaceful again.

Pages:  40

This comic book and activity guidance series for kids was developed with attention grabbing stories that teach young people how to effectively manage anger, deal with bullying and teach other coping skills.  The colorful science fiction comic book format help kids learn lessons that they can share with their friends.  In this issue, Max and his friends are confronted by a gigantic robot called X-35 who has lost control of his anger and is damaging everything in his path.  Max takes control of the situation and teaches the robot anger management to calm him down.  Readers will learn the anger management techniques through activities and discussion.

Pages:  32

This informative, spiral-bound book contains activities, book lists and thoughts from Fred Rogers about helping young children learn to manage anger. The Mad Feelings Activity Book is designed to complement the What Do You Do with the Mad that You Feel? training workshop, but even those who have not participated in a workshop will find it to be a helpful classroom or child care resource.  It includes: Fred Rogers'timeless wisdom about children, anger, and self-control; A focus on the important role of the adult; Descriptions of the four stages of developing self-control; Eight easy-to-do developmentally-appropriate activities for each stage, that cover a variety of domains; Ideas for how to determine which activities to offer; An extended booklist about anger for children at various ages and situations; A resource list of books about anger for adults.

Pages:  60

Anger is very often an emotion that is expressed in extremes, either by avoiding any show of anger or exploding in a rage and /or violence.  Both approaches usually have a detrimental effect on physical and emotional health.  This video explores how and why we experience anger, and then offers practical strategies for expressing anger in constructive, productive ways rather than unproductive and destructive ways.  This DVD features Dr. Charles D. Spielberger, Director of South Florida and Dr. Doyle Gentry, Clinical Psychologist specializing in the treatment of anger disorders.

Runtime:  30 mins