What will an
Anger Management Group
do for you?
BENEFITS
It will help you:
- Measure your toxic anger levels
- Understand your anger and the function it
plays for you
- Consider the costs of your anger for your
health and well-being and relationships
- Learn what the experts say about anger
- Gain self awareness about your personality
and temperament
- Learn about the interaction of your
personality type with that of others
- Learn to accept differences in the way you
and others approach life
- Get in charge of your anger
- Help you manage anger in your relationships
- Understand the role of "trigger
thoughts" and how to replace these with "coping
thoughts"
- Learn stress reduction/relaxation techniques
- Develop new communication skills based on active
listening and empathy
- Assert your needs without resorting to
aggression or passivity for greater effectiveness and satisfaction at
home, work and in the community
- Plan and strategize for provocative
situations
- Help your children manage their anger
- "Let go" of old hurts and consider
how forgiveness could be an option
- Gain compassion for yourself
THE PROCESS
The group will be run by a highly
experienced clinician in counseling around relationship problems, emotional
distress, communication skills, rage and anger--Karita M. Hummer, Licensed
Clinical Social Worker and Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social
Work.
It will run with a combination of: group
process discussion, education and, between sessions, homework.
Sessions are scheduled to start May 1, 2008 and will be on Tuesday evenings for 1-1/2 hours from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Location: 475 North First Street, rear, second floor, San Jose, CA 95112. (Near Civic Center)
COST
Cost is $250, including intake fee.
If you take both the Anger Management
and the Divorce groups, the cost is $375.
BASED ON
Based on the work of Matthew McKay,
Ph.D. and Peter Rogers, Ph.D., Frank Lachman, Ph.D. and Doyle Gentry, Ph.D.
BOOKS
Purchase of two books is required:
- ANGER CONTROL WORKBOOK, Matthew McKay,
Ph.D. and Peter Rogers, Ph.D., $12.21
- ANGER FREE, Doyle Gentry, Ph.D., $12
TO REGISTER OR INQUIRE
To register or inquire, please:
Please leave your name, phone number and
the name of the group (Anger or Divorce or both). We will then
contact you for the next steps. Thank you.
For a selection of books on Anger Management, visit my bookshelf on the subject at Powell's Books 
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=32807&html=ppbs/32807.html
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