Anger Management
The “Anger Management” groups provide youth with a vehichle to express complicated feelings and events. Groups are offered for various ages (6-18), genders and life styles. These groups incorporate themes and social media in creating an inner and outer voice.
Themes:
“Behind Closed Doors” addresses issues that are not seen yet experienced and remain silent or secret. This is a non-intrusive method of addressing issues that can not be discussed with anyone, yet allows for an outlet and a place to heal and find a means towards coping while building empathy.
The following is addressed:
- Dealing with feelings
- Identifying: feelings and meaning of emotions
- Discussion: what happens behind closed doors that affect these feelings and emotions
- Discussion: the pain and emotional turmoil of keeping secrets and feeling hopeless
- Movie: “Freedom Writer” which depict anger, gangs, inner turmoil, emotional unbalance
- Writing: first fiction group story of what happens behind closed doors
- Focus: on how anger feels and identify triggers to anger
- Establish: resolutions to these feelings and develop forms of coping
- Writing: second group story on coping with what happens behind closed doors
- Work on Empathy
- Defining empathy
- Identifying empathetic listening and role playing listening skills
- Identifying apathy and those who are affected; “What if you were in my place.”
- Write third group story regarding the effects of apathy on others who are behind closed doors
- Movie, “Hard Ball”
- Discuss dynamic of the movie
- Two group debate on empathy vs. apathy
- Write fourth group story regarding the feelings associated with being empathetic and using the power of empathy behind closed doors
- Create social media blogs and You Tube video