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