Summary
This user-friendly manual shows how to teach effective anger management skills to middle school students. The step-by-step approach is designed for use with the entire class. And it can be readily adapted for small group settings. The program is especially beneficial for students with emotional and behavioral disorders. The author provides teaching guidelines, lists of required materials, leaders’ scripts, and connecting activities to help reinforce and strengthen learning. The training sessions and activities can be adapted to meet students’ needs, abilities, and interests.
Reviews
"In Control is a complete skill-building program . . . . The 10 sessions follow a succinct, interactive methodology that tempts even the most guarded youngster into participation . . . . Each lesson can be modified by the user to reach a variety of populations in a multitude of settings (i.e., classroom, behavioral health facility, therapy session, detention facility, etc.)."
— Ann E. Hackerman, Counseling Today
"Kellner's In Control program is thorough and easy to implement. . . . Readers are equipped with the session outlines as well as a basic connecting activity, review sheet, checklist, and 'anger log' for each session."
— Youth Today
"The book, written with an extremely supportive tone is genuine in its desire to help and offers the children various activities that make learning about anger management fun."
— New Jersey Association of Mental Health Agencies News
Table of Contents
Introduction
Sessions: Anger is a Normal Human Feeling
Anger Log/ Psychology of Anger
Anger Triggers and Settings
Degrees of Anger/ Other Anger Management Tools
Anger Management Criteria/ Self Evaluation
Thinking and Behavioral Tools
Final Anger Log/ Individual Anger Management Plans
In Control Studios
Sharpening Anger Management Evaluation
Review and Graduation
Appendix A
In Control: Ten Points in Anger Management
Anger Triggers and Settings
Procedures for Role Playing
Appendix B: Booster Sessions
Anger Management Skill Checkup
Anger, Alcohol, and Drugs
Appendix C: Program Evaluation
Appendix D: Organizing a Schoolwide Non-violence Week