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What is the Goal of Anger Management? Learn information on what the goals of anger management are.
What is the Goal of Anger Management?
Anger Management aims to lessen the emotional feelings triggered by anger, along with the accompanying physiological arousal. This means you will be able to cope with your reactions to situations, things, or people that make you mad (even if you may not be able to eliminate such elements from your life.) It is interesting to note that [according to the Safe, Disciplined, and Drug-Free Schools (SDDFS) Project of the Florida Institute of Education (FIE) at the University of Florida] researchers have actually been able to pinpoint early signs of violent behavior. These are: lack of skills in assertiveness, anger management, social problem solving, impulse control, and empathy. The dearth of such skills in individuals point towards a tendency towards antisocial behavior during the adolescent and adult years. Any competent anger management program should aim to help angry people become aware of ways to lessen the emotional and physiological arousal caused by anger while preventing factors that "trigger" anger and violence from being experienced. Anger can never be eliminated, of course, but its impact on individuals and their environment can. Research has shown that children, adolescents, and adults too may absorb anger management techniques quite well, thus cutting down on expressions of aggression. They cannot get cured but will learn how to control themselves. The key to success in anger management is if the individual makes a decision to change - without their choosing to change, the program will not work. In the case of teenage shooters, would anger management work? Only if they really wanted to change and not because they were being forced to. It has been observed that, in prison, the teenage shooters still displayed problems with handling their anger (though remarkably some showed signs of remorse over their crimes.) With anger management, anger acts as a signal that a problem or issue exists which should be resolved. Through anger management, people will be educated on the process of slowing down the stimulation caused by anger, which then allows them to consider and act on such stimulation in the right way. Thus, no negative consequences result. Anger management is known for its aim to supplant aggressive action (violence) with assertive action. Participants in an anger management program are often quite confused regarding the meaning of effective assertiveness. Lots of them have already become habitually angry people. They cannot comprehend that problems may have a win-win resolution, which is the sign that one is being assertive in the right way. A participant in an anger management program learns to talk things through with the other party in the conflict, relying on "I" messages to communicate their side without being unpleasant.
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