Anger Management NBCC Approved.
Course Description
Target Audience: Social workers, counselor, and other mental health professionals.
Course Content Level: Advanced
Number of CE Hours: 8
Type of CE hours: Clinical
Delivery format: Reading based asynchronous distance learning.
Course completion requirements:
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5. Return the scantron card, examination sheet and student evaluation of the course.
You’ll need 70% correct score on the post-test for successful completion of the course.
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ACE Provider Approval Statement: Homestead Schools, Inc., 1070, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Assoiciation of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses for continuing education credit.
ACE provider approval period: 4/2/2023-4/2/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 8 Clinical continuing education credits.
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Course last updated: June, 2019
Course Outline
hapter 1: Anger
Chapter 2: The Anger Episode Model
Chapter 3: Assessment and Diagnosis
Chapter 4: Overview of the Anger Management Program
Chapter 5: Assessing and Increasing Motivation
Chapter 6: Developing a Strong Therapeutic Alliance
Chapter 7: Increasing Awareness of Anger
Chapter 8: Avoidance and Escape
Chapter 9: Managing Physical Arousal
Chapter 10: Building Life Skills
Chapter 11: Social Problem Solving
Chapter 12: Exposure
Chapter 13: Fostering Cognitive Change: Seeing the World Realistically
Chapter 14: Fostering Cognitive Change II: Building a More Flexible Philosophy
Chapter 15: Forgiveness
Chapter 16: Relapse Prevention
Chapter 17: Anger Reduction for Practitioners
Chapter 18: Sample Anger Management Treatment Programs
Learning Objectives
After completion of the course you’ll be able to:
- Describe Yerkes-Dodson Law and relate angry arousal with performance.
- Define anger in terms of intensity, duration, frequency and body changes.
- Demonstrate expressions of the anger script.
- Differentiate between anger, hostility, aggression and aversive verbalizations.
- Identify 5 parts of anger episode model and describe how each can be used in an anger management program.
- List 9 negative outcomes associated with anger reactions.
- List 5 elements of assessment of anger.
- List 5 categories of anger diagnosis and discuss their defining characteristics.
- Identify 4 elements of anger management program and discuss their application in practice.
- Teach clients 4 crisis prevention strategies.
- Identify active ingredients for successful anger management in the counseling process.
- Describe 8 techniques for increasing client awareness of the various elements of anger episodes.
- Differentiate between avoidance and escape strategies of anger management.
- Discuss the application of fight-or-flight response to anger management.
- Teach a client progressive muscle relaxation technique.
- Identify 3 life skills that can help reduce many anger problems.
- Discuss specific life situations and social skills necessary to handle them effectively.
- Define assertiveness.
- Identify and discuss four steps of the problem-solving model.
- Explain how exposure technique can be used to reduce angry reactions to aversive verbal stimuli.
- Discuss the application of principles and practices of cognitive intervention in the context of anger management.
- Recognize the difference between thoughts and feelings.
- Distinguish between Beck’s approach and Rational Emotive Behavior Change approach to cognitive therapy.
- Teach clients about the causes of their anger.
- Teach clients rational interpretations of triggers.
- Teach clients to differentiate between rational and irrational beliefs.
- Define forgiveness and explain why forgiveness is important.
- Distinguish between forgiveness and other possible responses to an offence, such as accepting, excusing, forgetting, etc.
- Identify and describe four phases of forgiveness.
- Outline 6 coping skills in anger management.
- List reasons why client anger reemerges after treatment begins to become effective.
- Outline strategies for managing client setbacks.
- Identify client characteristics that are likely to be a source of irritation and anger for practitioners.
- Using the techniques described for individual counseling, design a program suitable for group treatment.
To assess the effectiveness of the course material, we ask that you evaluate your achievement of each learning objective on a scale of A to D (A=excellent, B=good, C=fair, D=unsatisfactory). Please indicate your responses next to each learning objective and return it to us with your completed exam.
Customer Comments
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