Anger Management
How to Help Our Children Manage Their Anger
Does your child encounter problems with anger and conflict? Do you your child sometimes exploding with anger or giving the ‘cold shoulder’ to others? This workshop teaches a parent how to help the child maintain his/her cool and learn healthy ways of working through anger and conflict.
Children who develop positive skills for anger management are trained to promote connection with others and increase their competence and self-esteem. In contrast, anger that is not constructively managed may lead them to underachievement, bullying, depression, excessive guilt and shame, conflicts and social withdrawal. When extreme, it may lead to substance abuse, sexual promiscuity or aggression and violence to others or oneself.
This workshop is for parents and others who want to help children develop skills in healthy anger management long before it becomes chronic or severe. It is primarily intended to help children learn to recognize, understand, and effectively manage their anger in everyday life.
Parents will be helped to:
1. Learn about a model of anger that can be used to help children recognize, understand and manage their anger.
2. Develop increased awareness of child anger
3. Identify strategies appropriate for the specific needs of different children
4. Become more aware of the role of modelling in how children learn anger management
5. Learn a variety of communication skills that can foster parent-child relationship
6. Develop skills in self-reflection that we can teach our children
7. Learn how to respond to escalating anger
8. Identify the unique developmental challenges of children and teens that influence how they respond to anger
