Prerequisite: Masters degree in a mental health field or current graduate student in a mental health discipline
Anger Management Specialist Home Study Program
This Home Study Course Includes:
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: The Basics of Helping People to Get Better -- Home Study Program
“Treating Anger & Violent Behavior -- A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach" -- Webinar recording on Computer
How to Tolerate People
How to Rid Yourself of Anger
(The audio presentation portion is provided on a USB thumb drive.)
Dr. Aldo Pucci's Book, "Feel the Way You Want to Feel ... No Matter What!"
Certification Examination
What You Will Learn
This course teaches trainees:
-- the difference between anger management and correcting
irrational anger
-- how to effectively assess the client's anger problem
-- how to distinguish between learned vs. not-learned anger
-- physical factors that encourage an angry mood and natural
methods to correct those factors
-- helping clients develop reasons to refuse to anger
themselves / engage in violent behavior
-- a cognitive model of anger
-- how to share that cognitive model with you clients
-- how to build desirability for the cognitive model when
clients insist that "people, things, and situations"
make them angry
-- how to discover what a person actually is angry
about
-- a cognitive explanation for why anger outbursts seem to
"just happen"
-- how to share the cognitive explanation of outbursts with your
clients
-- how to recognize and correct the most common shoulds and
musts that produce anger
-- how the confusion of need and want creates intense anger
-- catastrophizing and the Yerkes-Dodson Law
-- how to dispute your clients' most anger-producing thoughts
-- how to help clients develop new rational replacement
thoughts
-- how to help your clients practice their new calm reactions
-- how to use excellent behavioral techniques to help clients to slow
down their thoughts and behaviors to
react in a more rational manner
-- how to help clients overcome anger-related problems, such
as domestic violence,intermittent
explosive disorder, and
road rage.
-- excellent natural approaches to treating anxiety symptoms
and for relief of anxiety
A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE BACKGROUND AND PHILOSOPHY OF CBT
The theoretical and philosophical basis of CBT and how to be guided by it Learning CBT theory and how to apply it to many different therapeutic situations Learn the myths and misconceptions of CBT to better address concerns with your clients and colleagues
THE SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO CBT: HOW TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE IN THE THERAPY PROCESS AT ANY GIVEN POINT
Not all approaches to CBT are systematic
Systematic approach to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Know where you are in the therapeutic process at any given point
GOAL SETTING THE COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL WAY
Developing goals for therapy, life goals and daily living goals
How to motivate the client to develop goals and to achieve them
THE ABC'S OF EMOTIONS: HOW TO TEACH CLIENTS WHAT CAUSES THEIR FEELINGS AND BEHAVIOR
Understanding of the Emotional ABC's is essential to emotional and behavioral improvement
Learn how to present the ABC's of emotions to their clients in a manner that is understandable
Uncover "automatic thoughts" that make it appear as though people, situations and things cause feelings and behaviors
Practice the ABC's during the seminar
THE RATIONAL QUESTIONS: HOW TO HELP CLIENTS DETERMINE FOR THEMSELVES WHETHER OR NOT THEIR THOUGHTS ARE RATIONAL
Learn how to teach clients the three rational questions to help clients determine whether or not their thinking and behavior is rational and healthy
Practice the rational questions during the seminar
COMMON MENTAL MISTAKES: HOW PEOPLE GO WRONG IN THEIR THINKING, AND HOW TO HELP THEM CORRECT THOSE MISTAKES
Learn how to recognize errors in clients' thinking
Learn how to teach clients to recognize for themselves errors in their own thinking
Help clients correct those mistakes and develop new, rational replacement thoughts
HELPING PEOPLE PRACTICE THEIR NEW THOUGHTS, FEELINGS AND BEHAVIORS
Learn excellent techniques that help clients practice their new, rational thoughts and behaviors
HOW TO END THERAPY, ENCOURAGE AND FOSTER LONG-TERM RESULTS
Learn, from a CBT perspective, how to recognize when a client is ready for therapy termination
Learn how to foster long-term results
THE ISSUE OF HOMEWORK
Discover homework assignments that can provide clients with an ongoing therapeutic focus
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