Anger Management For Dummies, UK Edition

ISBN-13: 9780470682166 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 360 str.

W. Doyle Gentry

Opis

A recent YouGov survey has revealed that one in four people worries about how angry they sometimes feel, or has a close friend or family member who has trouble controlling their anger. This volume examines the topic of anger management.

Spis treści

Introduction.

Part I: The Basics of Anger.

Chapter 1: Anger: A Natural Human Emotion.

Chapter 2: When Is Anger a Problem? Assessing and Understanding Your Anger.

Chapter 3: Is Anger Damaging Your Life?

Part II: Dealing with Past and Present Anger.

Chapter 4: Taking Immediate Action.

Chapter 5: Avoiding Speaking Out in Anger.

Chapter 6: Keeping Your Cool.

Chapter 7: Letting Go of Past Anger.

Chapter 8: Moving Forward: The Power of Forgiveness.

Part III: Preventing Future Anger.

Chapter 9: Adopting a New Outlook.

Chapter 10: Saying What You Mean.

Chapter 11: Owning Up to Your Anger.

Chapter 12: Balancing the Effects of Your Temperament.

Chapter 13: Using Anger Constructively.

Part IV: Lifestyle Changes That Improve Your Anger and Health.

Chapter 14: Managing Daily Stresses.

Chapter 15: Managing Your Body Chemistry.

Chapter 16: Getting a Good Night’s Sleep.

Chapter 17: Looking After Your Spiritual Health.

Chapter 18: Staying in a Good Mood.

Part V: Managing Anger in Relationships.

Chapter 19: At Work.

Chapter 20: At Home and In Intimate Relationships.

Part VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Raise a Child to Have Healthy Anger Control.

Chapter 22: Ten Anger–Freeing Thoughts.

Chapter 23: Ten Anger–Freeing Actions.

Index.

O autorze

Gill Bloxham, CPsychol is a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Gill teaches on university courses, to charity organisations such as MIND and to non–health agencies including the police and local government.W. Doyle Gentry, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and Director of the Institute for Anger–Free Living.

Blurb

Learn to:

• Stay calm under pressure
• Adopt a new outlook on difficult situations
• Manage your daily stresses and strains
• Balance the effects of your temper

Wave goodbye to stress and anger

Do you have difficulty keeping a lid on your emotions? Do you often fly off the handle? Or do you know someone else who does? This book offers essential techniques on keeping your anger under control and developing new skills to deal with stressful situations. Through helpful and straightforward explanations, this guide will help you to ease your anger and work on areas where you′d like to keep your cool. From managing stressful situations at home or in the office to tackling road rage, use this easy–to–follow advice to stay on top of your anger and keep your head in testing situations.

• Work at it – combat workplace stress and stay calm in a professional environment
• Don′t look back in anger – deal with the past, and learn to let go and move forward
• Drift away – discover how to dissolve stress and ensure a good night′s sleep
• Should I have said that? – learn to manage your temper and not speak out in anger
• No combat zone – say goodbye to physical aggression and control your body, as well as your mind
• Getting personal – find new ways to deal with problems at home and in relationships

Open the book and find:

• How to deal with pressurised situations
• Daily stress management techniques
• Advice on how to develop a new outlook
• Ways to stay in a good mood
• Key points on keeping your cool
• The skill of preventing anger in the future
• Why it′s important to manage your body chemistry