Anger Management:
Anger Management for Kids
Half-day workshops
available at the following
dates and locations:
Monday, March 21, 2005
University, Mississippi
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Jackson, Mississippi
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Biloxi, Mississippi
Program Focus
Managing the Oppositional and Defiant Child
will focus on the effective identification and
management of a child or adolescent presenting
the symptoms and features of Oppositional Child
Program Description
There is nothing new about the need for anger
management with this youngster. What is new is
information affecting the way we look at the issue
and how we manage it.
We know, for instance, that aggressive behavior
is primarily learned behavior and that,
regardless of how it looks from the outside, the
aggressive child feels like a victim. This affects
how the child thinks, or, in some instances, how he
or she doesn't think. The highly impulsive youngster
and the highly creative youngster are the
same in one sense; they operate more out of
"images" than traditional language. The problem
is that the images of the impulsive and aggressive
youngster are not pretty ones; their behaviors follow
the images.
The slowing down of impulsive thought and the
damage it can create involves increased facility
with language, the capacity to "manipulate"
images, and the ability of the child, with assistance,
to accurately evaluate progress.
explode" youngster to damage the learning
environment for everyone?
Needs Addressed by this Program
- Why is it that some youngsters can recite the
behavior rules and consequences chapter and
verse. . .yet still violate those rules over and
over again?
- Why is it that it takes only one "cocked to
explode" youngster to damage the learning
environment for everyone?
- Why is it that our best strategies for managing
the volatile, impulsive and aggressive
youngster often don’t work. . .or seem only to
make things worse?
These are not easy questions to answer. It’s
tough enough for anyone, but it is especially difficult
for a child to control behavior that is slipping
out of control.
Intended Audience
Anger Management for Kids is designed to
assist educators, administrators, counselors, social
workers, practitioners, clinicians and allied health
service professionals in working more effectively
with the emotionally fragile youngster who is easily
given to episodes of impulsivity and overly aggressive
behavior.
AGENDA |
| 7:45 - 8:30 a.m. |
Registration |
| 8:30 - 10:00 a.m. |
Part I
Introduction
Emotional Bandwidth
Anger at the Speed of Light
Image Streaming
Building Language Lanes
Needs, Feelings, Freedoms |
| 10:00 - 10:15 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:15 - 11:30 a.m. |
Part II
Anger Management
Understanding the Process
Current Medical Interventions
Teaching the Skills
Image "Therapy"
Closing |
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