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This 4-hour course is designed to help addiction counselors and health care professionals assist clients in recovery learn to manage anger and related destructive negative emotions. Goals/Objectives At the completion of this course participants will be able to: 1. Learn core anger management skills to assist them teach clients in recovery how to more effectively manage strong negative emotions; 2. Be able to articulate how thinking impacts emotions; 3. Be able to better identify self defeating self-talk that is fundamental to anger management; 4. Be able to identify common assumptions and beliefs which foster unnecessary negative emotions; 5. Be able to identify and teach basic anger management skills to recovering clients and their families. 6. Be able to list additional helpful resources for future anger management training.
Tony Fiore, Ph.D., is a California licensed psychologist, marriage therapist, and personal coach with clinical practices in Long Beach and Orange, California, specializing in anger management and marital therapy. Through his company, The Anger Coach, Dr. Fiore provides weekly and Fast-Track Anger Management Classes to local people in Southern California, and often also speaks to groups, organizations and treatment program staffs on stress and anger management. He is co-author (with Ari Novick, Ph.D.) of two books: Anger Management for the Twenty-First Century and A Companion Guide for Anger Management Professionals, and a leading professional certification program for substance abuse professionals and others titled Professional Anger Management Certification Training. In addition, he has authored two ebooks " Anger Management Student Manual: Practical Life skills for all ages." and "Anger Bee Companion Guide for adults working with children to manage anger." He is also author of an online anger management program which is popular on the internet, he has written scores of articles and special reports on anger management which have been published in numerous mainstream as well as online resources. Tony maintains his own blog titled " The Anger Coach Blog" which highlights important anger management issues in our society as well as solutions based on the eight-tools intervention model developed by himself and Dr. Novick. After graduating from Purdue University in 1972, he has been active in both community mental health, the private practice of psychology, substance abuse program consulting, and teaching, coaching and writing for over 35 years. He has completed numerous post-graduate training programs including Human Sexuality at UCLA, Personal Coaching at the Life Coaching Institute. To add to his experience and training in conflict resolution, he has also received advanced training in Marital Therapy at the Gottman Institute in Seattle, Washington and he is a certified group leader in the Keeping Love Alive Program by Michele Weiner-Davis. Website address: http://www.angercoach.com |