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Working with Anger: A Constructivist Approach
Client anger is a perennial problem for a range of professionals working in clinical settings.
Working with Anger presents an alternative strategy to the most common approach, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), exploring instead how anger can be tackled from a personal constructivist perspective. It provides a conceptual framework and practical advice on the clinical issues of working with anger, including case study examples, service user perspective, a philosophical and developmental underpinning, and suggested ways of preventing anger development. Ways of working with anger are illustrated,
* Group-based treatments
* Individual treatment
* Working with adults
* Working with children and adolescents
* Working with families
* Gender and anger
* Methods of evaluating anger programmes
This practical volume will enable clinicians to set up, run and evaluate their own anger programmes using the constructivist approach. It will therefore be a valuable resource for professionals such as clinical and forensic psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, nurses and social workers.
Working with Anger presents an alternative strategy to the most common approach, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), exploring instead how anger can be tackled from a personal constructivist perspective. It provides a conceptual framework and practical advice on the clinical issues of working with anger, including case study examples, service user perspective, a philosophical and developmental underpinning, and suggested ways of preventing anger development. Ways of working with anger are illustrated,
* Group-based treatments
* Individual treatment
* Working with adults
* Working with children and adolescents
* Working with families
* Gender and anger
* Methods of evaluating anger programmes
This practical volume will enable clinicians to set up, run and evaluate their own anger programmes using the constructivist approach. It will therefore be a valuable resource for professionals such as clinical and forensic psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, nurses and social workers.
236 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2006
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February 8, 2014
Ok, so I'm biased: I wrote one of the chapters. If you ever read it, I'm "Mr Angry"!
This is a thought-provoking collection of essays on the subject of anger and how to manage it. It is pitched more towards the academic/professional psychotherapist perspective but is readable from a layman's point of view as well. And I say that as a layman.
My chapter was written as a patient coming to terms with my own anger issues - it was quite daring of Peter Cummins to include a chapter by a patient, I think, and it makes for an interesting change of tone.
If you are interested in the subject area - this is one well worth checking out.
This is a thought-provoking collection of essays on the subject of anger and how to manage it. It is pitched more towards the academic/professional psychotherapist perspective but is readable from a layman's point of view as well. And I say that as a layman.
My chapter was written as a patient coming to terms with my own anger issues - it was quite daring of Peter Cummins to include a chapter by a patient, I think, and it makes for an interesting change of tone.
If you are interested in the subject area - this is one well worth checking out.
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