From the authors of the classic self-help guide, Anger Management for Everyone, comes a comprehensive and customizable resource to help you effectively treat client anger.

Anger is a universal emotion. However, when anger becomes dysregulated or morphs into aggression, intervention is called for. Using Howard Kassinove and Raymond Tafrate's innovative and modular SMART (Selection Menu for Anger Reduction Treatment) model for treating anger, this book offers customizable treatment strategies to help you create an individualized plan tailored to your specific client and their needs.

With this powerful and evidence-based guide, you'll learn how to help clients understand and manage unhealthy anger before it becomes a problem. You'll find motivational interviewing techniques, strategies for engaging clients in therapy, and tips for incorporating different treatment methods-such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)-into your sessions.

You'll also find up-to-date information on the effects of hunger, different foods, sleep, smells, and colors on anger, as well as guidelines for assessment, case examples, dialogs, client handouts, and information on relapse prevention.

No client is the same, which is why it's so important to customize your treatment plan using the best tools available. Using the effective SMART model outlined in this professional guide, you can help your clients successfully manage their anger, regulate emotions, and live better lives.

About the Author

Raymond Chip Tafrate, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and professor in the criminology and criminal justice department at Central Connecticut State University. He is a fellow and supervisor at the Albert Ellis Institute in New York City, NY, and a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. He frequently consults with criminal justice agencies and programs regarding difficult-to-change problems such as anger dysregulation and criminal behavior. He has coauthored numerous books, and has presented his research throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He is coauthor, with Howard Kassinove, of the popular self-help guide, Anger Management for Everyone.

Howard Kassinove, PhD, ABPP, is a board-certified clinical psychologist, former chairperson of the psychology department at Hofstra University, and past director of their PhD program in clinical and school psychology. Kassinove is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Albert Ellis Institute, and the Behaviour Therapy and Research Society. The editor of Anger Disorders, he has published more than sixty papers, and has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Book Information
ISBN 9781684032860
Author Howard Kassinove
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint New Harbinger Publications
Publisher New Harbinger Publications
Weight(grams) 760g
Dimensions(mm) 254mm * 176mm * 24mm