Healthy Anger: How to Help Children and Teens Manage Their Anger

By Bernard Golden

Book Overview

How should we respond to a child's temper tantrum? To a teenager's sullen resentment? How can we help children and teens experience their anger without being overwhelmed by it? How can we deal with their anger before it leads to depression, isolation, or even violence?

In Healthy Anger, Bernard Golden draws upon more than twenty years of experience as a psychologist and teacher to offer specific, practical strategies for helping children and teens manage their anger constructively. Golden has developed a set of skills that parents, teachers, and counselors can use to show children how to identify the causes of anger; how to respond to it in ways that lead to an internal sense of competence and self-control; how to use anger to understand their own emotional situation; and how to develop a greater capacity for empathy towards themselves and others. And he shows parents how to cope with outbursts--including clear, step-by-step instructions and problem-solving skills--how to derail escalating anger, reward good behaviors, and recognize when professional help is needed. For anyone who has ever helplessly confronted a child's rage or a teenager's defiant fury, Healthy Anger offers a wealth of wise insight, clear advice, and eminently practical strategies for turning anger into understanding.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195156579
• ISBN13: 9780195156577
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

The Perfect Book For Anger

Reading this book was very stimulating but yet very refreshing and informative. The book provided significant theoretical information, but more so presented it in a manner in which the parent sas well as the practioner could easily understand and apply it in working with children with anger. In addition, many of the concepts and techniques about handling anger can be applied, to a degree, both to children and adults across the board. Thus as a teacher and psychotherapist, I highly recommend this book be used as a guide and resource reference for parents, teachers and other mental health professionals. Respectfully,Matthew Williams, MSW, ACSWChicago, Illinois

Parents, this is the book to read!

I highly recommend this book for parents. Golden has a way of explaning without directing blame but solutions! Check it out and I am sure you will be as pleased as I am! Many thanks for this wonderful first book for parents