Anger management for children and teens

Are you struggling with anger management?

Anger can cause many different symptoms. It might affect how your child feels physically or mentally, or how they behave. Some children or teens become aggressive towards others when they’re angry. Other people hide their anger and may take it out on themselves.

What is Anger?

Anger is a natural emotion. It is nature’s way of telling us that something in our lives has gone wrong. Anger occurs as a defensive response to a perceived attack or threat to our well-being. In addition to psychological changes, like any emotion, anger is accompanied by physiological changes.

For children, anger issues often accompany other mental health conditions, including ADHD, autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Tourette’s syndrome.

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When to seek treatment for Anger management

You should consider treatment for your anger, rage, and uncontrollable outbursts when:

Your anger or repercussions of angry episodes are impacting negatively on your relationships or work – or even get you into trouble with the police
You feel like you can’t control your anger
You feel like you’re feeling or being aggressive, intense and angry most of the time

Your anger or repercussions of angry episodes are impacting negatively on your relationships or work – or even get you into trouble with the police
You feel like you can’t control your anger
You feel like you’re feeling or being aggressive, intense and angry most of the time
"I have learnt a lot about myself that I did not know before. I have learned to control my anger and I am a very happy person compared to when I first started."
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What you need to know

In CBT, the therapist and client work together to identify and change negative thinking and behaviour patterns that may contribute to emotional distress. The focus of CBT therapy is to alter and change these thoughts or self-talk which express one’s beliefs and perceptions. Cognitive approaches focus on replacing one thought, belief, or form of self-talk with another. CBT Therapy also focuses on teaching the client more balanced ways of thinking about and coping with life events and relationships.
Be aware of and slow down your negative automatic thoughts
Rewrite the script in your head by identifying thoughts that cause emotional reactions and replacing them with thoughts that do not
Assess and achieve goals – and deal with setbacks – without getting angry
Remove yourself from potentially explosive situations
Brainstorm solutions to problems and evaluate success and learnings
Build on social skills to ensure behaviour and response are always appropriate
Be assertive and not aggressive
Negotiate and resolve conflict
Children happen to take the worst of a parent’s anger issues, children that grow up in an angry household tend to be fearful especially towards the dominant parent, they mimic theirs parents’ behaviors by showing aggression and naughty behaviour around their parents and siblings.
Children display emotional issues and live under a cloud of judgment that leads to depression, low self-esteem, and dishonesty.

Teenagers have a tendency to rebel or fight back while living in a concoction of mixed emotions topped off with low self esteem and self-pity
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