Miriam M. Gottlieb, Ph.D.
"In a time when high-quality anger management and violence prevention programs are in hot demand, Miriam Gottlieb delivers with a superb and clearly written workbook that can greatly benefit therapists in the trenches and the clients they treat. Her book is filled with practical tools that can successfully empower clients to gain better control of their anger. There have been many books written about anger management, but by far The Angry Self tops them all!"-- Matthew D. Selekman, MSW
author of Pathways to Change: Brief Therapy Solutions with Difficult Adolescents
The Angry Self is a resource for any counselor dealing with a client who has an anger problem, or whose anger is getting in the way of resolving some other problem. It consists of nine chapters, each with a specific therapeutic goal. The chapters are divided into units. A typical unit contains a small amount of explanatory text, a story or two to illustrate the point being made, and an exercise for the client to do.
Although the units within a chapter build towards that chapter's goal, a great deal of flexibility has been built in to allow the counselor to modify, rearrange, add or delete material without damaging the integrity of the process. In this way, The Angry Self meets its dual objectives of providing a complete anger management program, while at the same time giving the counselor the freedom necessary to tailor therapy to the needs of the individual client.
The Angry Self can be used by the counselor alone, but in some cases it may be effective to give the Book to the client. The client can read a unit and do its exercise as "homework", and discuss it with the counselor during the next session. Still another approach is to read the material with the client during a session, doing the exercises together.
The major elements used in The Angry Self are:
- Explanatory text, used mainly to introduce new concepts.
- Stories, used to illustrate the concepts.
- Exercises, used to reinforce the concepts and to aid in skill development.
Contents- 1. Getting Started
2. Recognizing Anger
3. Effective Ways to Deal with Anger
4. Expressing Anger
5. The Effective Use of Anger
6. The Purpose of Anger
7. Values and Needs
8. Problem Solving
9. Conclusion
About the authors Miriam M. Gottlieb received her Ph.D. in Counseling from the University of Maryland in 1981. Since that time, she has provided counseling services to a large variety of populations in a number of settings, ranging from correctional institutions to private practice. She was the Chief Treatment Psychologist at a juvenile rehabilitation facility, Clinical Director for a group home agency, and consultant for several school districts. Dr. Gottlieb currently focuses her attention on her private practice and on teaching graduate students at the University of Phoenix.
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See also Each of the Chapters in The Angry Self has its own therapeutic goal. You can stop your therapy whenever you feel your client has made sufficient progress. For example, you could stop after Chapter 4, by which time the client will have the tools to handle anger, and decide not to go on to Chapters 5 through 8, which deal with problem solving. You can also skip entire chapters if your client doesn't need them, or if you have other ways of reaching that chapter's goal.
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