Your Angry Child: A Guide for Parents

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Discover an important source of practical and understandable advice for parents of children with anger management issues! Your Angry Child: A Guide for Parents was created to provide parents of angry children and teenagers with an up-to-date understanding of the “whys” and “hows” of anger problems. You’ll find specific, focused ways of helping angry children and... Read more

Discover an important source of practical and understandable advice for parents of children with anger management issues!

Your Angry Child: A Guide for Parents was created to provide parents of angry children and teenagers with an up-to-date understanding of the “whys” and “hows” of anger problems. You’ll find specific, focused ways of helping angry children and managing the difficulties that anger causes—some brand new, some time-tested. Written by a psychologist with over 30 years of experience treating troubled and severely behaviorally disordered youth and 20 years experience as a forensic psychologist, this book provides practical and understandable advice that parents can make use of immediately.

This insightful book presents up-to-date case histories, current research, and practical, down-to-earth techniques that can help parents of children and adolescents with anger problems. Extraordinarily useful for parents, this book is also an ideal adjunct to counseling and psychotherapy and an essential reference for teachers, pediatricians and family practice physicians, students of psychology, corrections officers, and others who work with angry/violent youth. The first chapters of Your Angry Child: A Guide for Parents provide a thoughtful introduction to child development concepts and the development of anger, examining how hostility and aggression impact the family and illustrating the effects of resistance and oppositional behavior. Next, the book focuses specifically on practical aspects of anger management, including:

attachment issues
antisocial behavior
anger’s impact on temperament, development, moral reasoning, and the thinking process in general
indicators of anger problems, such as temper tantrums, cruelty to animals, and fire setting
the effect of the media on violent tendencies in children
ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder, and other conduct disorders
mood disorders, including suicidal feelings and depression
links between anger and substance abuse
problem solving
the power of strong values and positive role models for angry youth
and much more!

With chapters specifically devoted to the anger problems of children and pre-teenagers as well as advice directed toward parents of angry adolescents, Your Angry Child: A Guide for Parents is an ideal resource for helping professionals and the parents who come to them in varying degrees of desperation. Make this vital book a part of your therapeutic arsenal today! Read less

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Impact of Anger
Aggression and Hostility in Today’s Society
The Effect of Aggression and Hostility on the Family
Resistance and Oppositional Behavior
Chapter 2. The Workings of Anger
Temperament and Anger
Thinking and Anger
The Development and Thought Processes
Moral Reasoning
Appraisal and Expectations: Developing Styles of Angry Thinking
Anger and Attachment
Anger and the Antisocial Child
Chapter 3. Influences on Anger
The Development of Anger
Media and the Development of Violence
Chapter 4. Responses to Anger
The Reaction of Anger
Resilience
Chapter 5. Anger and Emotional Problems
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Conduct Disorders
Mood Disorders
Suicide
Anger and Substance Abuse
Chapter 6. Anger in Children and Preteens
Hot Thoughts and Cool Thoughts
Feelings
Cooling Down
Anger Plans
What If All This Stuff Fails?
Chapter 7. Anger in Teenagers
Adolescents and Behavior Management
Contracts
Grounding
Independence
Choose Your Battles
Talking It Through the Family
It’s Not What Is That Matters . . . It’s What We Believe
Problem Solving
Chapter 8. Building on the Positive
Strength Building and Positive Role Models
Diversity and the Power of Others
Values
Bibliography
Index
Reference Notes Included

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Davis, Daniel L

Your Angry Child A Guide for Parents

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