Anger Management

Transcript Hi, I’m Dr Ryan Fuller. I have a private practice in New York City and because I specialize in anger management, I’ve also done a lot of work with couples because what we know is that in close, intimate relationships, anger is something that frequently comes up. One of the questions I get a …

Transcript I’m Dr. Ryan Fuller and I’m a Clinical Psychologist. I’m going to provide you with some top tips for handling anger. So the first thing we know that’s important for any kind of behavior change is in fact to be motivated. Particularly around the issue of anger, many people say they want to manage …

Transcript I’m Ryan Fuller. I’m a clinical psychologist and I have a private practice in New York City. I’m going to speak to you a little bit about some statements that can be used for assertive communication. There are lots of varieties of ways to approach a sort of communication and there are plenty of …

Transcript I’m Ryan Fuller. I’m a clinical psychologist and I have a practice in New York City. I’m going to talk to you about three behavioral styles that are often associated with anger and aggression. So the first is a passive style. And so, this typically looks like someone who avoids conflict. And what we …

Transcript So often times people make the assumption that when they’re coming in for anger management, the best case scenario is that they in fact suppress the anger. There are a lot of problems with that approach. One, by suppressing the emotion there is lots of evidence that indicate we might in fact intensify it …

Transcript Hi, I’m Dr Ryan Fuller and I’m going to speak to you a little about intermittent explosive disorder. So intermittent explosive disorder is a DSM diagnosis. That’s a diagnostic statistical manual. That’s the guide used by mental health practitioners to diagnose mental health and behavioral health disorders. IED is something diagnosed when an episode …

Transcript So another frequently asked question is, “If I give up anger, how can I be effective without it?” This is in fact a very good question because one of the most difficult issues at trying to get people to let go of anger and anger-related behaviors is that they are very effective. One thing …

Transcript So another frequently asked question oftentimes by clients enrolled in an anger management program is, “If I change my anger, aren’t I changing who I am or my personality?” Now I certainly talk to clients about this quite a bit and I’m open to their take, but my stance is that anger, in fact, …

Transcript Another frequently asked question regarding anger management is how long it will take. Now, this where there is particularly good news. So, there’s scientific evidence, in fact, that anger management can be effective with as few as eight sessions. Now with that said, most of those are done within very specific populations, and other …

Transcript Hi, I am Ryan Fuller. I’m a cognitive behavior therapist practicing in New York city. I’m going to talk to you a little bit about some frequently asked questions about anger management. The first is, “Does anger management work?” Well, the good news is that it does. Let me be clear. There are plenty …

Transcript Usually if anger is being spoken about around the construct of grief, it likely has to do with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ model of grief. In the model, she describes five stages. The first is denial, second is anger, third is bargaining, fourth depression, and then the fifth and final is acceptance. In her model, she …

Transcript I want to talk to you a little bit about anger and anxiety but also the related concepts of fear and hostility. So if we look at the emotions of anger and fear, they’re both considered to be by most theorists primary or basic emotions. So, one, they have high adaptive evolutionary value and …

Transcript Anger is frequently spoken about in the same sentence as depression. And probably, that goes back to Freud. Originally, depression was conceptualized by Freud as anger turned inward. So oftentimes, anger has been subsumed under depression as a psychopathology. Now, recent research doesn’t really indicate that that’s necessarily the case. With that said, even …

Transcript Hi, I am Dr. Ryan Fuller. I’m clinical psychologist and I am going to talk to you a little bit about question I get all the time in giving the presentations. Whether or not exercise is the best or even a good anger management strategy. So the evidence for this I think is pretty …

Transcript The first thing to keep in mind is that when it comes to anger management, especially when we’re talking about approach using mindfulness technique, it’s not so much that we’re trying to control anger, but rather learn how to experience or accept the anger and behave in ways that are in line with our …

Transcript Frequently, whenever scientists and lay people alike, are considering issues around anger or really anything, we want to look at what the gender differences are. And when it comes to anger and aggression, I think the typical assumption is that there are big differences between anger in men and women. Now while it may …

Transcript Anger is a negative emotion and, as such, most of us most of the time describe it as something that’s unpleasant. At the same time, it does have extremely important functions. One, it can alert us that something is wrong or that some goal or need is not being met with being blocked. When …

Transcript I’m Ryan Fuller, I’m a clinical physiologist with a practice in New York City. I’m going to talk you a little bit about how to help children manage anger. So when we talk about anger management for children, again I want to specify that we’re really not so much talking about anger, the feeling …

Transcript Forgiveness is something that’s brought up a lot in the context of anger management. Forgiveness though is actually a difficult term oftentimes to define and it’s frequently misunderstood. Oftentimes, people coming in with anger management issues might see forgiving a person in fact as a way of becoming a doormat. A way of sort …

Transcript I’m Dr. Ryan Fuller and I practice in New York City. I work a lot with anger management clients. Frequently I have clients ask me how to handle anger when it’s justified. The thing that I try to make clear to clients right off the bat is that I, in fact, believe all anger …

Transcript I’m Dr. Ryan Fuller, and I’m going to talk to you a little bit about how to control road rage. So road rage is a very serious issue in America and other countries as well. It’s responsible for all kinds of property damage in terms of auto accidents but also even homicides. So people …

Transcript One way to change our irrational beliefs is, in fact, to dispute them. That’s to ask challenging questions that expose these beliefs for what they are: typically illogical, not based on reality or the evidence, and ultimately leading to more intense negative emotions that are necessary to get through the moment. Possibly they lead …

Transcript I’m Dr. Ryan Fuller and I’m going to address how to handle being angry at yourself. So this is a question that, in fact, comes up a lot clinically, but there hasn’t been enough scientific attention given to anger management when the target of the anger, in fact, is the self. So if we …

Transcript I’m Dr. Ryan Fuller and I’m going to talk to you a little bit about how to manage anger when the anger is directed at your children. So, at first, I think it’s very easy for us to judge ourselves, maybe even judge other parents when we talk about being angry at our children. …

Transcript Hi am doctor Ryan Filler and I’m going to talk to you about some anger techniques you can use when dealing with a romantic partner, whether it’s boyfriend, girlfriend or spouse. The first thing is there are some advantages when the anger actually is coming from someone you know and someone who wants you …

Transcript I’m Dr. Ryan Fuller and I’m going to talk a little bit about the role that anger might have in terms of performance. So, oftentimes when we think about performing at something, we believe we sort of have to be incredibly excited, incredibly aroused, or even in the case of an aggressive sport, it …

Transcript Hi, I’m Doctor Ryan Fuller. I’m going to talk to you a little bit about good anger versus bad anger. So anger is considered to be a negative emotion. At the same time it’s important to recognize that all emotions evolved with a function. They had to provide some survival value. And while it’s …

Transcript Dr. Ryan Fuller and I practice in New York City. So a question I get a lot is, “how do I avoid things that make you angry.” The first answer is not one many people like which is probably, “you don’t.” Because the bottom line is lots and lots of things can upset us. …

Transcript Often times I asked if angry parent are going to produce angry children? While there isn’t specific evidence that a particular biological factor is necessarily genetic in nature that sort of guarantees a child is going to be angry, there may be some temperamental things that are passed on. Things like general neuroticism or …

Transcript I am Ryan Fuller, I am a clinical psychologist and I practice with clients in New York City. There are basically four components that are critical in doing a cognitive behavioral therapy approach to anger. The first is a cognitive intervention. And this is where we help socialize clients to the idea that there …

Transcript In terms of anger management, group therapy is done very frequently in the scientific literature when compared to individual therapy. And the important piece to remember is first there is scientific evidence that anger management works in a group setting. We’ve seen study after study that four different types of interventions in a group …

Transcript Oftentimes, if we think about anger, it’s considered to be one of a moral emotion. It has to do with judgments and standards and really trying to get people to do what’s right. And so I might perceive a threat or a violation to sort of the social or community kind of codes and …

Transcript I’m Ryan Fuller. I’m a clinical psychologist. And I have a practice in New York City. I’m going to talk to you a little bit about how fear can actually lead to anger or aggressive behaviors. So, interestingly for years there were theories that lots, and lots of building frustration in fact would lead …

Transcript I’m Ryan Fuller. I’m a clinical psychologist, and I practice in New York City. I’m going to talk to you a little bit about the role of pride or self-esteem in anger and aggression. So what’s been purported in lots and lots of book and certainly by even teachers and parents and all kinds …

Transcript Hi, I’m Ryan Fuller. I’m a clinical psychologist with a private practice in New York City. I’m going to talk to you a little bit about how feeling controlled might lead to aggressive behaviors. So one important finding in the area of aggression is that the buildup of frustrations over time, in fact, predicts …

Transcript I’m Ryan Fuller. I’m a clinical psychologist with a practice in New York City. I’m going to talk a little bit about how to identify what’s making you angry. So one of the critical skills to develop in anger management is self monitoring. And oftentimes I’ve clients who think of this as quite kind …

Transcript I’m Ryan Fuller. I’m a clinical psychologist with a private practice in New York City. I’m going to talk to you a little about how anger can affect our thinking in decision making. So most of us even more experiencing normal levels of anger, annoyance and irritation have probably experienced moments where we said …

Transcript I’m Ryan Fuller. I’m a clinical psychologist and I work with a lot of clients in New York City but a lot of the clients I deal with have anger management issues. So we’ve talked a little bit about irrational beliefs and how certain irrational beliefs can cause anger problems. One particular irrational belief …

Transcript I’m Ryan Fowler. I’m a clinical psychologist with a private practice in New York City. When we look at anger, it’s first important to understand one model at least for explaining how anger takes place. Typically when we talk about anger triggers, you might think about those… as we look at the ABC model. …

Transcript I’m Ryan Fuller. I’m a clinical psychologist. I’ve done anger research and I treat a lot of angry clients in New York city. I’ll talk to you a little bit about the top causes of anger. So often times when we’re talking about the causes of anger we refer to them as anger triggers. …

Transcript Frequently when we talk about anger, we’re really talking about the emotional experience of an anger phenomenon. But with that, there are also certain action tendencies and behaviors that go along with it. The most obvious, of course, are sort of aggressive anger. And really, aggression is the behavior that frequently accompanies anger, and …

Transcript There are a number of different anger theorists who have talked about different kinds of anger styles, but the one I’ll mention breaks anger styles into three forms of expression. There’s anger out. Anger out typically looks like the kinds of behaviors we see with someone that we consider to have a temper. They …

Transcript Anger is a negative feeling, and when it comes in frequencies, and intensities, and durations, and in the normal range, it can be quite healthy. Unfortunately, when it becomes really intense or really frequent, and it’s paired with behaviors that are problematic, if they’re aggressive or uncooperative, they can cause big problems and people …

Transcript I’m Dr. Ryan Fuller, and I’m going to talk to you a little bit about how to control anger with deep breathing. Anger is an emotion that has high levels of arousal associated with it. In fact, anger is one of two emotions that really go along with the fight or flight stress response. …