An Anger Management Group

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This paper presents a blueprint for a group that involves teenagers that have been abused or neglected. The paper relates that abuse and neglect often serve as later trigger points for inappropriate and angry responses from the teens that endured the neglect. The paper designs a group setting in a private school for the teenagers to learn how to work through the past abuse and to learn to trust again. The paper explains how using humanistic approaches combined with Irvin Yalom's specific approaches will allow group members to learn appropriate responses to anger triggers, while at the same time learn to recognize future abuse situations and to react with a healthy and proactive approach.

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"The group will be comprised of teenagers whose primary issue is the past abuse and neglect that they have endured at the hands of either a family member or another caretaker. Each adolescent or teenager in the group has had an encounter with juvenile authorities and has had to be taken into juvenile court for delinquent behavior. The individuals have not committed the same offenses. The only criteria for entrance is that they have had to be seen in a juvenile court for anger related offenses. These can include assault, non compliance at school, defiance of parents or other caretaker's desires, refusal to comply with curfew or altercations with law enforcement issues."

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