eNEWSLETTER
May 2003
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Welcome to Clayfield Counselling Services May eNewsletter!
Anger Management
The focus this month is on Anger. The website links below may be of interest when looking at anger and how it affects our lives. Anger being one of the emotional states both commonly experienced by children and adults.
Over the last couple of months there has been a lot of media focus on road rage. What role models are we presenting to our children? Children exposed to violent outbursts are not learning a healthy way to express anger.
In the home environment, psychologist Toby Green (Courier Mail 04/05/03) writes about the Ka-boom Syndrome - which often happens to children between 4pm and 6pm when they are becoming tired and their parents are becoming impatient. When both parties' physical and emotional limits clash they can explode.
TRIGGERS: fatigue, frustration, anger, and confusion
In these situations, parents usually send children to their rooms to cool down, they don't take the outburst personally, but as adults it's a different situation e.g. men will often retreat when upset, and only come out when they have calmed down. Many women think that this is a copout, as women feel that the p roblems is left unresolved and the conflict is left dangling. Women can express their feelings of anger analytically; men don't, and often lash out when angered. Women have a more accessible emotional vocabulary whereas men simply often don’t have the skills to communicate.
After extensively researching the internet and written material we came across an article prepared by Janet Renuart, Ph.D., NASP, School Psychologist, Clay County School System in the United States .
The website address is : http://www.clay.k12.fl.us/Root/Psychological_Articles/anger&violence.PDF
This article is in a .PDF format and you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to access this file, if you don't have it, you can download it for free at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/
The article, entitled: "Why are today's children so angry? Why are we seeing so much violent behaviour from ever younger children?" is particularly interesting and in keeping with the topic of this newsletter.
Website of interest
www.crisiscounseling.com/Articles/AngryChildren.htm
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Until next time then...
"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." - Chinese proverb
The editorial team at Clayfield Counselling Services