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Online Activities Dealing With Anger Management in Teens

Teaching adolescents to deal with anger involves focusing on constructive ways to communicate effectively, identify the feelings of others, develop empathy and cope effectively with stress. Resources such as interactive games, activities, and printable writing exercises are available online to help teens understand their feelings and the feelings of others. Interactive worksheets clarify problems and develop solutions based upon the responses. Anger management classes designed by mental health professionals can even be taken online.

  1. Coping Kit

    • Interactive Coping Kit

      MindYourMind.org offers an interactive Coping Kit designed to help teens cope with their anger, hurt and other feelings. The Coping Kit is presented as a notebook that teens can write in while learning and exploring their feelings. Teens can learn different ways to identify and cope with their overwhelming feelings. Problems are identified and the solutions are discovered by the teen on their own through the printable writing activities. Coping Kit creates a tangible resource for coping in a crisis.

    Life Journal

    • Life Journal interactive notebook

      Life Journal is available through MindYourMind.org and is an interactive resource for teens to help identify anger and cope with it in a healthy way. Life Journal consists of questions in which the teens write their answers and in doing so learn techniques for dealing with stress and anger and learning how to stay in control during a crisis. Life Journal is a fun way to release negative emotions and develop positive ones and also helps teens identify support systems and other sources of empowerment. Life Journal may be printed for personal reference as well.

    Anger Class Online

    • Online anger management class

      The Anger Management Class online is for teens and consists of a self-paced eight-hour classes. The class and curriculum was designed by Ari Novick, Ph.D., a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and certified anger management provider and by Tony Fiore, Ph.D, a licensed clinical psychologist and a certified anger management provider. The class covers 10 chapters of the "Anger Management for the Twenty-first Century and the 8-Tools of Anger Control," curriculum and a final examination. These classes teach youth the "Eight Tools of Anger Control," including:
      Tool 1 - Recognize Stress
      Tool 2 - Develop Empathy
      Tool 3 - Respond Instead of React
      Tool 4 - Change That Conversation With Yourself
      Tool 5 - Communicate Assertively
      Tool 6 - Adjust Expectations
      Tool 7 - Forgive But Don't Forget!
      Tool 8 - Retreat and Think Things Over!
      The Adolescent Anger class costs $195.

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