What’s Good About Anger? 26-week/hour online certificate course

This What’s Good About Anger? 26-week/hour Anger Management Online Certificate Course is geared for individuals who desire personal growth or are court/employer mandated to take anger management. Includes combination book/workbook, Video on flash drive (65 min), quizzes and certificate upon completion.

Please check with the court or employer for pre-approval.
Overview and Instructions
Lessons (each lesson equals one hour of course work):

• 1.Anger: friend or foe?
• 2. The Process of Anger – its triggers
• 3.What IS Good About Anger?
• 4. Defusing Anger by Managing Stress
• 5. Handling Anger Effectively
• 6. Anger and Assertiveness
• 7. Managing Conflict
• 8. Turn Your Anger into Forgiveness
• 9. When to Take a Time-Out
• 10.Plan to Change Your Life by Changing Your Thinking

Part Two: Building Personal & Relationship Skills to Drain Anger

11. Empathy and Emotional Intelligence
12. Building Successful Relationships
13. Case Study Application
14. Reinterpreting Judgments and Expectations
15. Choosing Behavior Alternatives
16. Assertiveness Skills and The ASERT Approach

Part Three: Managing Conflict and Anger – Not People

17. Evaluating Your Conflict Style
18. What’s Good About Conflict?
19. Keys to Collaboration
20. Four Steps to Managing Anger
21. Winning or Resolving Conflict Amicably?
22. Applying the SUM-UP and CONNECT Skills
23. Control Issues – Take Responsibility
24. Stress Inventory and Personal Adjustment Evaluation
25. Stress Relievers
26. Conflict and Control Issues

Are you mandated by a court, employer, school or institution to take an anger management course? This certificate course includes 26 weeks/hours of lessons and assignments based on the fifth  edition of What’s Good About Anger? with expanded topics, DVD, quizzes, final exam, recommendations and a 26 week/hour certificate of completion. You will receive the 52 week workbook. The online course includes 26 lessons and quizzes see outline below.

Many courts and employers throughout the USA have approved our online and home study anger management courses. This distance-learning anger management course is presented by Lynette Hoy, a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in the state of Illinois, a National Certified Counselor and crisis counselor. Lynette Hoy has been credentialed by the National Anger Management Association (NAMA) as an Anger Management Specialist-V. Mrs. Hoy is a Diplomate, Anger Management Consultant and Supervisor with NAMA. Lynette is the co-author of all editions of What’s Good About Anger?, the author of all the workbooks and training manuals. Mrs. Hoy has trained hundreds of students and clients in anger and conflict management.

Certificate is granted when the test is completed. Contact Lynette Hoy for questions about these courses or call 630.368.1880.

The 26-week course covers the following topics and goals:

Teaches how to decrease stress and turn anger into assertiveness, problem-solving, conflict management, empathy and forgiveness! Participants learn to identify the problem, power and process of anger (from annoyance to bitterness or rage); effective examples of “good anger”; and how research-based skills impact anger and can be used for good purposes.

Participants will gain a new perspective on anger, how to prevent flare-ups and how to better manage responses to provoking situations. Chronic anger can be costly – physically, emotionally and relationally. Most people can use their anger in appropriate ways in some situations, and yet can be ineffectual or harmful in other situations. Participation in this anger management course can reduce levels of anger, and help individuals learn ways to direct anger into healthy, effective coping behaviors to stop escalation, achieve healthy goals and to resolve conflicts.
Logging anger, triggering situations and applying new approaches helps individuals to contain and manage anger.

Goals: To reduce levels of anger in provocative situations. To learn effective coping behaviors in order to halt escalation of anger and to resolve conflicts.

The What’s Good About Anger? 26-week/hour anger management program employs these major areas and anger control interventions:

• Identifying triggers
• Logging scenarios
• Applying new skills such as: time-outs, prayer
• Addressing issues with assertiveness
• Establishing a plan of action
• Relaxation Techniques
• Learning to negotiate
• Stress Management Skills
• Changing self-talk
• Managing Stress
• Learning to forgive
• Managing Conflict
• Gaining Control Over Emotions
• Building Relationship Skills
• Developing Emotional Intelligence Skills
• Applying Collaboration Skills
• Building Healthy Relationships
• Learning to Problem-solve

It is your responsibility to confirm with the judge or your attorney as to whether a distance-learning anger management program will meet the court requirement.