Hey there everybody and welcome to this counseling continuing education presentation on a 10-session anger management protocol.

I'm your host, Dr. Donnelly's Snipes.

In this presentation, you're going to learn about anger and its functions.

Explore early warning signs, figure out how to develop an anger control plan.

Learn about the aggression cycle and how to change it.

Review the AB CDE's and explore how prior learning influences current anger triggers.

Session one.

In session one, you're going to learn about anger. Anger is an emotion triggered by a threat that prompts the fight or flight reaction. This is what we call the

HPA axis or what I call the threat response system. And when this happens, your body dumps

adrenaline. It dumps cortisol. It dumps glutamate. It dumps all these chemicals and hormones that are

designed to give you the energy to check out if there's a problem and if necessary, fight or flee.

Just like a smoke alarm tells you that

hey there might be a fire your threat response system tells you hey there might be a threat it's not saying there is it's saying there might be and here's a bunch of energy so you can get up and figure out if there

is a threat and respond if needed hostility refers to a set of attitudes thoughts and judgments

that motivate aggressive behaviors aggression is a behavior that's intended to protect oneself by causing harm or energy to another person or damage to property.

What's the benefit of aggression?

Well, if we're feeling threatened and we want to fight or flee, and in this case, fight, then the goal is to regain control to regain power in the situation so

aggression serves to forcibly take back power many times what we initially

perceive as a threat is actually not currently one, but our reaction is based on

outdated schema. And schema are our brains' cliffs notes, if you will. Every time we have an

experience, our brain notes what happened, you know, just very short short quick little summaries of what happened

and that helps us predict the future we have schemas about going to work we have

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