Under Construction
Clinicians:
clinicians feel ill-prepared to
manage clients with serious anger
management issues that stem
f r om c omp l i c a t e d l e a r n i n g
histories. As a group, angry
patients tend to be treatment
resistant when traditional talk
therapy is utilized as the primary
treatment. All to often clinicians set
e x p e c t a t i o n s t h a t a r e
unreasonable and then become
frustrated when they are not met.
However, there are a variety of
treatment interventions that have
proven to show efficacy with
treatment resistant patients.
Dr. Perna feels that the following
topics need to be understood when
working with angry patients:
Confronting the “Monster” within us
Anger Dread
Process vs. Content
topics need to be understood when
working with angry patients:
Confronting the “Monster” within us
Anger Dread
Process vs. Content