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Carlos Todd
Member since 20th June 2007
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14th August 2007
Anger has a unique place in our lives. Let me illustrate. The physical body has its own defender -- the immune system. This intricate system has many mechanisms to defend our body against foreign forces. Everyday the physical body defends against the atta...
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14th August 2007
Why we need anger
Why do we need anger? Consider the following reasons.
• To protect our rights
• To help us maintain an individual identity
• To ward off those who are bent on preying on the weak
• To moralize against social injustice
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27th July 2007
Licensed mental health clinicians including psychologists, clinical social workers and licensed professional counselors are all familiar with and are trained to perform assessments. The most common may be the psychosocial assessment. This assessment takes...
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24th July 2007
In sports, some degree of aggressiveness is vital. Don’t get me wrong, when I use the word aggressive I am referring to that fierce, tenacious spirit that builds true winners. It is the kind of spirit that allows the sports person to fail and reenergize...
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24th July 2007
Imagine that appliances and tools that we buy from time to time came with no instructions. As a matter of fact let me broaden this idea. Imagine that a tool shows up at your front door with a tag saying, “use me”. Imagine the confusion you may feel. Y...
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03rd July 2007
A few days ago I asked my assistant to catalog a list of 200 contrasting positive and negative feeling words from a list of a few thousand feeling words. Amazingly my assistant completed this task in less than three hours but more amazingly she made an ob...
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03rd July 2007
I have been reflecting upon the Tyra Banks “Fat Attack” and as a provider of anger management services, I must say that I am very proud of how maturely she handled this whole fiasco about her weight gain. So much is said about celebrates who, in fits ...
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03rd July 2007
Passing thought a traffic light the other day got me to thinking. What if there were no amber lights. The answer instantly returned-serious accidents and death daily. The creation of the amber light between the green and red light is as ingenious innovati...
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03rd July 2007
Is there really a time when anger is justified? Do we have a right to get angry? The answer is a resounding yes. This question is not in dispute. Anger has been a powerful tool for personal and social change as evidenced by the feminist, civil rights, ant...
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03rd July 2007
Do you need an anger management class?
Despite the apparent oversaturation of anger management consciousness there still seems to be a lack of clarity about what anger management is and when it is appropriate. At my organization--Todd’s Anger Managem...
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26th June 2007
In part three of this series of articles I will examine the ADA model. ADA stands for awareness-dialogue-action. It is the assertion of this author that mastering anger awareness and emotional literacy is key to anger management. One must be aware of the...
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26th June 2007
In part the last article entitled Change Your Language and Reduce Your Anger I introduce the idea of how a poor emotional vocabulary was linked to anger management. I suggested that anger is a secondary emotion driven by many primary emotions. This conc...
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26th June 2007
I am a firm believer in the idea that how humans express language holds one of the keys to reducing anger. The world renowned anger management from Anderson and Anderson proposes that anger management, stress management, emotional intelligence and communi...
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26th June 2007
Daily I am visited by the angry. Their expressions of rage are cries for help; however these are not innocent cries. As angry cries ring out, a trail of emotional and physical destruction litter their path. Somehow society tend to ignore the small droplet...
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26th June 2007
Anger management is a psycho-education intervention. How an individual learns to express their anger is learned. Anger management interventions are therefore designed to unlearn old skills and teach new skills. Anger management is neither counseling nor p...
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