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October 2, 2012 By Dr. Greg Hamlin

Anger Management Worksheets: Correcting Your Anger Lens

Anger Management Worksheets:  Correcting Your Anger Lens
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Anger is often out of proportion to the situation.

I have just created a new worksheet that begins a series of anger management worksheets based on the 12 Skills of Honest Optimism.  The main concept is that any episode of anger usually has a driving thought.  If the anger is out of proportion to the situation, the driving thought is usually dysfunctional.  In other words, when we are angry we often have one intense thought that sustains the intense emotion of anger.  To decrease the intensity we need skills for changing the distorted thoughts. And the skills need tools to practice them in real, angry situations.  This is the reason for creating tools in the form of anger management worksheets.  This particular one is called, “Correcting Your Anger Lens” and can be downloaded in PDF format by clicking on this link:

“Correcting Your Anger Lens” PDF Worksheet

(Right Click and Select “SAVE AS” or “SAVE LINK AS”)

Such an approach is the essence of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and is more effective than simply, “trying to calm down.”

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