Anger Management for Everyone: Seven Proven Ways to Control Anger and Live a Happier Life

Raymond Chip Tafrate · Howard Kassinove

Jan 2009 · Impact Publishers

About this ebook

Now, from the authors of Anger Management: The Complete Treatment Guidebook for Practitioners, here at last is a comprehensive program for the rest of us! Tafrate and Kassinove bring their expertise and research-based understanding to everyone interested in controlling their anger. Is your anger:

• making others uncomfortable and creating distance in your relationships?
• disrupting your ability to think clearly and make good decisions?
• resulting in behaviors that you later regret or recall with embarrassment?

Anger Management for Everyone shows you how to cope with life's adversity, unfairness, and disappointment, so you can successfully "put anger in its proper place and live a vital, happy, and upbeat life."

Ratings and reviews

ANGER MANAGEMENT FOR EVERYONE is a practical, easy to follow guide to getting control of your anger so that you can live a more productive life today. Written by anger-experts, Tafrate and Kassinove, the reader can feel assured that these recommendations are based on proven research and clinical wisdom. Rather than get angry, get this book. --Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D., Director, American Institute for Cognitive Therapy, New York, NY 10022, Editor, JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY: AN INTERNATIONAL QUARTERLY This exceptional book will be invaluable to anyone who wants to understand and manage anger in their lives. It is based on a well-researched approach, written in a clear and down-to-earth style, and contains practical suggestions to quickly bring excessive anger under control. Drs. Tafrate and Kassinove, two seasoned anger management experts, help readers generate solutions to problems when that is possible and to accept the negative realities of life when that is the only recourse. In addition to clearly presenting their seven anger control techniques, they help you understand how to live a happier and more fulfilling life. I strongly recommend this fine book. --Denis G. Sukhodolsky, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Yale University School of Medicine, Child Study Center ...the best self-help book on anger I have yet come across. --Raymond DiGiuseppe, Ph.D., ABPP, Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, St. John's University, Past President, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies

This book hits a homerun. Easy, smart, and practical. It really is helping, changing my life.

Easy to read, easy to understand, and great exercises.

About the author

Raymond Chip Tafrate, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and professor in the criminology and criminal justice department at Central Connecticut State University. He is a fellow and supervisor at the Albert Ellis Institute in New York City, NY, and a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. He frequently consults with criminal justice agencies and programs regarding difficult-to-change problems such as anger dysregulation and criminal behavior. He has coauthored numerous books, and has presented his research throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Howard Kassinove, PhD, ABPP, is a board-certified clinical psychologist, former chairperson of the psychology department at Hofstra University, and past director of their PhD program in clinical and school psychology. Kassinove is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Albert Ellis Institute, and the Behavior Therapy and Research Society. The editor of Anger Disorders, he has published more than sixty papers, and has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and Asia.