Anger Management: The Complete Treatment Guidebook for Practitioners

Howard Kassinove · Raymond Chip Tafrate

Jan 2002 · Impact Publishers

About this ebook

The field of anger management is cluttered with fiction, myth, and wishful thinking. Here at last is a research-based and empirically validated "anger episode model." Kassinove and Tafrate offer a comprehensive program that can be implemented almost immediately; they clearly spell out how to help clients understand, manage, and prevent unhealthy anger. Features training procedures and guidelines for assessment, understanding, awareness, motivation, and relapse prevention.

Ratings and reviews

...a highly practical book, with many powerful clinical interventions...I highly recommend this thought-provoking and very useful book. -- Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D. Director, American Institute for Cognitive Therapy, New York, NY Editor, JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY: AN INTERNATIONAL QUARTERLY ...an absolutely great practitioners' book...I recommend this book highly for all therapists who deal with anger management... -- E. Thomas Dowd, Ph.D., ABPP Professor of Psychology, Kent State University President, American Board of Behavioral Psychology ...multimodal and comprehensive approaches for teaching clients...how to reduce and manage anger. Remarkably well done...very worthwhile reading. -- Albert Ellis, Ph.D. Albert Ellis Institute, New York City A well-written guidebook...The authors nicely integrate theory into clinical practice which can be used with diverse clinical populations. -- Ann Marie Kopeck, LCSW, BCB, CAC The step-by-step approach overlooks nothing as it comprehensively addresses how to help people gain control over this emotion... -- Richard Suinn, Ph.D., ABPP Emeritus Professor, Colorado State University Past President, American Psychological Association

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About the author

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. Editor of Anger Disorders, he has published more than sixty papers, and has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and Asia.