br />Anger Management
Anger Management Education, founded in 1994, provided education and psychotherapy to
individuals to help make sense of and manage anger in their everyday lives (Anger
Management 1). Anger remains a healthy emotion when expressed appropriately, although
devastating effects may still exist. Anger lies at the root of many personal and social
problems, such as child abuse, domestic and community violence, physical and verbal
abuse. Anger also affects our physical health, by contributing to headaches, migraines,
severe gastrointestinal symptoms, hypertension, and coronary artery disease. Many of us
do not have the knowledge or abilities required to express our anger as a healthy emotion.
As a result, some of us store and suppress our anger, while others may express it, but in
negative and unhealthy ways.
Doctors knew for a long time that adults who dealt with anger poorly, stand a higher
chance to develop heart disease and high blood pressure problems (Leopold 2). About 20
percent of us express angry personalities, 20 percent fairly easygoing, and the remaining
60 percent of the population fall somewhere in the middle (Foltz-Gray 132). Harvard
researchers found that those with higher levels of anger stood at an increased risk of heart
attack (133). In a study published in Health Psychology in 1999, heart-attack patients in
Canada who received anger management training made significant reduction in blood
pressure levels and needed less follow up care compared with the control group (134).
According to Jerry Deftenbacher, some people really are more “œhotheaded than other are,
they get angry more easily and more intensely than the average person does (Controlling
