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When the judge or your spouse or your boss says you need to get into an anger management program and change now, the last thing you want to do is spend the next 2 months going to anger management meetings once a week and listen to some guy lecture you on how to straighten out your head. With your marriage or your job on the line - not to mention a possible trip to jail - you want to get started immediately, so you can fix what needs to be fixed and get on with your life.

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*Nationally recognized by State & Local Family Courts & Probation Departments

*No Other Fees or Charges - NONE!

*Free Nationally Recognized Certificate of Completion

*Free Best Selling 216 Page Book by noted author James A. Baker (not required to take or finish the online anger class)

*Course written, edited and produced by an experienced Lawyer with extensive Family Court experience & knowledge.

Our powerful online anger management courses cover everything most live classroom anger management courses and anger management seminars cover, plus they add a lot more!

You receive:

  1. Open access to the self-scoring Online Anger Management Classes of your choice.
  2. Immediate access to your certified court ordered anger management class certificate upon completion.
  3. Free Copy of the best selling Anger Management Training Book "The Anger Busting™ Workbook" - 216 pages by noted author James A. (Jim) Baker. The best selling book is NOT necessary to take or complete the anger management class.

For one low price, you will have three (3) months access to your Online Course so that can move at your own pace without being held back by a class-full of people you don't have a thing in common with except the need to get your Anger Certificate and to get your anger problems under control. With our online anger courses, you can cut through the red tape and get right down to business. The sooner you start and the harder you work, the quicker you will begin to make progress and get your life back.

Those who have already completed this practical and powerful online course tell us it not only fulfills their court-mandated anger management requirement, it also REALLY WORKS! They have been able to improve the way they deal with anger, and it has made a big difference in their relationships with their spouses, friends and coworkers. It is also fast and easy to do!

Our Online Anger Busting Anger Management Course is the most thorough and comprehensive programs of its kind. Everything you need to help you begin to CHANGE NOW is included. You can do the lessons from your computer in the comfort and privacy of your own home, accessing the online course material one lesson at a time using passwords we provide for you after you have paid for the and registered for the Online Class. All you have to supply is the courage and discipline to do the lessons, and then faithfully practice what you learn. When you have completed all 24 lessons and quizzes, you will receive a certificate of completion you can present to the court which has been signed by the bestselling author of the Anger Busting Workbook, James A. Baker.

Click here for information on how to register for the Online Anger Busting Anger™ Management Course using a major credit card. The fee is only $65 and signing up is easy so you can get started today! You also receive a free copy of James A. Baker's Best Selling Book "The Anger Busting Workbook" which you will receive within three to four business days after signing up. You do not need the workbook to take the online class or to receive the Online Anger Management Certificate of Completion.

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  • Live support is available at an additional cost but you probably won't need any.
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Good luck as you begin your Online Anger Managment road to recovery.

Sincerely,

James A. (Jim) Baker

ANGER AS ADVERSARY

Anger May Help Lawyers Win in Court, but Not at Home

Among professionals, attorneys may be the most susceptible to anger and resentment problems that lead to diminished performance on the job, greatly increased risks to health and psychological well-being, and ultimately, to unhappiness at home.

Virtually all my non-court-ordered clients with anger problems are attorneys whose continual irritability has disrupted their lives, including a few judges who fear that their anger at attorneys will unfairly influence their rulings.

The high rates of divorce, domestic violence, and alcoholism among attorneys are indications of this susceptibility that may have more to do with habits of motivation and concentration than with the stress of the job.

The practice of law requires diligent attention to a great many details that are not inherently interesting. To sustain intense focus and adequate energy levels in the absence of interest/excitement, the brain often taps into its most accessible reserve of energy, one of the more than a dozen forms of anger/resentment.

In reviewing a dull document, for instance, the brain might look for something to get peeved at, which provides the energy and focus necessary to complete the task. The brain must find provocation, however obscure, for a dominant-submissive response that evokes fear of defeat, failure, or humiliation (or fantasies of victory and dominance) to get its jolt of focusing energy.

This innocent use of anger as motivation does nothing less than put the sense of self at stake even in the most mundane tasks. Repeated over time, the entire personality shifts to a defensive adjustment. Even trivial disappointments seem like failure and rejection when consumed in a joyless drive and surrounded by a moat of irritability.

Because it acts on the entire central nervous system as an amphetamine, anger arousal always ends in a physiological "crash," often experienced as depression when the issues stimulating the anger remain unresolved. Think about it. The last time you got angry, you got depressed afterwards. The angrier you got, the more depressed you got. And that is merely the physiological response, even if you kept from doing something while angry that you were ashamed of, like hurting the feelings of someone you love.

To escape the pain of depression, the brain will look for excuses to get angry. Thus, anger springs a terrible addictive trap by providing immediate relief from the depressed mood that it eventually worsens.

Anyone can become an anger junkie, using some form of anger for:

  • Energy/motivation. You can’t get going or keep going without some anger or irritation.
  • Confidence, a stronger sense of self, you only feel certain when you’re criticizing someone or angry with someone.
  • Anxiety reduction.
  • Anger makes you feel more at ease, especially in new or uncertain situations.
  • Relief of depression. You tend to need a morning jolt of anger.

The addicted brain compulsively justifies the anger it craves, ignoring all contrary evidence in the process. Thus, judgment and reasoning are greatly impaired during anger arousal. Failure to comprehend most relevant possibilities that justify anger. That’s why people justifying their anger can sound like alcoholics claiming that they drink for the unique nutritional value of booze.

Regardless of personal levels of intelligence, during anger arousal, we perform generally as if we have a learning disability. Laboratory experiments have shown that even subtle forms of anger impair problem solving and general performances.

In addition to increasing error rates, anger narrows and rigidifies mental focus, obscuring alternative perspectives. The angry person has one "right way" of doing things, which, if selected in anger, is seldom the best way.

With the lone exception of hurting someone, there is nothing you can do angry--or resentful, irritable, grouchy, impatient, or chilly--that you can’t do better not angry.

HEALTH RISKS

The effects of anger on health have more to do with duration than with frequency and intensity. The normal experiences of overt anger lasts only a few minutes. But the subtle forms of anger--resentment, impatience, annoyance, irritability, grouchiness, and "attitude"--can go on for days at a time. A person with continual episodes of anger has a five-time greater chance of dying before age 50. Anger elevates blood pressure, increases threat of stroke, heart disease, cancer, depression, and anxiety disorders, and in general, depresses the immune system (angry people have lots of little aches and pains or get frequent colds and bouts of flu, headaches, or upset stomachs.)

To make matters worse, angry and resentful people tend to seek relief from their ill moods through other health-endangering habits, such as smoking and drinking, or through compulsive behavior such as workaholism and perfectionism.

According to Professor Arthur Miller of Harvard University Law School, good attorneys make opposing arguments seem like rank obscenities. This might be sound strategy in the courtroom—it may also explain why my clients who are judges see lawyers as impediments to their work—but it creates disaster in attachment relationships.

The formula for success in love relationships is quite the opposite: Validating the perspective of loved ones must precede disagreement. In fact, disagreemf emotions. People get the angriest, which means the most hurt, not about getting their own way, but when they feel misunderstood or disregarded by loved ones.

If adversarial skills work at all in the home they must be apent is not nearly so important as validation oplied first to the building the case of loved ones, then fairly and compassionately comparing it to your own.

Winning is a goal for the courtroom, but in families, it causes only resentment, covert hostility, and intimacy barriers. Virtually every sexual problem I have ever seen in couples has its roots in resentment. When one person in a family wins, everybody loses.

A common myth about anger problems is that they only involve hurting someone or destroying property. But this is only one of dozens of kinds of anger problems. You have an anger problem if some subtle form of anger/resentment—that you might not even be aware of—makes you do something that is not in your best interest or keeps you from doing what is in your best interest.

This could be simply putting a chilly wall between you and your loved ones, or a continual impatience that keeps you from noticing the compassion of others.

Practitioners most vulnerable to anger/resentment problems are the most actively adversarial, in general, trial lawyers.

Next are those faced with job insecurity on top of highly stressful work conditions: associates in general and partners in struggling firms. Lawyers with poor social supports and family problems and those who must fight invisible barriers of sexism and racism are also highly vulnerable.

To assess your risk of developing an anger/resentment problem, ask yourself: "Do my emotional responses seem like the fault of someone else? Does it seem that other people are trying to ‘push my buttons?’ Is the first thing that occurs to me when a problem arises ‘Who’s to blame?’ or ‘How do I get even?'"

by Steven Stosny

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