Press Release - Anger Busting™
The Anger Management Training Institute
LLC
June Issue of Archives of General Psychiatry Underscores
Need for Anger & Rage Management as demonstrated
by Anger
Management Training Institute
Summary:
Houston, TX (PRWeb) June 2006 -- Results of a research
study published in the June 2006 issue of the Archives
of General Psychiatry serve to reinforce the urgent
need for effective and widely available anger management
training programs, according to James A. Baker, founder
and director of the Anger Management Training Institute.
“This research simply reinforces empirically what
we experience anecdotally every day,” exclaimed
Baker. “We are seeing an anger
epidemic of almost tsunami type proportions sweeping
across our culture.” www.Anger-Busting.com
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Houston, TX (PRWeb) June 2006 -- Results of a research
study published in the June 2006 issue of the Archives
of General Psychiatry serve to reinforce the urgent
need for effective and widely available anger management
training programs, according to James A. Baker, founder
and director of the Anger Management Training Institute
LLC. Baker, who is the author of the highly claimed
best selling Anger
Busting™ Workbook, is a vocal advocate for
anger management recovery programs.
“This research simply reinforces empirically
what we experience anecdotally every day,” exclaimed
Baker, whose anger management programs serve hundreds
of clients around the country on a daily basis. “We
are seeing an anger epidemic of almost tsunami type
proportions sweeping across our culture, and the available
resources in the fields of mental health, medicine,
social services, criminal justice and the faith communities
are woefully unprepared to deal with it. It is sobering
and frightening.”
The study, conducted by researchers from Harvard University
and the University of Chicago, and can be found in detail
on www.Anger-Busting.com conducted personal interviews
of 9,282 people over the age of 18 during a period from
2001-2003. The results of the survey turned up two particularly
troubling problems. First of all, the study demonstrated
that at least 5% of the total population of the US experience
at least five rage events per year in which they physically
assault someone, threaten serious bodily injury or destroy
property. Termed by psychiatrists as Intermittent Explosive
Disorder (IED), the high incidence of this behavior
would make it more common in the general population
than either schizophrenia or bi-polar disorder. IED
could well be the driving force behind road rage, family
violence, workplace violence and other destructive
expressions of anger.
The other troubling aspect of this report is the conclusion
that the prevalence of this condition is expanding rapidly
in younger populations, with boys showing symptoms at
an average age of 13 and girls becoming symptomatic
by age 19. Researchers also concluded that IED is an
excellent predictor of the onset of depression, alcoholism
and drug abuse. While there is no clear explanation
of this sudden upsurge in IED, researchers do believe
that IED can be controlled or alleviated through a therapeutic
regimen including both medication and cognitive therapy.
Getting help is the key to getting well.
“Finally we have a conclusive nationwide study
from a highly credible source that supports what I have
been advocating for years,” declared Baker.
“We have got to take anger seriously. We are seeing
it develop into a stand-alone addiction that is totally
baffling standard treatment methodologies. For years,
anger has been treated as a secondary problem produced
by underlying root causes. That approach is totally
out of date now. Anger isn’t a symptom; it is
a problem, and it is getting worse every day.”
The approach Baker advocates in the Anger
Busting™ Workbook treats rage as an addiction,
relying on a training program that is reminiscent of
some of the basic concepts that fuel the 12-Step processes
found in Alcoholics Anonymous and similar programs.
Baker emphasizes that anger addicts – rageaholics,
as he refers to them – can begin to experience
significant and rapid improvement if they remain on
the program and see it through.
“We get letters and emails daily from folks telling
us that our program has changed their lives,”
says Baker with obvious satisfaction beaming from his
face. “Angry people are desperate people who really
want help and just don’t know where to turn. They
respond with real hope when we tell them that if they
will do the work, they can get better. Most of them
have already given up.”
The success of the workbook led Baker to create the
Anger Management Training Institute, which offers both
online and live training classes for clients who need
help, as well as for those members of the helping community
who are working with them to overcome their problem.
Counselors and those in the social services can receive
training to become a Certified
Anger Resolution Therapist through Baker’s
program, and deliver anger management services to their
clients based on Baker’s unique system.
“We are making progress one day and one person
at a time,” explained Baker. “But it is
the struggle of a lifetime. I hope this new study builds
a fire under people and motivates them to do something.
If you are an anger addict, ask for help. If you are
in a relationship with an anger addict, call and ask
for help. We can help you change now, if you are willing
to take the first step.”
For more information:
James A. Baker
Anger Management Training Institute LLC
713-627-7700
www.AngerManagementSeminar.com
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