title: Teaching healthy anger management.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Teaching anger management in the community.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To describe anger management and offer guidelines for assessing potential participants and teaching healthy behaviors.
  
  
  METHODS
  Drawing from the literature, more than 10 years of quantitative and qualitative studies by our research team, and 5 years of experience in conducting anger management groups, the author presents basic principles of teaching anger management. A model is described for a 4-week group for women.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Anger management has wide applicability to a variety of constituencies for both primary and secondary prevention. Advanced practice psychiatric nurses are well-qualified to provide this psychoeducational intervention.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Tennessee, USA. Sthomas@utk.edu
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Thomas
mesh_terms: D000786:Anger; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D012648:Self Care; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*