Angry Kids, Angry Parents - Understanding and Working With Anger in Your Family

Psychologists Anne Hilde Vassbø Hagen and Joanne Dolhanty explain everything you need to know about your child’s anger and how to manage it.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Anger Can Be Useful
I. The Power of Anger
Chapter 1. Constructive Versus Destructive Anger
Chapter 2. Challenge 1: Anger as a Cloaking Device
Chapter 3. Challenge 2: New Day, Same Old Anger
Chapter 4. Challenge 3: Adopting the Stance of Anger
Chapter 5. Challenge 4: When Anger Gets Aggressive
II. Responding to Your Child’s Anger
Chapter 6. The Art of Validating Anger
Chapter 7. From Validation to Problem Solving
Chapter 8. Troubleshooting While Validating
Chapter 9. But I’m Not a Robot: Parents Have Feelings, Too
Chapter 10. The Magic of Apology
III. Setting and Enforcing Limits
Chapter 11. All About Boundaries
Chapter 12. Setting Limits
Chapter 13. Giving Consequences
Chapter 14. Troubleshooting While Setting Limits
Afterword
References
Index
About the Authors
 

About the author

By Anne Hilde Vassbø Hagen, cand.psychol, and Joanne Dolhanty, PhD, CPsych

Summary

Gives parents all the information they need to know about their children’s, and their own, anger and aggression. This book shines a light on the misunderstood elements of anger and reminds people why it is an essential emotion.

Product details

• Authors: Joanne Dolhanty, Anne Hilde Vassbo Dolhanty Hagen, Anne Hilde Dolhanty Vassb Hagen, Anne Hilde Vassbø Hagen, Anne Hilde Vassbo Hagen, Anne Hilde Dolhanty Vassbo Hagen, Anne Hilde Vassbø Hagen
• Publisher: American psychological assn
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781433840654
• ISBN: 978-1-4338-4065-4
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: APA Lifetools; APA LifeTools Series
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology