Practical Skills for Working with a Client’s Anger – NICABM

Five Skills to Immediately Defuse Anger

Marsha Linehan, PhD Stephen Porges, PhD
Kelly McGonigal, PhD Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT

• An emergency technique to halt a client’s rapidly escalating anger
• The one skill that stops rising anger so you can problem-solve
• One subtle tweak to a breathing exercise that can bring down a client’s arousal state

How to Help Your Client Release “Stuck” Anger

Peter Levine, PhD Pat Ogden, PhD

• Why posture may hold the key to integrating a client’s angry parts
• How to create new bodily experiences that override a client’s anger
• Rage vs. collapse: how to help a client integrate two incompatible parts of their anger

Strategies To Help Your Clients Stay Engaged With Their Anger

Marsha Linehan, PhD Joan Borysenko, PhD
Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT

• The one crucial idea you need to “sell” to your angry clients
• The powerful “Fact Check” that can stop anger in its tracks
• The one question that shifts a client from reactive to reflective

Why Anger Can Become an Addiction – And How to Help Clients Break Free

Rick Hanson, PhD Steven Hayes, PhD Joan Borysenko, PhD
Kelly McGonigal, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD

• The one emotion that looks identical to anger in the brain
• How a “hair trigger body” creates a “hair trigger psyche”
• The deep connection between temperament and the immune system
• Why clients with depression may have a greater addiction to expressions of anger

How to Approach the Rageful Parts of Trauma-based Anger

Pat Ogden, PhD Bessel van der Kolk, MD Ron Siegel, PsyD

• Why the subcortical brain can dominate the way trauma survivors express anger
• Why we may need to be more concerned with a non-hostile client
• Why most “anger management” training fails

How to Help Clients Overcome the Main Fear That Drives Hostility

Sue Johnson, EdD Dan Siegel, MD
Ron Siegel, PsyD Joan Borysenko, PhD

• The one deep-rooted fear that fuels most anger in relationships
• How neuroplasticity can help us get inside a client’s anger
• How to pull an angry client back in when they shut down in a relationship
• How to work with a client’s core vulnerability that drives the fear-anger cycle

What Can Go Wrong When Working with Angry Couples

Ellyn Bader, PhD Stan Tatkin, MFT

• One strategy to help expand a client’s empathy for their partner
• How your opening question to an angry couple could actually be lighting their fuse
• How to work with the narcissism that can block a client’s ability to empathize

How to Work with an Angry Client Who Is Critical of You

Zindel Segal, PhD Linda Graham, MFT Sue Johnson, EdD
Stan Tatkin, MFT Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT

• Practical strategies to help you stay centered when facing criticism
• The “Compassionate Barrier” skill, and how it can keep you connected in a session
• One way to defuse a client’s anger in mandated therapy
• How to go “one down” in your physiological state to avoid acting out your counter-transference

Two Ways to Work With a Passive-Aggressive Client

Rick Hanson, PhD Zindel Segal, PhD

• How to slow down a client’s escalating anger to allow for more awareness
• How to reframe a client’s sense of disappointment to help them see progress in their healing
• A nuanced strategy for working with a narcissistic client who challenges your clinical abilities

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