From the authors of the classic self-help guide, Anger Management for Everyone, comes a comprehensive and customizable resource to help you effectively treat client anger.

Anger is a universal emotion. However, when anger becomes dysregulated or morphs into aggression, intervention is called for. Using Howard Kassinove and Raymond Tafrate's innovative and modular SMART (Selection Menu for Anger Reduction Treatment) model for treating anger, this book offers customizable treatment strategies to help you create an individualized plan tailored to your specific client and their needs.

With this powerful and evidence-based guide, you'll learn how to help clients understand and manage unhealthy anger before it becomes a problem. You'll find motivational interviewing techniques, strategies for engaging clients in therapy, and tips for incorporating different treatment methods such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and dialectical...

Raymond Chip Tafrate, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and professor in the criminology and criminal justice department at Central Connecticut State University. He is a fellow and supervisor at the Albert Ellis Institute in New York City, NY, and a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. He frequently consults with criminal justice agencies and programs regarding difficult-to-change problems such as anger dysregulation and criminal behavior. He has coauthored numerous books, and has presented his research throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.