Treatments for Anger and Aggression

Follow the links below to find resources about dealing with anger and aggression.

Created January 2008

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Title:   Anger - being the boss of your anger
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Sometimes you just get so angry that you feel like you are going to burst! It seems like your anger will be the boss of you, instead of you being the boss of your anger. What can you do to work through that anger and keep yourself and others safe?
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Anger - how it affects people
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Anger is a powerful emotion. Uncontrolled anger may cause increased anxiety, high blood pressure and headaches and trigger fights or abuse. Anger management strategies include regular exercise and learning how to relax.
Date:   Jun 2007
Title:   Anger - What is it? How to deal with it.
Publisher:   Headroom (Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide)
Description:   While feeling angry is a natural reaction to situations that hurt or upset us, it is important that anger is expressed in a way that is not harmful to yourself or others. Letting your anger build up or exploding when you are angry can have a negative effect on your mental and physical health.
Date:   Sep 2003
Title:   Anger
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   Everyone experiences anger at some stage, but it is important to understand why people display anger and how we can try to manage it.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Managing the anger in your life
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Anger is a powerful emotion that comes from fear, frustration or strong disappointment. Anger can lead to dangerous situations unless you learn to recognise and manage it.
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Anger - feeling and facing it
Publisher:   Novita Children's Services
Description:   This page describes the emotion of anger and some practical and constructive ways of dealing with it.
Date:   Feb 2007
Title:   Anger management
Publisher:   Mental Health Association NSW
Description:   A factsheet discussing anger - causes, symptoms, effects on health, treatment, and goals of anger management.
Date:   May 2005
Title:   Feeling angry
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   What causes anger; what to do when you are feeling angry;
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Talking through angry feelings
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   Practical tips on coping with your child's anger and tantrums.
Date:   Aug 2006
Title:   Pharmacological management for agitation and aggression in people with acquired brain injury
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This review found no firm evidence that drug management of agitation and aggression in adults with acquired brain injury is effective. There was weak evidence, based on a few small randomized controlled trials, that beta-blockers can improve aggression ...
Date:   Aug 2006
Title:   Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - non-drug therapies
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Medication is an effective treatment for ADHD, but combining medication with non-drug therapies ensures a greater success rate. Non-drug therapies include behaviour modification programs, cognitive therapy, anger management training, social training and family counselling.
Date:   Feb 2007
Title:   Parenting - coping with stress
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Being a parent brings out a range of powerful emotions from exhilaration to despair. Taking out anger or frustration on your child can harm them physically and psychologically. It is important to recognise and manage negative feelings so that you can enjoy parenting and maintain a safe, happy home for your child.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Arthritis: coping with your emotions
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   You've been diagnosed with arthritis and whether you were expecting it or not, it's devastating. Learning you have a chronic illness of any sort could send your emotions into a spiral of anger and depression.
Date:   Jul 2006
Title:   Factsheet 11 - Dealing with stress
Publisher:   beyondblue
Description:   When we say we're stressed, it usually means that we're tense about something that's happening in our lives. Too much stress can lead to panic, headaches, trouble sleeping, anger, depression, anxiety and lots of other symptoms.
Title:   Behavioural and cognitive-behavioural interventions for outwardly-directed aggressive behaviour in people with learning disabilities
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Challenging behaviour is a significant cause of social exclusion for people with learning disabilities. ('Learning disabilities' is also known as ' intellectual disabilities'). There is no firm evidence as yet about which interventions help people with ...
Date:   Mar 2007
Title:   School-based secondary prevention programmes for preventing violence
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Violence is recognised as a major global public health problem, thus there has been much attention placed on interventions aimed at preventing aggressive and violent behaviour. As aggressive behaviour in childhood is considered to be a risk factor for v...
Date:   May 2006
Title:   Containment strategies for people with serious mental illness
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   People with severe mental illness can experience violent and aggressive episodes which can threaten both their safety and that of their carers. We looked for trials comparing different non-pharmaceutical containment strategies for people with severe men...
Date:   May 2006
Title:   Conduct disorder
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Conduct disorder (CD) refers to a set of problem behaviours exhibited by children and adolescents, which may involve the violation of a person, their rights or their property. Behaviours may include bullying, cruelty to animals or people, and law-breaking activities such as shoplifting, vandalism and deliberately lighting fires.
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Mental illness - family and friends
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Don't ignore warning signs of mental illness in a family member or friend. The sooner someone receives treatment, the better the outcome is likely to be. There is a lot you can do to help a person affected by mental illness.
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Pinching, biting and hair pulling
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   Why small children might pinch you, bite you or pull your hair, and ways you can get them to stop. Recognising when your baby is angry and when they are just experimenting.
Date:   Dec 2006
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