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Book SynopsisClient anger is a perennial problem for a range of professionals working in clinical settings. Working with Anger presents an alternative strategy to the most common approach, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), exploring instead how anger can be tackled from a personal constructivist perspective.
Table of ContentsAbout the Editor ix
List of Contributors xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xvii
1 The Construction of Emotion 1
Peter Cummins
2 The Tuesday Group 13
Peter Cummins
3 Shedding Violent Expressions of Anger Constructively 25
Chris J. Laming
4 Time and Tools?: Tools or Time? 45
Gina Selby
5 Experiential Personal Constructivism and Anger 65
Larry M. Leitner and Jill C. Thomas
6 Working with Angry Children 83
Heather Moran
7 The Angry Adolescent and Constructivist REBT 99
Robert W. Adelman
8 Mr Angry 115
Graeme Sutherland
9 Making Me Angry: The Constructions of Anger 131
Harry Procter and Rudi Dallos
10 Gender and Anger 149
Bhavisha Dave, Dina Pekkala, Diane Allen and Peter Cummins
11 Pathways in the Development of Anger: Appraisal, Action and Regulation 159
Michael F. Mascolo, James C. Mancuso and Tammy Dukewich
12 Challenging Traditional Approaches to School Violence: Alternative Constructions of Youth Anger and Aggression 173
Marc D. McLaughlin, Melissa A. Maras, Christopher J. Reiger and Carl E. Paternite
13 Philosophical Writing on Anger and Violence and its Relation to Personal Construct Psychology 189
Bill Warren
14 Evaluation 199
Dina Pekkala and Bhavisha Dave
Index 213
