Helping Your Angry Child: A Workbook for You and Your Family [Paperback]

Darlyne Gaynor Nemeth (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 10, 2003

Helping Your Angry Child, written by three leading anger researchers, is an interactive, self-help workbook written for you, the parent, with real-world solutions for helping your child deal with anger and rage. Based on over ten years of clinical study and experience, the authors learned that when a child exresses anger, most likely the parent takes it personally and gets caught in negative reactions.

This new book teaches essential skills that will put you safely back in your parental role, helping you and your child cope with anger in healthy ways. Included are many interactive worksheets that will help the entire family by practicing these new skills feel closer an dmore unified. You will learn how to:

• Teach your child anger-management skills
• Relate to others within the family when strong emotions arise
• Understand, recognize, label, and deal with the anger a child expresses
• Listen without reacting to a child’s anger, and
• Always be prepared to be a good parent

Editorial Reviews

Review

“When parents can process their anger and talk respectfully about strong feelings, they set a powerful, positive example for their young children. This new workbook gives parents (and teachers) many useful anger-management exercises for relating to both their young children’s anger and frustration as well as techniques for helping their children learn how to handle angry feelings. Any parent whose child struggles with anger should get this book.”
–Matthew McKay, Ph.D., author, When Anger Hurts and When Anger Hurts Your Kids

“In this inviting text, based on sound principals of developmental psychology, and clinical experience, the authors have accomplished making the often-dreaded task of anger management in children easier, even playful. I highly recommend this practical guide to parents, teachers counselors, and their young charges.”
—Susanne M. Jensen, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, Baton Rouge, LA

From the Publisher

Three leading anger researchers present an interactive, self-help workbook for parents who need real-world solutions to their children's anger. When children express their anger, parents often take it personally, get caught in negative reactions, have difficulty staying in proper parental roles, and become bewildered by the anger. The authors give readers essential skills that put them safely back in parental roles, and help them and their children cope in healthy ways with anger.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition (March 10, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572243120
• ISBN-13: 978-1572243125
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #159,604 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not for everyone, May 30, 2007

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K-Lab (WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Helping Your Angry Child: A Workbook for You and Your Family (Paperback)

While the activities in this book may work for some people, I myself was put off by the often patronizing and otherwise corny tone. The focus of the book is on the entire family, which may be helpful for people with more dysfunctional family relationships. Even though I consider our family to have its share of "dysfunction," I couldn't relate our family to the six types of FAT or "Family Affective Themes," which sounded interesting to begin with but found nothing seemed to match up with the stated results or really make any sense as far as our family is concerned, therefore I questioned the validity of whether these categories are theoretical or oversimplified and whether they work in reality. If you believe your child's angry outbursts are the result of imitating behaviors learned at home then this book might be a good choice. As for our family, where the anger in one of our children seemed really "out of left field," the book that helped us is The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Ross W. Greene, which takes the perspective that angry explosive outbursts are triggered by an inability to handle changes and a tendency to become easily frustrated, comparing the deficit in these skills to more commonly understood "lags" in abilities such as reading or athletics. We also liked the workbook A Volcano in My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger : A Resource Book for Parents, Caregivers and Teachers by Eliane Whitehouse and Warwick Pudney, which offers simple anger-related activities and advice for parents and teachers in a more straightforward and less condescending way.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT, February 28, 2007

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RSD Fyter "Lisa" (SIcklerville, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Helping Your Angry Child: A Workbook for You and Your Family (Paperback)

THis book helped not only me understand my child more, but understand myself and my ex-husband more. Me and my ex-husbands girlfriend got together for my 8 yr old daughter's well-being and are starting a family out-speak night with this book. I can't wait to see how it goes! I've already used some of the techniques in the book and THEY WORK!!! If you have a child that is acting out...This is the bok to buy!
Lisa D 38 yr old single mother of 2
South Jersey

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for Families with Young Kids, November 7, 2008

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Caitlin Stanley (Southern CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Helping Your Angry Child: A Workbook for You and Your Family (Paperback)

I used this book while creating an anger management curriculum for 7th graders. While some of the book is much more applicable for young children, I used a lot of information for my students successfully, such as discovering from where anger stems. I think this book, full of games, exercises and poems as well as information for parents, is geared perfectly for little ones.