Anger Busting 101: The New ABCs for Angry Men and the Women Who Love Them [Paperback]

Both of these titles address the destructive potential of men's anger and present step-by-step methods to effect positive behavioral changes. In Dealing with Your Anger (first published in Australia but edited for an American audience), Donovan, a psychotherapist and director of the Anger Clinic in Melbourne, offers a self-help resource that is also designed for practitioners in one-on-one or group therapy sessions. Using his many years of clinical experience with angry men and his own personal struggle with anger and a potential for violence, Donovan shares sensible procedures for understanding, reducing, and eliminating anger. He covers anger's definition, anger sources, emotional strategies for healing anger, practical ways of controlling anger, and positive uses for anger. Also included are Assistive Guidelines for Practitioners and an extensive notes section. Hightower, a licensed psychotherapist and director of the Center for Anger Resolution, Inc., in Houston, presents a highly practical and easy-to-follow guide for managing anger problems. Anger Busting 101 uses the author's Recovery Approach, which gives pointers for diffusing anger before it gets to the boiling point. This method debunks the psychological myth that stifling anger will hurt you. Hightower combines his personal experience, his clients' personal stories, and scientific research to support his methods for handling anger. His ABCs are Abstain from certain behavior and phrases; Believe in the principles for peace, happiness, and permanent change; and Communicate with new phrases. Donovan's guide is more complicated to follow without a therapist's guidance, while Hightower's is more straightforward and simpler to use on one's own. Both are well documented and are recommended for self-help collections in academic and large public libraries and for mental health practitioners. Elizabeth Goeters, Georgia Perimeter Coll., Dunwoody
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"...a highly practical and easy-to-follow guide for managing anger problems....Recommended." -- Library Journal, January 2002

"Anger Busting 101 is likely to become The Big Book for anger addicts." -- Blair Justice, Ph.D. and Rita Justice, Ph.D., Psychologists and authors of The Abusing Family

"This book can be a real gift to men struggling to overcome the tyranny of anger in their lives." -- Sam J. Buser, Ph.D., President, Texas Psychological Association

Anger Busting 101 is the first book to use the acclaimed Recovery approach to solve anger problems. It gives you dozens of quick tips you can use every day to diffuse anger early on. Author Newton Hightower expertly combines personal stories with scientific research and solid clinical data to give angry men and their families the hope and the help they need.

Newton Hightower is Founder and Director of the Center for Anger Resolution, Inc., in Houston, Texas. A licensed psychotherapist with more than 25 years of counseling experience, Hightower is a frequent speaker at national and regional professional organizations. He was a keynote speaker at the First National Conference on Alcohol & Drugs as Factors in Violence, which aired on C-SPAN, and is a popular guest on radio and TV. He is the former director of the Baylor Family Medicine Counseling Clinic and former president of the Houston Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He is also a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and has served on the board of the Houston Group Psychotherapy Association for more than a decade.