Anger Management is even worse than Life Coaching in terms of its’ popularity with fraudulent providers. Since there are no laws that regulate the practice of anger management anywhere in the U.S., anyone with a computer, a website and a Cell phone can provide anger management without training, experience, curricula or legitimacy.
Florida and California lead the
nation in on-line anger management providers. These providers offer
Certificates of Completion for $45 with no questions asked. Unsuspecting Judges
lack the time or knowledge to determine the credibility of any of these
providers. Even the NFL was the victim of a fraudulent anger management
provider.
The American Psychological
Association has fought unsuccessfully for many years to have anger defined as
an illness. The Group For The Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) is the
organization responsible for determining the mental and nervous disorders that
are listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Nervous and Mental
Disorders (DSM-5).The 2015 DSM does not list anger as an illness.
The American Psychiatric
Association defines anger as a normal human emotion. Anger is a problem when it
occurs too frequently, is too intense, last too long, impacts health, and
destroys work, school on interpersonal relationships or leads to aggression or
violence.
Many counselors and
psychotherapists nationwide are making fraudulent diagnoses in order to get
Managed Health Care organizations to pay for anger management counseling.
Phony anger management associations are actually encouraging this
practice.
Tips for selecting a legitimate
Anger Management Facilitator:
•
Make sure that the
provider is a Certified Anger Management Facilitator (CAMF).
•
Check with The American
Association of Anger Management Providers regarding the potential facilitator.
www.aaamp.org.
•
Ask for a list of
business, governmental or organizations that are clients of this provider.
•
Make sure that the
provider uses a Pre and Post Assessment as well as client workbooks.
•
Make sure that you are
not the first client of this provider.
•
Contact the courts, HR
Managers or EAP professionals regarding this provider.
•
Google the provider and
add, anger management fraud to your inquiry. Example, George Anderson,
anger management fraud.
•
Contact your local
Business Bureau to see if this person has received complaints.
•
Make sure that the
individual or organization has a business license.
Following the above tips will
reduce the chances of being victimized by fraudulent anger management
providers.
George Anderson, CAMF
Andersonservices.com.
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