California Leads The Nation For Standards For Anger Management Facilitators

Anger Management Services
The following criterion is considered minimum to qualify as an anger management facilitator for court mandated defendants:
1) Has completed forty hours of anger management facilitator training with emphasis in each of the following areas:

•   Adult, parent, child anger management
•   child development, from birth through adolescence
•   family and domestic violence
•   family conflict and anxiety
•   stress management
•   child abuse
  2) Uses a reliable assessment tool that includes a Pre- and Post-Test to measure outcomes
  3) Receives 16 hours of continuing education annually in any of the above areas.
  Any provider offering anger management for clients referred from Family Court must address at least the following core topics during the anger management program:

•   Gaining personal control
•   Stress Management
•   Basic Communication Skills
•   Role Modeling and Positive Parenting Reinforcement
•   Child Abuse and Corporal Punishment
•   Coping with Stress
•   Triggers, Provocation and Alternative Responses
•   Identifying Distorted Thinking
•   Irrational Beliefs
•   Identifying and Expressing Needs
•   Assertiveness vs. Bullying