The Addictions Academy announced George Anderson has joined the Faculty and making an appearance in Miami Florida.

Miami, Florida February 17, 2015

The Addictions Academy announced that they are expanding their instructor base and are pleased to welcome George Anderson of Anderson and Anderson Anger Management Services to the team of highly qualified and notorious staff members at The Addictions Academy. George has a strong background in anger management and has been practicing in the field and facilitating workshops and trainings all across the country for years. 

George Anderson has a stellar reputation and he has been featured on NBC, Wall Street Journal and the New York Times for his work in the anger management industry. He has been published in numerous books and publications. George Anderson was the technical consultant on the popular Jack Nicholson/Adam Sandler Movie “Anger Management”.  He will be in Miami Florida at The Addictions Academy to offer his 3 Day Anger Management Facilitator Certification Training in Miami at The Addictions Academy on June 5,6,7 2015.

“The Addictions Academy is pleased and excited to have George Anderson offer his training to our students,” Cali Estes, CEO, said. “George has done so much in the industry to assist others and our students demand only the best teachers. When it comes to anger management, no one is as well-known as George Anderson.”    

George Anderson is a Board Certified Diplomate in Psychotherapy, A Fellow in the American Orthopsychiatric Association and, the first global provider of Anger Management training, workbooks, videos, DVDs and interactive CDs. Mr. Anderson received Post Graduate training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy from the Harvard University School of Medicine and previously taught in the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, Pepperdine University, and Simmons College School of Social Work.

This 3 day training is designed to prepare the participant to offer workshops or presentations regarding anger management, stress management, communication, civility or emotional intelligence. Ample time will be spent on establishing and marketing a practice in anger Management/Emotional Intelligence. The first day of training is Anger Management for Adolescents. The second day of training is Anger Management for Adults and the third day of training is on Organizational Anger Management. Emotional Quotient Intelligence test will be provided to all students.

“Our students have been asking for more in depth knowledge in anger management and we are pleased and excited to have George Anderson coming to our Miami office location to offer his training,” Cali Estes said. “We welcome him to The Addictions Academy”.

The Addictions Academy offers live on site, webinar and prerecorded classes to meet all student’s needs. The Academy specializes in addiction classes and workshops but also offers classes related to assist therapists, doctors, coaches and others in obtaining a higher level of education in a specific discipline. With over 20 classes, ceu’s and the ability to learn online from anyplace in the world, The Addictions Academy delivers. Call today 1.800.706.0318 to schedule your seat. Seating is limited.

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Cali Estes

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Anderson & Anderson Disruptive Physician Executive Coaching Program

General Description:

The Anderson & Anderson Disruptive Physicians / Executive Coaching / Anger Management Program™ is designed to meet the needs of high-level executives, physicians, and those clients who prefer to be seen on an individual basis for specialized coaching and privacy.  The program includes, The Practice of Control, the Anderson & Anderson “disruptive physician” client workbook, along with Gaining Control of Ourselves DVD, and Contrasting Wheels of Behavior – the does and don’ts of self-control.

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Each of our coaching clients will receive an E-mail containing access to the internationally recognized Bar On EQ-I 2.0 Model of Emotional Intelligence.  This is conveniently online 24/7 available to fit your schedule. Our Clients report back that it takes about 13 – 20 minutes to complete. We actually encourage you to “not think” while taking it for most accurate helpful results. So the fast routine is read and answer. Next. Read and answer and so on. You will find it easy.

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Outbursts of anger are often tolerated in our "feeling" society.

Outbursts of anger are often tolerated in our ‘feeling’ society. But we can learn from America

Griff Rhys Jones

Anthony is a bailiff in Los Angeles. A year ago, he explained, he had climbed to the top of a set of stairs, knocked on a door and handed a subpoena to a recently divorced lawyer who had been refusing to pay his wife alimony.

“The guy was not pleased,” he said drily. “I guess he was showing evidence of passive aggression.” The anger management class laughed.

“So as I turned away, I said ‘Enjoy’.” He paused. “Anyway, this man picked me up and threw me down the stairs.” The others nodded. George, leading the session, smiled helpfully.

I glanced around, surprised. These people seemed to be victims rather than perpetrators. Anthony had clearly provoked the situation. But surely it was a harmless crack.

As it happened, the lawyer had been not only violent but litigious. He sued Anthony. Anthony’s legal expenses had risen to more than $30,000. To settle the matter and save his business, he had agreed to take a course of anger management. That was why he was here.

Now I was angry myself, on his behalf, as it were. I imagined that he was, too. But he seemed settled and calm. After two weeks on the course he seemed able to see the amusing side of what had happened and work out how he could have avoided all of it, without rancour.

We are not quite ready in Britain to take the smart-alec remark or aggressive riposte as evidence of behavioural disorder. Things are more advanced in California.

Later at the same meeting, my hackles rose on behalf of a woman who had shouted at a policeman who had stopped her getting her disabled son to a hospital. (She was attending by order of a court too.) I felt a tightening in the chest as I listened to the head teacher who had been ousted by his Parent Teacher Association because of his inappropriate and sarcastic criticism of some his failing staff. (He recognised now that he had not been “helpful”.) These people had been cross. And they had seemed to pay a disproportionate price. Now they were all involuntarily doing time with George Anderson, the anger management guru. The strange thing was that any resentment they might have expected to feel had been eradicated as part of their cure.

George has built a successful practice on the propensity of Californian courts to use anger management as a sentencing tool and was fully aware that one of his first tasks was to overcome this built-in resentment. He often takes in angry people made even angrier by being accused of being angry.

He pointed out to me that I was not just in California, I was in post-9/11 California. As he saw it, an already authoritarian police and bureaucratic system had become considerably more touchy in the past five years. It pounces on any evidence of inappropriate emotional behaviour.

As I saw it, the State seems to be able to act with an infuriating arrogance. I myself have a short fuse. I am judgmental, but I don’t like to be judged. I hate sweeping received ideas and generalisations.

Frankly, I enjoy being angry about matters that enrage me. I like angry people. I find some anger hugely funny. Especially display anger. I prefer an outburst to seething discontent. I relish candour. I was clearly not the ideal person to throw into the new Californian “cool it” environment. I’m manic, impatient, perfectionist, lazy, paranoid, impulsive, nervous and cowardly. I know this because all these defects were swiftly spotted by George. I filled in a lengthy assessment form and he handed me my character on a plate. I was surprised how accurate he was.

I didn’t really need George for the other stuff. For all my bluster I could see that anger is also dangerous, debilitating and addictive. It wastes time. It traumatises those close to me. And though I personally am not the sort of person to attack people, we are in the grip of an unprecedented worldwide plague of violent rage. Thugs who respond to a glance with a stabbing, or brutes who batter children because they “done their heads in”, are all part of a self-justifying indulgence encouraged by our increasingly “feeling” society.

In the States, however, a justifiable fear of this emotional right to rage has now turned into new forms of punishment – punishment that hits the wallet. People can sue for hurt feelings. They can legislate to control inappropriate emotion. They can inflict legal fees as a revenge for cross words.

All this seems to be enough to make you spit. It is crazy as only California can be crazy. I had arrived ready to mock. (Albeit in a calm and measured way.) Except that when I met Anthony and the rest of the clever and articulate people at the session I realised that they recognised the absurdity of all this themselves.

George Anderson’s “treatment” may be couched in Californian psychoanalytic jargon but it is not an amateur thrust in the dark. (Too many of the “cures” I met in England were.) I don’t think Anthony the bailiff had been brainwashed. The system was too rational for that. It simply offered a means to change habits and alter behaviour.

In the middle of all this Californian madness I was forced to admit that anger management seemed an eminently sane solution. I might even try it myself one day.

Times Online UK
Griff Rhys Jones

The Original Article from Times Online can be accessed by clicking here.

George Anderson, The Anger Management Guru

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The Disappearance of “going postal” Proves That Anger Management Can Work

The popular phrase “going postal” did not go away on it’s own, Los Angeles based Anderson & Anderson, APC played a major roll in significantly reducing person directed violence in the U.S. Postal Services nationwide. Anderson & Anderson, APC is the largest provider of anger management services in the world. Postal Service signs contract with Anger Management Firm (2/29/04)

http://www.postalreporter.com/usps/gopostal.htm

 “Workplace violence has reached epidemic proportions, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, with an average of three or four supervisors killed each month in the United States.

The term "going postal" came into our vocabulary on August 20, 1986, at a post office in Edmond, Oklahoma, when employee Patrick Henry Sherrill, known as "Crazy Pat" to some who knew him, shot two of his supervisors then continued his rampage killing a total of 14 co-workers and injuring seven others.

Ultimately he turned the gun on himself and committed suicide. After this incident, there seemed to be a rash of work-related violence in post offices, hence the term, "going postal."

What motivated Sherrill's action? He believed he was about to lose his job, investigators found. Experts believe the availability of firearms (75 percent of these incidents involve guns) combined with work-related stress, smaller workforce, decreasing wages and the loss of job security are the main contributors to the violence.”

http://crime.about.com/od/issues/a/aa040717.htm

Brief Summary Of How The Anderson & Anderson, APC Anger Management Model was introduced to the U.S. Postal Services in 2004.

Dr. Greg Weisman and George Anderson did a survey of U.S. Postal employees in one unit in Los Angeles that contained 11,000 employees.

Organizational Survey Results:

·      The U.S. Postal Service has been a major employer of military veterans.

·      Many veterans suffer from PTSD.

·      Substance Abuse is common among the 820,000 U.S. Postal Employees.

·      A large number of postal employees suffer from depression that in unrecognized and untreated.

·      Most postal jobs are extremely stressful.

Elements of The Anger Management Program:

·      All managers and supervisors in the unit mentioned above received two weeks of training in simple techniques for recognizing depression, anxiety, substance abuse, stress and poor impulse control.

·      Persons in leadership positions were taught how to appropriately refer employees suspected of needing help in any of these areas to the Employee Assistance Program.

·      Counselors in the EAP were trained and certified in the Anderson & Anderson, APC Anger Model Curriculum.

·      The Anger Management Program was for 10 sessions. It was offered during the employees working hours and was free to all employees.

·      Selected employees were offered an opportunity to take the Anger Management Course but could decline.

·      If the employee’s behavior did not improve, participating in the 10-week course was made mandatory as a condition of continued employment at the U.S. Postal Service.

·      Program participants were assigned a client workbook along with assignments in self-awareness, self-control, social awareness and relationship management along with stress management, communication and impulse control.

Results of the one- year pilot program:

·      The Postal Service reported a savings on 1.7 million dollars for this one unit.

·      There was a reduction of sick-day usage, reduced absenteeism, reduction in accidents, increase in morale and a dramatic reduction of aggressive behavior.

In 2005, The Anderson & Anderson, APC Anger Management Model was implemented in the U.S. Postal Service system wide.

George Andersron, the Anger Management Guru

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