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The Other Side of Anger Naomi Holdt Educational Psychologist and Speaker Aim of this talk Our angry world . Understanding Anger Understanding First What is ANGER? An emotion characterized by antagonism toward someone or something you

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The Other Side of Anger

Naomi Holdt

Educational Psychologist and Speaker

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Aim of this talk

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Our angry world

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Understanding Anger

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Understanding First

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What is ANGER?

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  • An emotion characterized by antagonism toward someone or something

you feel has deliberately done you wrong. (American Psychological Association)

  • Emotional response indicating a person has experienced a perceived

injustice

  • Emotional response produced as a result of the emotional space we are

in and our thinking

  • Normal
  • Common
  • NOT:
  • An action
  • Something we outgrow
  • Automatic reflex
  • Caused by others
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What’s happening in the brain?

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What’s happening in the body?

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Genetics?

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MAOA and CDH13

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Some studies:

  • Child Abuse
  • Intoxicants
  • High levels of Testosterone (fetal and young child)
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Epigenetics

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Why are children so angry?

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The impact of our society

  • Aggression and violence everywhere
  • Role models reinforce
  • Normalizes anger responses
  • Desensitizes children to the horror
  • f violence and increased tolerance develops
  • Children take on a fearful view of the world
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The impact of screens

  • 6-7 hours per day (8-18 years)
  • Gaming impact (FFF activated)
  • Violent games e.g. Grand Theft Auto
  • Todays children are exposed to close up violence- perp stabbed, shot multiple

times

  • One study showed 40% violence committed by ‘good guys’- Interpretation- ‘good

guys’ are violent

  • For every hour TV a 4 year old watches daily, risk becoming a bully increases

between age 6-11 by 6-9%.

  • Girls aged 6-10, watching programmes with aggressive protagonists, are more

likely to turn into angry adults

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Anger from all sides

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The downside of anger

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Misunderstood Emotion

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The upside of Anger

“Anger is a powerful and healthy force in your life. You NEED to feel it”

Ryan Martin

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The upside of anger

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Ryan Martin- Anger researcher

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Triggers

  • Not an event
  • Emotional space we are in
  • THAT is role of therapist, educator, parent- to understand the

emotional space the child is in in order to help them change it

  • When emotions are not reflected and understood= (onion)- leads to

anger

  • In situation- child may not have the skills to accomplish task- so feels
  • insecure. Incompetency is highlighted- Consider primary emotion?
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What happens to unprocessed anger?

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Long term health impact (high cortisol levels)

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The wisdom of Shrek

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The Onion Emotion

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Further considerations

  • Depression
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • ADHD
  • Oppositional Defiance Disorder
  • Sensory Integration Disorders
  • Autism
  • Early-onset Bipolar Mood Disorder
  • Intermittent Explosive Disorder
  • Temporal and Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
  • Reactive Attachment Disorder
  • Learning Disorders
  • Grief
  • Trauma
  • Brain damage injury
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Helping the Family

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Thriving Anger: The perfect recipe

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Most essential tool for helping the family

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Index patient?

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Teaching & Talking about Emotions

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Extending Emotional Vocabulary

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Helping the angry child

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Setting free the forbidden ‘A’ word

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Identifying the angry child

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When is anger a problem?

  • Too frequent
  • Too intense
  • Lasts too long
  • Masks other emotions
  • Disturbs family/ peer relationships
  • Hurts people
  • Harm to animals
  • Self harm
  • Explosive outbursts
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Assessing Anger

  • Drawings and play- consistent theme
  • Behaviour towards others
  • Repeated aggressive actions/outbursts
  • Meltdowns/ tantrums beyond developmental age (7/8 years old)
  • Severity impacts on family
  • Impact on academic/ classroom functioning
  • Isolation from peers?
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Processing Emotions

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Getting to the root- Peeling the layers

Our response to charged emotions should be to assess primary emotion

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Assess the primary emotion first

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The porcupine effect

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Role of Educator

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Role of Educator

  • Recognise
  • Normalise
  • Support parents
  • Role model
  • Be proactive
  • Respond unemotionally
  • Teach problem solving skills
  • Notice the positive
  • Never meet anger with anger
  • Refer for therapeutic assistance if necessary
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Role of the Therapist

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NOT begin with change

  • Begin with understanding
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Mindfulness practices

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CBT: Changing the soil

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Problem solving

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Empathy

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Looking through the glasses

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Retrain the brain

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Gratitude

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Loving through the quills

Breaking the cycle of rejection

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