Anger Management for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Clients

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Course Description: Anger, violence, and associated traumatic stress can often correlate with the initiation of drug and alcohol use and can be a consequence of substance use.

The anger management treatment design presented in this course was developed to provide clinicians with tools to help clients who have substance use and mental health problems learn to deal with their co-occurring anger management problems. The group treatment model described in this course has been delivered to thousands of clients over the past three decades and has been popular with both clinicians and clients.

The course has two parts. Part 1 is the Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy Manual. It describes a 12-week cognitive–behavioral anger management group treatment model. Each of the 12, 90-minute weekly sessions is described in detail with specific instructions for group leaders, tables and exhibits that illustrate the key conceptual components of the treatment, and between-session challenges for group members. The format of the manual lends itself to use in a variety of clinical settings and can be adapted to accommodate different racial-ethnic minority groups and genders and diverse treatment settings.

Part 2 is the Participant Workbook. The workbook is designed to be used in conjunction with Part 1 to enable group members to better learn, practice, and integrate the treatment strategies presented in the manual.

The material in this course may be used by clinicians who work with clients who have substance use and mental health problems co-occurring with anger management problems and has also been used by individuals for self-paced study outside of a group counseling setting (e.g., by individuals who are incarcerated).

Learning Objectives:

• Analyze the purpose, overview, group rules, conceptual framework, and rationale for the anger management treatment based on a group cognitive–behavioral approach for clients who have substance use and mental health problems co-occurring with anger management problems
• Describe how to teach group members to analyze an anger episode and to identify the events and cues that indicate an escalation of anger
• Describe how to teach group members cognitive behavioral strategies for controlling their anger
• Summarize the aggression cycle and the A-B-C-D model
• Apply the participant workbook to the anger management approach for clients who have substance use and mental health problems co-occurring with anger management problems

Course Components:

• Online text (included)
• Multiple choice online exam (included)
• Electronic certificate of completion (free)

Course Reference(s): 

Reilly, P.M., & Shopshire, M.S. (2019). Anger management for substance use disorder and mental health clients: A cognitive-behavioral therapy manual. SAMHSA Publication No. PEP19-02-01-001. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Reilly, P.M., Shopshire, M.S., Durazzo, T.C., & Campbell, T.A. (2019). Anger management for substance use disorder and mental health clients: Participant workbook. SAMHSA Publication No. PEP19-02-01-002. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Course Credit(s): 4 CE Credits or Hours

Course Format: Online Text (format of this course is noninteractive)

Course Schedule: Self-paced

Course Author(s): Patrick M. Reilly, PhD, and Michael S. Shopshire, PhD

Content Publisher(s): Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Course Author(s) Qualifications:

Dr. Reilly earned a PhD in Counseling Psychology at Stanford University in 1989. He is Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology at University of California, San Francisco. He was previously the Director, Mental Health, Santa Rosa VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic.

Dr. Shopshire is quality assurance and regulatory affairs coordinator for the California-Arizona (CA-AZ) Node of the NIDA Clinical Trials Network at the University of California, San Francisco.

Course Level: Beginning/Introductory, Intermediate, Advanced

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