Shopping Basket 0 Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc.    Developing
anger management programs for athletes  By Mitch Abrams, PsyD
The culmination of the previous chapters leads us to the “How
To” of anger management. As should be clear by now, getting
angry in and of itself, is not a problem. It is the high levels
of anger that lead to reactive aggression. The program that is
outlined below provides guidelines on how to recognize one’s
emotion levels and control them. This is done by becoming aware
of one’s body, how it changes when one is very angry, and
different methods to both calm down when very angry as well as
ways to avoid getting so angry in the first place. These
techniques are truly cognitive and behavioral skills.
Prescreening for Anger Management Participation  Certain groups
of people should be evaluated before they are enrolled in an
anger management program. When I say evaluated, I do not mean
unilaterally ruled out, but prescreened. Certain kinds of people
are more likely to benefit than others