This program is a twenty six week commitment designed to build skills and gain insights into the emotional, physical, cognitive and behavioral aspects of anger and its escalation that is specific to the needs of our community’s adolescent populations. This program has as a special sensitivity to gang involvement behaviors as well and gang prevention and intervention.  Anger Management enhances home and social safety, as well as increases self-awareness and promotes life productivity.

Applied Behavioral Science’s Anger Management and Stabilization program helps clients stabilize their emotions, reducing both the emotional feeling of anger and the corresponding physical reactions.  Once intermittent explosive behaviors are understood and controlled clients can self assess the causality behind their angry feelings. This leads to becoming better adjusted and capable of expressing angry feelings in a calm, assertive way, wile being respectful of others and engaging in appropriate and useful communication.

Today’s teens face even greater pressures than those of the past. By age eighteen, most have witnessed thousands of murders on television and video games. Some are involved in violent or illegal gang activity. Others come from broken homes where domestic violence and substance abuse are the norm. By the time they start going through puberty, their entire existence may seem out of their control, and they may grow increasingly enraged, acting out their anger in antisocial ways that require adolescent anger management.

Sadly, many teens experience frustrations that drive them to vent anger toward people or things, breaking civil laws. This type of behavior often leads to incarceration or at the very least, intervention by parents, teachers, law enforcement officials, and juvenile experts who attempt to train children how to respond in age-appropriate ways. At ABS Adolescent anger management program we teach kids individually or in peer groups how to identify negative feelings, work through them in the right kind of ways, seek help when needed, and practice more mature behaviors.