The Pathways to Peace Anger Management Workbook

This anger workbook is unique. It is the official guide for Pathways to Peace, a program which provides self-help anger management and violence prevention instruction for individuals and communities. Anger is a drug which often turns into a full-blown addiction. This pattern of anger abuse is reinforced socially. People learn to abuse anger from the examples of parents, peers, the media. The book helps people to un-learn these destructive patterns. It shows chronically angry people how to replace their anger habit with peaceful alternatives and respond to their anger triggers in non-violent ways. This workbook will help the reader:

--Discover how he learned his or her anger pattern

--Find new, nonviolent ways to experience personal power

--Learn to change abusive and violent behaviors

--Focus on values and goals that support a nonviolent rage-free lifestyle

--Identify and change negative attitudes and beliefs that keep a person stuck

--Avoid relapsing back into angry behavior

--Maintain recovery from chronic anger and rage The workbook is easy to understand. Each of the eighteen chapters includes personal stories and questions for the reader.