Starving the Anger Gremlin for Children Aged 5-9: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Anger Management

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Aug 21, 2014 - Psychology - 176 pages

Help children to understand and manage their anger with this fun and imaginative workbook.

The Anger Gremlin is a naughty creature and his favourite food is your anger! The more anger you feed him, the bigger and bigger he gets and the angrier and angrier you feel! How can you stop this? Starve the Anger Gremlin of angry thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and watch him disappear!

Based on cognitive behavioural principles, this workbook uses fun and engaging activities to teach children how to manage their anger by changing how they think and act – getting rid of their Anger Gremlins for good! Packed full of stories, puzzles, quizzes, and colouring, drawing and writing games, this is an excellent resource for parents or practitioners to use with children aged 5 to 9 years.

 

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Contents

Acknowledgements
7
About the Author
8
1 Why Read This Book?
9
2 Lets Meet a Mystery Creature
17
3 Lets Learn about Feelings
27
4 What Is Anger?
39
5 Things We Get Angry About
55
6 Why We Get Angry
67
8 Our Angry Behaviours
89
9 The Effects Anger Can Have
97
10 Starving the Anger Gremlin Strategies
111
11 Your Anger Dos and Donts
137
12 Completing Your Mission to Starve the Anger Gremlin
143
Activity Puzzle and Quiz Answers
156
Information for Parents and Professionals
170
References
173

7 Our Angry Bodies
81
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About the author (2014)

Kate Collins-Donnelly has worked as a therapist, psychologist, criminologist and anger management consultant based in the UK for many years. She presently runs a successful independent consultancy practice which provides cognitive behavioural therapy, counselling, coaching and training, and is head of the Psychological and Criminological Research Division. She is the author of several books for children and young people published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, including Banish Your Body Image Thief, Banish Your Self-Esteem Thief and a range of titles in her Starving the Gremlin series.

Bibliographic information

TitleStarving the Anger Gremlin for Children Aged 5-9: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Anger Management
Gremlin and Thief CBT Workbooks
AuthorKate Collins-Donnelly
PublisherJessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014
ISBN0857008854, 9780857008855
Length176 pages
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Education / Counseling / General
Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General
Psychology / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent
Self-Help / General
Social Science / Social Work
  
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