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MWSE provides treatment for men and women (voluntarily
or court ordered) who are seeking domestic violence and/or anger management
counseling. MWSE's plan is to help the client eliminate physical, verbal, and
emotional abuse. We will focus on identification and awareness of the
problem; taking responsibility for the abuse; enhancing self esteem; building
anger management, conflict resolution, communication, stress-management
skills; and remaining chemically free. Specific group sessions discuss family of
origin, addictions, sexuality, irrational beliefs, gender stereotypes,
parenting, and more. Clients are seen weekly for individual or group
sessions. Colorado mandates anyone who was
convicted after September 1st 2010 to be evaluated per the DVOMB
standards and be placed in one of the following levels; Level A, Level B or
Level C. The Probation Officer must
agree with the level of treatment; you can attend groups following the
intake/evaluation process. All clients
must bring a current CBI arrest record to the evaluation process. For more information on accessing your
criminal history via CBI, please contact our office.
* Please ask us about
reduced-cost services for indigent and low-income clients. ** Due to Services are available on a voluntary basis as well as for
clients on bond. Anger Management
is offered for clients on Parole. |
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Anger
Management If you are unaware of being angry does not mean you
are not angry. Unrecognized anger, passive
anger, can do the
most damage to you and to your relationships with
other people, as the expression of anger may not be a conscious choice and can become aggressive expression of anger. Choices are what this
program can give you. Freud once
compared anger to the smoke in an old fashioned
wood burning stove. The normal avenue for discharge of the smoke is up the flue and out
the chimney; if the normal avenue is blocked the smoke will leak out of the
stove in unintended ways ... around the door, through the grate, etc, choking
everyone in the room. If ALL avenues of escape are blocked, the fire
goes out and the stove ceases to function. Understand how to use anger can
enhance your ability to learn about you and your
environment rather than the emotion controlling
your life. You will learn the fine line which separates the constructive and the destructive phase of anger.
Anger management is locating this line. Some factors involved in the
developed of the destructive phase of anger is the
perception of displeasure followed by the idea of threat. The idea of
threat signals the brain. The amygdala sends out signals, body muscles
become tense, neurotransmitters and hormones are released in the brain that
quickly lead to a state of arousal. Amygdala of the brain being responsible for perception of threats and
dangers, hypothalamus of the brain responsible for perception of pain or
irritation are activated during anger.
Without recognition of the process and skills to intervene we react without the mediation of the cortical or reasoning
part of the brain. Strong emotions like anger can be as 'blind' as strong
emotions of love as both of these represent a state of arousal when our
brains are not in a normal chemical or physiological condition, so to speak. Social
expression of anger we learn payoffs
and consequences. Learning
about the aggression cycle, intergenerational influences,
cognitive distortions and addiction to anger will assist in understanding the development of
anger. Learning what we think creates
feelings through the A,B,C,D model. Understanding and
reframing a lifetime accumulation of buried
resentments is a major task which is one of the
goals of this program. Whether such a
process is necessary for you should be decided in consultation with a qualified professional at our agency. Our immediate
concern is to provide you with some techniques
which will help you understand conflict resolution skills. A cognitive behavioral
approach will identify the process
of managing challenging feelings that can be understood by
examining the following. RECOGNITION OF THE FEELING Everyone
has their own bodily signals by understanding
the aggression cycle and exploring events and cues of experienced anger. OWNERSHIP OF THE FEELING-ACKNOWLEDGING The
anger is yours.
The other person may have said or done something that punched your anger
button, but the button is yours and so are the feelings it triggers. Managing anger
with anger control
plans, cognitive restructuring and reinforced learned concepts.
EXPERIENCING AND
EXPERESSING THE FEELING First
and foremost DON'T HIDE IT. Anger demands expression. If
you have recognized what anger meant to you, understood that it is your feeling,
then you will have a choice of when, where and
how you may express it. This can be accomplished with the previous skills along with understanding anger and the family
and developing conflict
resolution skills. We look
forward to working with you. |
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