What is Anger?

Series Summary

Whether you are someone who gets angry every once in a while or someone who loses their temper on a dime, almost everyone could improve on the way they manage their anger. Anger can destroy relationships, families, marriages, and jobs and should be taken as a serious problem that needs immediate attention. Fortunately there are a lot of counseling options for you to consider to get help and get past anger problems and the experts at ExpertVillage want to help.

In this free video series, watch as Brenda F. Dixon teaches you how to overcome anger and deal with angry people. Learn what anger is and where it comes from, the different types and manifestations of anger, how to deal with hot-tempered individuals, how to end and resolve conflict, and how to prevent angry episodes or outbursts at the work place and at home. Don't let anger rule your life, get help today with these step by step counseling video clips.

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Brenda F. Dixon a licensed clinical social worker here with Expert Village and we are going to talk about how to overcome anger. I'm going to give you the definition of anger before we start so we would know what we are talking about. The root word meaning in anger is to constriction, straggling, fear, tightness. It also means it is a feeling of displeasure that someone has and they actually feel like they want to fight the person when the anger starts to well up inside of them. It also a inflammation of a wound, it's pain or trouble. All of these things are in companied around of the definition of anger. A person would have anger and it will play in parts of their body. So we are going to start talking a little about how to overcome this anger and we would do this the next time we are together. "