Anger Problems in Children and Adolescents
Anger management in Children and Adolescents: Parents often struggle with how best to help their child / adolescent learn to manage their anger before it manages them. Some children express their anger through physical contact, or verbal outbursts, or quiet brooding, others internalize it and direct the anger inward, often becoming depressed. No one magic style of parenting intervention works for all children and adolescents. Children are individuals, and as a result, will respond differently to the same parenting techniques.
The expression of anger is often a child’s or adolescent’s way of coping with a situation that feels out of their control: parental divorce, coping with step-parents and step-siblings, struggling academically or socially in school, or perhaps a death of a loved one.
As parents, or concerned family members, our job is to help a child develop the tools in life that they will need to become productive members of society. In other words, learn to channel their energy in positive ways.
The preferred method of teaching young children (3-9) how to manage their anger is through play therapy, The focus is on the child. After each session, the therapist will include the parents by providing them with concrete techniques that their child might respond to. Adolescents are able to benefit from more traditional talking styles of therapy. Anger often hurts adolescents self esteem.
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