- Analyze the neurobiology of anger and the brain regions involved in processing anger.
- Investigate behavioral and bodily effects of anger and its influence on cognition.
- Evaluate the clinical implications of the association between anger and substance abuse.
- Analyze how mindfulness techniques can be used to help clinicians engage reluctant and treatmentresistant clients.
- Employ mindfulness training and diaphragmatic breathing techniques that diminish the body’s fight-or-flight response.
- Practice mindfulness skills that effectively intervene in dysfunctional thoughts and judgmental beliefs.
- Investigate the relationship between anger types and problem behaviors in clients.
- Investigate how clinicians can frame anger problems in a humanistic and compassionate manner that leverages client rapport and client insight.
- Employ strategies to help clients leverage acceptance of others to diminish angry externalizations and displacement of frustration.
- Employ mindfulness strategies to decrease levels of impulsivity and aggressiveness in angry clients.
- Investigate the use of Yalom-style process-focused groups to reinforce skill acquisition and responsiveness in the treatment of anger and aggression.
- Investigate how clinicians can navigate politically and ideologically provocative client self-disclosures in therapy.
Improve impulse control and self-regulation in just 4 sessions… absolutely free!
Treating your clients with anger issues can be complicated and draining…
They may not want to be there, reluctantly pushed into sessions by external pressures, offering little engagement or even acceptance that they have a problem.
Harder still, are the intense encounters with clients who respond to treatment aggressively, challenging your expertise and activating your own emotional responses.
It can be tough to know where to even start.
Enter this FREE groundbreaking 2-day certification training, led by Dr. Pavel Somov, a seasoned psychologist and anger management expert. Dr. Somov will give you the mindfulness-based tools and clinical interventions you need to help your clients accept their anger, more fully engage in treatment, and reduce their destructive responses to it!
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2-Day Intensive Anger Management Certification Training:
Mindfulness-Based Tools for Impulse Control, Reduced Emotional Reactivity and Long-Lasting Change
August 25–26
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Pavel Somov, PhD, is a licensed psychologist with over 20 years of clinical experience and the author of Anger Management Jumpstart: A 4-Session Mindfulness Path to Compassion and Change (PESI Publishing, 2013).
Full of practical applications, experiential exercises and detailed instruction, Dr. Somov will show you how you can:- Employ rapid fire techniques for managing anger in the moment
- Build greater engagement and make angry and avoidant clients feel heard
- Improve impulse control and self-regulation with a 4-session approach
- Use group work strategies to reinforce skill acquisition
- Give clients the tools they need to communicate anger without aggression
- Tactfully introduce clinical homework to people who don't want to be told what to do
- And much more!
Best of all, Plus, you'll end this FREE training with the education you need to become a Certified Specialist in Anger Management (CSAM) through Evergreen Certifications!
Don't miss your chance to fundamentally change your approach to working with anger and add to your clinical toolbox!
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Here’s what your peers are saying about this training:
"Very useful and thorough information that feels easy to access and put to practice."
— Caroline R., Behavioral Health
"Dr. Somov, has really answered questions for me that others left unanswered."
— Sonny M., Counselor
"Superb presentation. Learned so much. Thank you."
— Nancy B., Counselor
"Dr. Somov was very engaging--I would take every course he offered if I could!"
— Danielle B., Social Worker
"I was validated in this training on how I was approaching therapy with my inmate population. I now do groups with an acute mental health facility and I received a lot of information I can pass onto the patients. Very grateful!"
— Anita S., Counselor
FREE Live Virtual Event
2-Day Intensive Anger Management Certification Training:
Mindfulness-Based Tools for Impulse Control, Reduced Emotional Reactivity and Long-Lasting Change
August 25–26
from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Central
Can't attend live? Register anyway for
14-day free access to the training!
*CE credit, certification, and certificate of completion are
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Outline
The Brain-Body View of Anger: Enhance Anger Management with a Neuroscience Perspective
- Evolutionary psychology of anger
- Anger systems in the brain and threat perception
- Neurophysiology of anger v. fear
- Limbic, PFC & TPJ
- Fight-Flight-Freeze
- Breathing and the survival brain
- Dualistic & all-or-nothing thinking
- Attention tunneling/hyperfocus
- Perfectionism and righteous anger
- Righteousness as confusion/ambivalence reduction
- Relationship between anger and addiction
- Assessment of violence potential
- Is domestic abuse an anger management problem?
- Anger & self-harm
- Real fears
- Symbolic fears
- Courage of acceptance
- Escape of action (“To act out is to run”)
- An informal typology of anger - how anger style informs treatment approach
- Mood/affect stabilization
- Relational stabilization
- Impulse control
- Damage control
- Session 1: Mindfulness-Based Impulse Control Training
- Session 2: Choice Awareness Training & Pattern Interruption
- Session 3: Symbolic Threat Inoculation
- Session 4: Bottom-Up Self-Regulation
- Facilitating homework compliance
- Real life anger management practice
- Attributional retraining – help clients to not take things personally
- Effort acceptance – exercises to stop feeling shortchanged
- Learning from fear & rascal sages
- Relativity training to overcome righteous anger
- Neurobehavioral empathy training & mirroring to promote relational stability
- Neuroendocrine time-out & social fasting
- Assertiveness training – teach clients to set healthy boundaries
- Techniques to communicate anger without aggression
- Group work - strategies to reinforce skill acquisition
- Eastern know-how of equanimity – from anger to compassion
- Manage politically and ideologically provocative client self-disclosures in therapy
Speaker
Pavel Somov, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in private practice with over 20 years of clinical experience working with anger management, shame, guilt, self-criticism, eating issues, and perfectionism. He has worked in a variety of clinical settings including running a drug and alcohol treatment program in a county jail.
Dr. Somov is on the advisory board for The Mindfulness Project (London, UK) and has conducted a variety of trainings for mental health professionals both domestically and internationally on applying mindfulness-based interventions to a variety of psychological issues.
His work has been discussed in a number of radio interviews and in print publications including Martha Stewart's Body + Soul Magazine and Oprah Winfrey's O Magazine. Dr. Somov is the author of Anger Management Jumpstart: A 4-Session Mindfulness Path to Compassion and Change (PESI Publishing, 2013) as well as a number of self-help books on perfectionism, overeating, and addiction.
Click here for information about Pavel SomovFrequently Asked Questions
YES! The training is LIVE and you'll be able to ask questions of the presenters – though they may not get to all of them, they will try to answer the most relevant and frequent ones.
August 25-26 from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Central
Each day there will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
Each day there will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
Yes!
If you register for the live summit and miss a session, you’ll have access to the recording for 14 days in your portal. Please note you would need to watch the presentations as they are presented live in order to receive live credit. Self-study credit is not available for the archive recordings of the live training sessions.
You can get unlimited access to the recordings + self-study CE hours for only $99.99 when you select the Recording Package add-on during registration.
You can get unlimited access to the recordings + self-study CE hours for only $99.99 when you select the Recording Package add-on during registration.
You’ll have access to the recordings for 14 days in your portal. Please note you would need to watch the presentations as they are presented live in order to receive live credit. Self-study credit is not available for the archive recordings of the live training sessions.
You can get unlimited access to the recordings + self-study CE hours for only $99.99 when you select the Recording Package add-on during registration.
You can get unlimited access to the recordings + self-study CE hours for only $99.99 when you select the Recording Package add-on during registration.
Yes! If you cannot attend any sessions live, you can purchase the recording package to earn self-study CE. Register and select the option to earn up to 12.5 self study CE hours.
Yes, you will have 14 days of archive access to the event recordings, and you’ll have unlimited access to session slides and handouts to add to your clinical toolbox and use with your clients.
Up to 12.5 CE hours, depending on your individual board. We've worked hard to make sure as many licensed mental health professionals as possible are covered by this amazing training program. Register for more information.
Please note: For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.
Please note: For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.
If you choose to upgrade to receive CE credit, simply complete this event and the post-event evaluation included in this training, and your application to be a Certified Specialist in Anger Management (CSAM) through Evergreen Certifications is complete.*
Attendees will receive documentation of CSAM certification from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following the program.
*Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/csam for professional requirements.
Attendees will receive documentation of CSAM certification from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following the program.
*Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/csam for professional requirements.
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FREE Live Virtual Event
2-Day Intensive Anger Management Certification Training:
Mindfulness-Based Tools for Impulse Control, Reduced Emotional Reactivity and Long-Lasting Change
August 25–26
from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Central
Can't attend live? Register anyway for
14-day free access to the training!
*CE credit, certification, and certificate of completion are
available for an additional cost. Register for more information.
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