Anger management intervention: To help an adolescent choose positive ways to deal with anger.  This adolescent uses his fists to solve problems.

PURPOSE OF INTERVENTION

This adolescent needs to know that there are people who love him and are working together for his best interest such as: Youth leaders teachers, ministers, caring adults who have a positive relationship with his parent. This will encourage him to trust these people who are trying to help him find alternative ways to handle his propels other than his fists. Youth leaders, or teachers will work with the adolescent, while ministers work with the parents and then they will all come together to discuss the results.

EXACT NATURE OF INTERVENTION

In the event of physical attack, these youth leaders or teachers need to be located immediately. First let those involved know help is here and everything is all right. Then each individual involved will get to share their sides of the situation.  Youth leaders or teachers will help adolescents with ways to avoid getting physical. Those involved need to know that there are repercussions for making bad decision.

PRINCIPLES OF INTERVENTION

When approaching the scene: (1) Youth leaders or teachers must first be calm, and observant. (2) Let everyone know that, we are going work together to resolve this situation. (3) Choose one person who was not directly involved to explain what happen. (4) Those who were involve should than be allowed to explain they side of the situation. (5) Allow them to view their own way of handling this particular situation and the outcome. (6) Help them to find other ways of handling similar situations. (7) Encourage them to find other ways that they can practice, to handling the situation that will have a positive outcome. (8) Make sure parents are aware of the situation.(9) Schedule a time, that the adolescents can share the ways they use to practice to deal with these situations and the outcome with youth leaders teachers and parents.(10) Allow youth leaders, teachers and parents to give feedback, and help the adolescent evaluate these ways and how well they work or how they did not work and what might be done to improve them

PRECAUTIONS

When youth leaders, teachers and parents, do not follow-up with the adolescent to see how things are working out they may lose trust in the group of people who are there to help them.

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS

Work shops for adolescent dealing with anger.

Donna Price, cCYS