Responding Therapeutically to Anger

When a client expresses anger or displeasure toward the therapist it is a challenging and stressful situation, one that requires a direct and skillful response.

A key step in any therapist's education is to develop the ability to face such client emotion calmly and respond compassionately and therapeutically. This video is meant as an aid for this training process.

The six vignettes in this video feature renowned psychotherapists responding to clients' anger in the course of therapy and are intended to stimulate thinking and discussion.

This video may be used either in workshops or by individually to help students or professionals to improve essential skills in therapy.

This video features clients portrayed by actors on the basis of composite cases.

APA Videos

• Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
  Candice M. Monson
• Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy for Clients Dealing With Infidelity
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• Engaging Men in Psychotherapy
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• Forgiveness Therapy in Practice
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• Responding Therapeutically to Patient Anger
• Responding Therapeutically to Patient Expression of Sexual Attraction
• Therapist/Client Boundary Challenges
• The Therapy Relationship
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• Working With Anger
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APA Books

• Road Rage: Assessment and Treatment of the Angry, Aggressive Driver
  Tara E. Galovski, Loretta S. Malta, and Edward B. Blanchard
• Trauma-Informed Treatment and Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence
  Casey T. Taft
• Treating PTSD With Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies: Interventions That Work
  Candice M. Monson