Anger Management Skills and System-Involved Youth

Nicole Klasey, Psy.D. 

Training Description

Many system-involved youth struggle to regulate their emotions, particularly anger. Youth often acknowledge their need for anger management skills so it’s crucial for social service providers, foster parents, and natural supports to learn how to help system-involved youth navigate their anger. This workshop will provide you with strategies for talking with system involved youth about anger management and how to support them.

Learning Objectives

·  Participants will be able to identify at least one way anger can be externalized.

·  Participants will be able to identify at least one way system involved youth internalize anger.

· Participants will be able to identify at least one strategy to help system involved youth regulate their anger.

Agenda 

9:00am-9:15am  Introductions

9:15am-10:45am  Anger management overview

                                    · Physiological impact of anger

                                    · Externalizing and internalizing anger

                                    · Goals of anger management

                                    · Suppressing anger

10:45am-11:00am  Break (CEs will not be offered for this time)

11:00am-12:45pm  Anger management strategies

                                      · Expressing anger

                                      · Assertive communication

                                      · Calming anger

                                      · Vignettes

12:45pm-1:00pm  Closing and Wrap-up

Meet Our Trainers

Nicole Klasey is a clinical psychologist who has worked with trauma survivors for 14 years. She currently consults with agencies on trauma-informed care, programming for commercially sexually exploited youth, vicarious trauma, and leadership development. Nicole has been training multidisciplinary audiences on trauma-related topics since 2015 and provides guest lectures at local universities on human trafficking.

This course meets the qualifications for (3.75) BBS CE Hours for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.