To identify anger triggers and to consider triggers of an opposite feeling.

To increase anger management skills by observing, recording, and evaluating key events surrounding anger situations.

To understand that students have their choice of thoughts associated with anger, and to consider alternate feelings and actions. To understand that students can control their angry feelings by considering alternate thoughts.

To learn that anger is a normal response to a frustrating situation and to identify ways anger is felt in the body.

To create an original play about coping with anger using personal experiences as a reference.

Students examine scenarios that can sometimes cause them to become angry and then identify their own personal anger triggers.

To visually depict that anger varies in intensity and that anger-provoking situations vary in importance.

To describe the animal-assisted therapy model where pets serve as reinforcers, socializing catalysts, and agents of social support. To describe the benefits of animal-assisted therapy.

To use a systematic tool for recording and assessing antecedents leading up to problem behavior, the problem behavior, and then the consequences. To analyze upward and downward patterns of problem behavior. To use assessment tool as a jumping off point for discussions with client.