an eight-session anger management pull-out program
Pearson, Kathryn
2002
Describes a step-by-step behavioral approach to teaching anger management strategies to small groups of young children in school settings, based on a program of helping them identify and express their feelings in a way that keeps them out of trouble.
Sophie, not knowing what to do with her anger, goes outside where she runs, cries, and climbs her favorite tree--and then, calmed by the breeze, she is ready to go back home.
Explains that everybody gets angry, what appropriate behavior means, some specific techniques for dealing with angry feelings, and the importance of communication in helping to avoid misunderstanding.
A seachild helps an octopus gain control over his emotions after he wakes to find his seashell rock garden in disarray and completely loses his temper.