NCJ Number
150931
Date Published
1994
Length
7 pages
Annotation
This article examines the underlying causes of anger, how best to handle personal anger, and how educators should interact with a student who is experiencing anger.
Abstract
The fear/anger response was originally designed to protect our survival. Such threats include threats to our pride, status, position, personhood, or dignity. Anger can stem from disapproval, betrayal, deprivation, exploitation, frustration, and humiliation. Anger is most frequent and intense in children who have not received parental love, nurturing, security, and guidance in the management of frustration. Children should not repress their anger but learn how to channel and manage it through counseling and appropriate guidance. Punishment for feeling anger only intensifies it. Every school should have a rage room, where angry children can be sent to batter plastic objects and pillows. Angry students should be sent, not to the office for fighting, but to someone in the school who will listen, validate feelings, and help the child to develop strategies for understanding and managing anger. 7 references