An Anger Management Specialist is a health care professional, with specialized certification to treat clients struggling with chronic anger and aggression. The principal goal of these professionals is to bring about positive changes in behavior. They work with clients to identify what causes their anger or other emotions, how they react physiologically and psychologically and what they can do instead of fighting and staying angry. AIHCP’s program helps behavioral health care professionals and those in ministry better able to help others properly cope with the emotion of anger and better channel it in positive ways.
Anger Management Specialists utilize a variety of assessment and diagnostic tools to help understand clients. They help not only counsel, but teach clients about the anger cycle, the nature of triggers, escalation, de-escalation and emotional regulation. In addition, they utilize a variety of therapies and skills within their scope of individual professional practice such as stress management and other behavioral modification modalities.
Many licensed counselors and social workers receive additional certifications, such as Anger Management, to enhance their resume and skill set. In addition to licensed behavioral health professionals, the certification is also open to non-clinical professionals in pastoral ministries.
Main Duties and Practice an Anger Management Specialist
An Anger Management Specialist has many functions, all of which require a blend comprising firm professional boundaries, clinical knowledge and empathy.
- Teaching clients about the anger cycle
- Training skills for emotional regulation
- Helps individuals with past issues of violence, domestic abuse, and violent crime with ways to rehabilitate and properly process anger
- Working with individual clients
- Couple and Family therapies
- Corporate training for anger in the workplace
- Conducting educational anger group workshops
- Assisting the state and judicial branch with court ordered Anger Management Programs
- Guiding prison inmates with anger management and emotional regulation tools
Where do Anger Management Specialists practice?
Within the scope of practice of their licensure or within the scope of ministry
- Individual practice for licensed counselors
- Group workshops
- Corporate settings and training
- Judicial system with Anger workshops
- Prisons
- Ministry and Church
Certification Programs
A certification in Anger Management Practitioner by organizations like the American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc. (AIHCP), can serve as a means of verification and validity for the skilled professional. This certification documents that the specialist has reached an advanced level of knowledge in this sub-specialty. For those Certified as an Anger Management Specialist, this can be a real passport to greater marketability. It means that the provider is seen as having expertise in this professional practice and one may have more confidence in working with them. This applies not only to potential clients, but to potential employers and also such referral sources as courts or corporate human resources departments for instance.
Are you interested in becoming a Certified Case Manager? If this practice specialty interests you then please review our program and feel free to speak with our advisors regarding our complete education program and courses leading to qualifications to achieve the certification/Fellowship.