Counselling for Children & Young People with Difficulties Controlling their Anger

There is growing evidence that links anger to a range of emotional, social and physical problems. Anger has been linked to mental illness and self harm and people tend to describe anger as having a detrimental effect on a relationship.

A report by the Mental Health Foundation (2009) feared that a third of people asked knew someone in the family or a close friend who had problems controlling their anger.

The project aims to work with children and young people between the ages of 5 years - 19 years in order to improve their management of anger and social relationships.

Through working in a school setting we hope to improve the educational attainment for children and young people by dealing with their anger management and keeping them in education.

Children have an untapped resilience to deal with these issues, they need help in identifying their capacity to change. Families/carers can be helped in understanding issues and how better to support children who have difficult expressing themselves without the use of anger.

The project hopes therefore to reduce the episodes of verbal and physical aggression in children/young people through the management of their anger issues.

If you went to speak to someone about this project please ring 01942 867888.