The aims of the course:
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The course aims to provide you with a good understanding of the causes and maintaining factors for irritability and anger, and the necessary range of CBT techniques to produce an effective intervention.
The course covers:
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A clear theoretical model: the interplay between the "primitive brain" (the limbic system and cerebellum) and the "rational brain" (the cerebrum). This is a model which "hits the nail on the head" for many people who regularly experience anger and irritability. They can readily imagine the neurological processes described, happening inside their own heads.
Case examples. Examples range from the relatively trivial (irritation at someone leaving a door open near a draught) to the tragic (a man getting so angry with his wife that he murders her in a fit of rage). This means that you are able to identify with a number of the examples.
It is against the background of having a clear theoretical model and a number of case examples that the techniques are described. The interventions are explicitly based on cognitive behavioural therapy and, therefore, in line with modern CBT will be grouped under the following headings:
Cognitive. For example "attribution of intent". This is where, when you find that something that somebody does is irritating, you "attribute intent" to that person. In other words, you think they are doing it deliberately to annoy you. Or, in a slightly milder version, simply not caring whether it annoys you or not. Most of the major interventions on this course are cognitive ones.
Behavioural. The simple expedient of counting to ten, mentioned above, is a good example of a behavioural intervention. There are much bigger and better behavioural interventions also; ones which aim at producing a fundamentally less irritable person (rather than a simple expedient to deal with irritability when it occurs).
Environmental. Some environments invite displays of anger. For example, someone who frequently got into fights in his local (rough) bar attempted to remedy this by frequenting a bar that was 5 miles away and had a much more relaxed atmosphere. Most situations that cause irritability or anger have an environmental option as one possible solution.
Social. For example refraining from mixing with people who encourage you to display your anger (get into fights) or, at a lower level, avoiding people who irritate you. (It is not always the case that the irritated person is "irritable", sometimes the other person really is "irritating").
Emotions. Emotions such as depression make one more likely to be irritable, and therefore need to be tackled head on. Relaxed and happy people tend not to be irritable.
Cost:
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£130 plus VAT
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