Anderson & Anderson Announces Licensing Program

Licensing agreements: Join one of the Fastest-Growing Niche Markets Currently Available

* Be your own boss
* Be a part of a growing cottage industry
* Become an Anderson & Anderson anger management licensee

Anger management is the fastest growing niche market in human resource management, mental health, social services, and substance abuse intervention. Businesses and industries worldwide are beginning to recognize that anger management intervention is a cost-saving intervention. Anderson & Anderson is the first global provider of anger management provider certification, licensing agreements, books, CDs, DVDs, posters, and executive coach training.

The goal of the Anderson & Anderson Licensing Program is to make an unprecedented business opportunity available to qualified Human Resource Training Companies, Mental Health Professionals, Executive Coaches and Educators. As an Anderson & Anderson Anger Management Licensee, you can take a leadership role in providing anger management facilitator certification, executive coaching, and distributing a wide range of training material to providers in your territory.

Benefits
* International network
* Instant internet presence
* Constant internet marketing
* Multiple streams of income: books, CDs, DVDs, Posters, Home Study Training kits, consultation, executive coaching, classes for adults and adolescents
* Modest initial investment and low royalties





What does the Licensing Program offer?
· Proven Model
· Integrated System of Operation
· Exclusive Territory for Operation
· Use of our Registered Name
· Operations Manual
· Training Program
· Marketing & Networking Program
· Guidance & Support
· Potential Business Contacts
· National Exposure

Recommendations for Corporate Anger Management Consultation

Businesses of all sizes are increasingly requesting on-site anger management consultation. Often, they are looking to improve in the areas of stress management, anger management, assertive communication, or emotional intelligence. Frequently, a two or four-hour introductory anger management class will result in a dramatic increase in referrals from the host organization. Some of these referrals will be for executive coach clients as well as line staff for groups. The introductory consultation will open the door for discussions regarding the providing of quarterly trainings.

If the organization’s request is for four hours consider the following:

Limit the number of participants to 25.

Include copies of Tips for Managing Anger and Gaining Control of Ourselves for each participant.

Administer the Conover assessment in a group format with feedback

Provide a brief overview on anger management, stress management, communication and emotional intelligence

If the training request is for 8 hours, simply increase the amount of time spent on the four main topics: anger, stress, communication and emotional intelligence.

Each of these topics can be a separate training in itself.

If the request is for emotional intelligence, it is often useful to administer the E.Q. Map, which is used in Executive Coaching. Give feedback using the group format.

Give training/lecture on emotional intelligence for whatever length of time is requested.

If you are asked to present on stress or stress management, print out the long version of the stress management post-test from the Conover Assessment and have it filled out by each participant. Do not give feed back at this time.

Present your lecture for whatever length of time is requested and give the same Post-test at the end of your presentation.

Hand outs, other than those mentioned above should be avoided as they tend to travialize your presentation. In contrast, the books provide legitimacy to your presentation and leave the participants with self-help information they can consult at any time after being introduced to anger management.

The cost of the materials should be included in your overall fee, which should be from $2500 per day plus expenses and travel up to $4500. The minimum should be for four hours or one half day.

George Anderson, MSW, LCSW, BCD, CAMF
Fellow, American Orthopsychiatric Association
Diplomate, American Association of Anger Management Providers

Offering the Quick Fix

By Sonia Brill, LCSW, CAMF

Anger can be one of the most frightening and complicated emotions people can experience. Destructive anger can land people in jail. If you have an anger problem, who would you seek if you were facing potential jail time for an anger-related act: an expert in the field who has at least 40 hours of anger management training, or an individual who is still under supervision with 8 to 16 hours of training? Additionally, if the facilitator with the fewer hours of training offered classes for a shorter duration, say 4 to 5 meetings, than the more “skilled” trainer, who would you seek out now?

Your answer might be dependent on your conditioned ideal of getting the “quick fix.” We live in a society in which we want what we want, and we want it now. If we have a headache, the fix is a pill. Never mind what might be causing the headache. If you have been to the supermarket lately, you may have seen entire meals in a box. No reason to cook for the family anymore. No time to get out of the car and pick up dinner? Then the fix is a “to go” spot at the restaurant. The restaurant employee brings the meal to the car. Now we don’t need to spend the entire evening in the restaurant. We are conditioned to reach for the easy way out. We know that in some cases, taking the easy way could be a blessing.

In the case of anger management, however, the quick fix can lead to quick disasters. In most states, there is no or few regulations/legislation mandating the teaching of anger management. In other words, the consumer can go to any class and present a certificate to the judge, with a completion of course work. However, like most things, each program is different, as is each provider. Anyone can set up a program. Some providers now have as few as 8 to 16 hours of training. Ask yourself: If you are seeking a professional in an alternative field, say for depression, would you see someone with such skimpy credentials?

For most psychotherapeutic practitioners, it takes a minimum of 6 years to complete a professional program and years of practice to legitimately call themselves an expert in that field. Most professionals are also required to complete CEUs, or continuing education, to keep abreast of new information and techniques for treating their clients. In many states, however, individuals can set up “shop” without a license to practice. Similarly, consumers can take classes of anger management from an untrained or minimally trained provider who offers fewer classes.

One has to consider the agenda of this type of practice. People with problems of anger have a difficult time delaying their gratification and need to release frustration quickly. Often, they have problems identifying consequences, or consequences can be identified, but they have problems actualizing them until they are there. A quick fix now, through fewer classes by a less-trained provider, insidiously meets the immediate needs of the person who has the anger problem. It’s done. The client feels she or he has met some requirement. No one really knows what requirement has been met. Nor can it be determined if the treatment received was worthwhile. All that’s known is that it is done. In the long run, the consumer misses out; the problem is still there.

To become an expert in any field requires extensive training, development of a knowledge base, and a sound practice based on fundamental ethics. People who suffer from anger problems often face losing their relationships, jobs, and, ultimately, themselves.

As a trained anger management facilitator and clinician in private practice, I think we need to be mindful of vulnerabilities faced by those clients we are serving and anchor ourselves in the values of why we went into the helping profession in the first place.

Sonia Brill, LCSW, CAMF, owner of Anger X change, located in Denver, Colorado, is developing what will be a significant Anderson & Anderson service program for the Rocky Mountain region. The program includes the Anger Management Map, which pinpoints, measures, and scores anger into four significant categories.
Ms. Brill received graduate training from New York University and post-graduate training in Group and Family Work from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Group and Family Institute.

You can reach her by calling 303-267-2302, or visit us on the Web at www.angerxchange.com.

Where to go for Anger Management Classes

On the internet, there are directories containing resources to address almost any personal or professional problem. Unfortunately, since anger management is a new, not well known intervention that lacks community sanction, there is little intelligent guidance for persons seeking assistance in this area.

The American Psychiatric Association does not consider anger a medical problem or illness. In fact, anger is not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Nervous and Mental Disorders. Consequently, anger as an area of research has been neglected by all mental health disciplines. There is little evidence-based research on the effectiveness of any type of anger management intervention.

Anger is seen as a problem when it is too intense, lasts too long, occurs too frequently, or leads to aggression. It stands to reason that if anger is not a mental or nervous disorder; neither medication nor psychotherapy is indicated. If this explanation is accepted, the most reasonable intervention should one specifically designed to address issues related to stress and anger.

The majority of Certified Anger Management Providers in United States consider an individuals’ response to anger to be a learned behavior. Children are very much the product of their environment, learning how to respond/react to their own intense feelings from their families of origin.

The largest number of professional, certified anger management facilitators are trained by Los Angeles based Anderson & Anderson which is the first global provider of anger management curricula, client workbooks, posters, CDs, DVDs and other training material. These providers are listed on the Anderson & Anderson provider list which is the anger management industry standard worldwide.

For a state by state listing of anger management providers, go to any search engines and type in “anger management providers” your city and state and you will likely see a listing for the Anderson & Anderson provider in your community. You may also visit the Anderson & Anderson website at http://www.andersonservices.com/providers.html.

For more information, visit the website of the American Association of Anger Management Providers at www.aaamp.org.

Anger Management

What would you do if you chanced on an apparent intimacy in your local pub?
Nick Cohen
Sunday October 5, 2003
The Observer

'You have arranged to meet your regular partner at a local pub. You have been held up and arrive 15 minutes late. When you get there you find they are sat laughing and talking with a stranger. They do not see you immediately. What could you do to solve this problem?'

As the question is from an ambitious Government programme to cure the wickedness of tens of thousands of offenders with therapy, it's a fair guess that 'knock the bastard's lights out' would not be a good answer.

Other questions are harder to judge. How, for instance, should a villain seeking lenient treatment deal with the superficially innocuous statement: 'Strange smells, for which there is no explanation, come to me for no apparent reason'? The naïve might assume that it doesn't matter how he replies. If, however, he agrees and says, that 'yes, absolutely, strange smells assault my nostrils at the strangest times', he will be marked down as a possible schizophrenic.

In all likelihood, the criminal would have given up long before he met that trap. The exam in which the Home Office placed high hopes consists of 41 pages of closely typed text. It contains hundreds of psychological tests, role-playing games and character assessments. Most criminals couldn't begin to handle them because, contrary to the prevailing conservative wisdom, poverty and crime are bound together. Since the 1980s, crime has risen and fallen with the unemployment rate. A few years ago the Home Office found that two-thirds of its prisoners had been so poorly educated they weren't qualified to fill 95 per cent of vacancies advertised in job centres. Illiterate and innumerate, the sole occupations they were equipped to follow were menial manual labour and thieving.

Harry Fletcher from the probation workers' union, Napo, said that 70 per cent of interviewees were no more able to fill out the questionnaire than read Homer in the original. Yet the Government was oblivious to the ignorance of the criminals it was meant to be punishing and reforming. It appeared to assume that they were as likely to be the readers of broadsheet newspapers as men and women who would have trouble making it past the front page of the Daily Star . How else to explain the Government's invitation to offenders to comment on the statement: 'I make it a point to read the financial section of the newspaper before turning to the sports page or entertainment'?

The use of the psychological techniques to make criminals confront their offending behaviour - why do you want to belt a man who is talking to your girlfriend? - had reduced crime in Canada. After completing the test, British men were meant to be handed over to counsellors in accordance with the Canadian model. The theory behind the behaviour therapy was that men who began by saying that they would smack anyone who even looked at their girls would be expertly guided to the conclusion that this was an 'inappropriate' way to behave. They would learn to control their emotions and, perhaps, realise that it was better to congratulate the stranger on his excellent taste in women than invite him to step outside.

But Britain isn't Canada. It is a country disfigured by fantastical inequality and an education system which abandons the children who need it most. Originally 60,000 offenders were meant to take the test.
As men dropped out and therapists were left twiddling their thumbs, the target was cut to 30,000 and then to 15,000. Maybe the attempt to solve crime by throwing psychologists at it will stagger on for a few years. Maybe it will be dropped. Whatever the outcome, public resources have been blown because of the failure of the bureaucracy to understand the country it is meant to be governing.

Buried in a report from the Office of National Statistics last week was a number which ought to make anyone who believes that more money will automatically improve public services sit up. The statisticians had found that a 9 per cent increase in public spending had delivered a measly 2.5 per cent increase in output.
The state of the criminal justice system exemplifies the chasm between theory and practice. In theory, all should be well. The prosperity brought by the withdrawal of the pound from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and the roaring bull market of the 1990s pushed crime down by about one third. Meanwhile, the Government appeared to have made matters better by providing a record number of police officers. Tony Blair himself has devoted his attention to crime. He made his name as a politician by attacking the soft Tories from the Right after the murder of James Bulger in 1993. In office his governments have sent 45 Home Office bills to Parliament since 1997 and created 661 new criminal offences. As he showed at the Labour Party conference last week, whining civil libertarians won't stop him creating 661 more if he has to.

This happy combination of circumstances, should have led to a well-staffed and under-worked system being able to deal with crime efficiently and effectively under the benevolent gaze of the Prime Minister. Yet everywhere you look the system is in crisis.

The most common punishment from magistrates is a fine. A study by PKF, a consultancy firm, found that in 2002 offenders owed £455 million in fines, court costs and compensation payments to the victims of crime, of which only £260m was collected. It's an exaggeration to say that the payment of fines is now optional and only basically honest people are dumb enough to comply with court orders, but not an outrageous exaggeration. If you wish to show contempt for the courts, it's easily done.

The probation service, which is meant to punish more serious offenders, is in as big a mess. The costs of a inept privatisation of probation hostels - which saw bills rise by 60 per cent - and a concentration of resources on managers rather than frontline staff have eviscerated the service.

According to the Home Office, 100,000 offenders are at large after breaking the terms of their probation orders. Scarcely anyone is looking for them, and once again if you want to ignore the law's punishments you are pretty much free to do so.

After fines and probation orders comes prison. The result of Tony Blair's introduction of American law-and-order politics to Britain after the Bulger murder is a rise in the prison population from 41,000 in 1993 to 73,000 today. Unlike criminals who receive lesser punishments, prisoners can't avoid the law's sanctions. On the other hand, there are so many behind bars the law can't do much for them apart from keep them locked up.

The prison service is dealing with 10,000 more prisoners than it is meant to hold. It's hopeless to even think of teaching them to read or write or sit the Government's psychological tests. A report to be issued by the Prison Reform Trust this week will show that the number of inmates awaiting trial on remand - that is, people who are innocent because they haven't been found guilty - is at a record level. The next Home Office bill - the 46th by my reckoning - will make miscarriages of justice more likely by allowing hearsay evidence and defendants' previous convictions to be put before juries.

In his speech in Bournemouth last week, Blair was at his shabbiest when he declared: 'But today in Britain in the twenty-first century it is not the innocent being convicted [which is the problem]. It's too many of the guilty going free.'

Not a word of this was true. Guilty people are avoiding fines and probation orders because a shameless government is more interested in eye-catching gestures than running an efficient criminal justice system while the innocent are banged up.

Anger Management

What would you do if you chanced on an apparent intimacy in your local pub?
Nick Cohen
Sunday October 5, 2003
The Observer

'You have arranged to meet your regular partner at a local pub. You have been held up and arrive 15 minutes late. When you get there you find they are sat laughing and talking with a stranger. They do not see you immediately. What could you do to solve this problem?'

As the question is from an ambitious Government programme to cure the wickedness of tens of thousands of offenders with therapy, it's a fair guess that 'knock the bastard's lights out' would not be a good answer.

Other questions are harder to judge. How, for instance, should a villain seeking lenient treatment deal with the superficially innocuous statement: 'Strange smells, for which there is no explanation, come to me for no apparent reason'? The naïve might assume that it doesn't matter how he replies. If, however, he agrees and says, that 'yes, absolutely, strange smells assault my nostrils at the strangest times', he will be marked down as a possible schizophrenic.

In all likelihood, the criminal would have given up long before he met that trap. The exam in which the Home Office placed high hopes consists of 41 pages of closely typed text. It contains hundreds of psychological tests, role-playing games and character assessments. Most criminals couldn't begin to handle them because, contrary to the prevailing conservative wisdom, poverty and crime are bound together. Since the 1980s, crime has risen and fallen with the unemployment rate. A few years ago the Home Office found that two-thirds of its prisoners had been so poorly educated they weren't qualified to fill 95 per cent of vacancies advertised in job centres. Illiterate and innumerate, the sole occupations they were equipped to follow were menial manual labour and thieving.

Harry Fletcher from the probation workers' union, Napo, said that 70 per cent of interviewees were no more able to fill out the questionnaire than read Homer in the original. Yet the Government was oblivious to the ignorance of the criminals it was meant to be punishing and reforming. It appeared to assume that they were as likely to be the readers of broadsheet newspapers as men and women who would have trouble making it past the front page of the Daily Star . How else to explain the Government's invitation to offenders to comment on the statement: 'I make it a point to read the financial section of the newspaper before turning to the sports page or entertainment'?

The use of the psychological techniques to make criminals confront their offending behaviour - why do you want to belt a man who is talking to your girlfriend? - had reduced crime in Canada. After completing the test, British men were meant to be handed over to counsellors in accordance with the Canadian model. The theory behind the behaviour therapy was that men who began by saying that they would smack anyone who even looked at their girls would be expertly guided to the conclusion that this was an 'inappropriate' way to behave. They would learn to control their emotions and, perhaps, realise that it was better to congratulate the stranger on his excellent taste in women than invite him to step outside.

But Britain isn't Canada. It is a country disfigured by fantastical inequality and an education system which abandons the children who need it most. Originally 60,000 offenders were meant to take the test.
As men dropped out and therapists were left twiddling their thumbs, the target was cut to 30,000 and then to 15,000. Maybe the attempt to solve crime by throwing psychologists at it will stagger on for a few years. Maybe it will be dropped. Whatever the outcome, public resources have been blown because of the failure of the bureaucracy to understand the country it is meant to be governing.

Buried in a report from the Office of National Statistics last week was a number which ought to make anyone who believes that more money will automatically improve public services sit up. The statisticians had found that a 9 per cent increase in public spending had delivered a measly 2.5 per cent increase in output.
The state of the criminal justice system exemplifies the chasm between theory and practice. In theory, all should be well. The prosperity brought by the withdrawal of the pound from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and the roaring bull market of the 1990s pushed crime down by about one third. Meanwhile, the Government appeared to have made matters better by providing a record number of police officers. Tony Blair himself has devoted his attention to crime. He made his name as a politician by attacking the soft Tories from the Right after the murder of James Bulger in 1993. In office his governments have sent 45 Home Office bills to Parliament since 1997 and created 661 new criminal offences. As he showed at the Labour Party conference last week, whining civil libertarians won't stop him creating 661 more if he has to.

This happy combination of circumstances, should have led to a well-staffed and under-worked system being able to deal with crime efficiently and effectively under the benevolent gaze of the Prime Minister. Yet everywhere you look the system is in crisis.

The most common punishment from magistrates is a fine. A study by PKF, a consultancy firm, found that in 2002 offenders owed £455 million in fines, court costs and compensation payments to the victims of crime, of which only £260m was collected. It's an exaggeration to say that the payment of fines is now optional and only basically honest people are dumb enough to comply with court orders, but not an outrageous exaggeration. If you wish to show contempt for the courts, it's easily done.

The probation service, which is meant to punish more serious offenders, is in as big a mess. The costs of a inept privatisation of probation hostels - which saw bills rise by 60 per cent - and a concentration of resources on managers rather than frontline staff have eviscerated the service.
According to the Home Office, 100,000 offenders are at large after breaking the terms of their probation orders. Scarcely anyone is looking for them, and once again if you want to ignore the law's punishments you are pretty much free to do so.

After fines and probation orders comes prison. The result of Tony Blair's introduction of American law-and-order politics to Britain after the Bulger murder is a rise in the prison population from 41,000 in 1993 to 73,000 today. Unlike criminals who receive lesser punishments, prisoners can't avoid the law's sanctions. On the other hand, there are so many behind bars the law can't do much for them apart from keep them locked up.

The prison service is dealing with 10,000 more prisoners than it is meant to hold. It's hopeless to even think of teaching them to read or write or sit the Government's psychological tests. A report to be issued by the Prison Reform Trust this week will show that the number of inmates awaiting trial on remand - that is, people who are innocent because they haven't been found guilty - is at a record level. The next Home Office bill - the 46th by my reckoning - will make miscarriages of justice more likely by allowing hearsay evidence and defendants' previous convictions to be put before juries.

In his speech in Bournemouth last week, Blair was at his shabbiest when he declared: 'But today in Britain in the twenty-first century it is not the innocent being convicted [which is the problem]. It's too many of the guilty going free.'

Not a word of this was true. Guilty people are avoiding fines and probation orders because a shameless government is more interested in eye-catching gestures than running an efficient criminal justice system while the innocent are banged up.

ANGER: WHAT’S GOING TO CONTROL THE HOTHEAD?

Contributed by: Sonia Brill on 9/10/2006

People in America are angry. We get angry at traffic jams, long lines, being on hold, confusing phone menus, bad weather-it doesn't take too much to get the juices flowing.

All of us have been here-angry-at one point or another. But anger takes on a new dimension when it reaches the home front.

Imagine you are trying to explain a point to your wife and the conversation quickly goes south. Soon, you are yelling and screaming to get her to listen. What happened? Why is it so hard to talk to her?

A few weeks later, you are in a therapist's office, explaining your situation. Even after the counseling sessions, the fighting endures. Anger is still alive and well, expressed in bitter words and accusations.Trying to navigate complex feelings of unresolved conflict resulting from poorly managed anger is no easy task. Anger can be one of the most frightening and complicated emotions we experience. For some, anger can be a seething cauldron that explodes if the conditions are ripe. For others, anger is not a loud, spectacular expression but a chronically irritable and grumpy disposition.

Easily angered people don't always curse and throw things; sometimes they withdraw socially, sulk, or get physically ill. People who have explosions of anger land themselves in trouble, enough to find themselves behind bars or charged with restraining orders. Others lose their marriage or job over the mismanagement of their anger.

What's Out There?

It would behoove angry people to not seek help. Oftentimes, we only seek counseling or an anger management group once we are mandated or if we are told to get help. However, with anger management books, CDs, DVDs, and classes popping up everywhere, who knows what works? It's a multi-million-dollar industry, colorfully packaged for consumers to be served by a host of entrepreneurs and experts who are anxious to teach the secrets of self-control.

George Anderson, president of Anderson & Anderson, a Los Angeles-based anger management firm and consultant for the movie Anger Management, has contracts with Los Angeles court systems, colleges, Fortune 500 companies, the military, and hospitals across the country."It should be a class," Anderson says.

Anderson, the first global anger management/executive coaching training provider, identifies that there are differences in programs as well as practices.

Today, many "practitioners" call themselves anger management counselors. Some of them hold degrees in psychology, to practice professionally, with varying skill proficiency; others have business degrees and claim to have the answers to anger management.

What's The Difference?

Anger X change is the only program of its kind in Denver/Boulder and the Colorado area that is a Certified Anderson Anger Management Program. This program uses The Anger Management Map, an assessment that scores, pinpoints, and measures emotional intelligence into skills that can be learned in order for participants to be successful at managing their anger. The skills covered in and measured by in the Anger Management Map have been identified as the key Emotional Intelligence skills needed in managing anger - Communication Styles, Empathy, Stress Management, Anger Management and Anger Control, Fear Management or Self-Defeating Communication Patterns, and Change Orientation, which is the degree of motivation to change.

Finally, there is a measurement that can guide the hothead from becoming too "hot." No more aimless classes or groups. This is clearly not a cookie-cutter approach. The information gleamed is priceless in determining a plan of action. It has been documented that a scored assessment such as the Anger Management Map is vital in determining and enhancing academic achievement, relationship success, professional success, and positive personal change.

The Anger X change program consists of The Anger Management Map and the Instructional Program, which includes a workbook containing four significant subsections, for effective anger control. The skills identified are augmented and taught, then taken beyond the Knowledge phase so they can be learned and practiced until they become a natural pattern.

Most of us know the risks of not getting help for our anger. Sometimes, however, we fool ourselves into believing that there won't be that "next episode" or that "he had it coming," justifying our action.

When It Is Time to Get Help

If your relationship is failing due to constant conflicts or your anger is affecting your work and other significant relationships, it is time to do something about it. Know the differences in the programs. First, ask questions and find out if your provider is trained, certified, and licensed in a mental health profession. Second, ask the provider if he or she is certified as a trained facilitator of anger management or a specialist. Although some programs have structured classes, most programs do not provide a measured assessment, ongoing self-assessments, or a post-course assessment.

Sonia Brill, LCSW, CAMF, owner of Anger X change, located in Denver, Colorado, is developing what will be a significant Anderson & Anderson service program for the RockyMountain region. Ms. Brill is an Executive Coach and a Certified Anger Management Facilitator. Visit the Anger X change Web site at http://www.angerxchange.com/ or send an e-mail to info@angerxchange.com.

--- Sonia Brill is a Diplomate member of the American Association of Anger Management Providers.

Anderson & Anderson sells Anger Management Franchise

Innpacked Ltd. will own the exclusive rights to use the internationally recognized Anderson & Anderson model of anger management and executive coaching for the entire U.K. In addition to selling Anderson & Anderson workbooks and products throughout the U.K., Innpacked Ltd. will conduct trainings for persons interested in becoming Certified Anger Management Facilitators.

Innpacked Ltd. is a national (U.K.) training provider specializing in the design and delivery of courses and workshops to the licensed, hospitality, and service industries. This includes training courses from the BIIAB, SIA and CIEH, Innpacked’s Consultancy Service, its discounted buying group, and other training resources.

Anderson & Anderson is the first global anger management/executive coaching training provider. The Anderson & Anderson model of anger management is the most effective and most widely recognized curriculum in the world. It currently has Certified Anger Management Facilitators in the United States, Canada, Guam, South Africa, Bermuda, Mexico, Cayman Islands, England, the Philippines, and Italy. The Anderson & Anderson adolescent and adult curriculum is now available in Spanish, English, and Italian. Certification for Facilitators is available on CD-ROM, as well as live Seminars and Video Conferences throughout the world. The Anderson Anger Management/executive Coaching Program is used by Medical Quality Assurance and Hospital Chains throughout the U.S.

For more information, contact Anderson & Anderson at http://www.andersonservices.com/.

Companies Find Solution to Anger Among Employees

LOS ANGELES, CA – September 4, 2006 - Anger is a very common obstacle
within many companies, governmental agencies, prisons and schools. Studies show that aggression and violence in the workplace increase absenteeism, reduce productivity, lower morale, and increase a company's liability.

Environments in which anger does not dominate are pleasant for employees,
students, and others; this increases productivity and overall morale.

Anderson & Anderson, founded by George Anderson, announces the release
of the new self-help DVD "Gaining Control of Yourself" on September 4, 2006.
The DVD will be available to the general public and provides anger
management information for individuals, work groups and managers.

George Anderson has authored several self-help books such as "Tips for Managing Anger", "Controlling Ourselves", "Parenting in a
Troubled World", "The California Domestic Violence Intervention
Curriculum", and "Depression, Awareness, Recognition and Intervention".
He has been featured on the cover of the Los Angeles Times Magazine as well as the Sunday edition of the London Times.

With workbooks published in English, Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish and
Russian, Mr. Anderson assists companies and individuals all around the
world with anger management intervention and executive coaching.

With the Anderson & Anderson anger management DVD, emotional
intelligence is used to teach skills in empathy, communication, stress
management, and emotional self-motivation. Anger is seen as a secondary
emotion often as a result of stress, fear, depression, or anxiety. "The Anderson&Anderson model of anger management is the most widely
used intervention/self-help guide in the world. It is approved for use
in the United States, Canada, the U.K., Italy, Bermuda, Mexico, Philippines and Guam. The Charles R. Drew School of Allied Health is the first School of Public Health to adopt this model based on it's adaptability for training students," comments Dr. Roosevelt Jacob, Dean, School of Allied Health, Charles R. Drew, School of Medicine.

Details about the new Anger Management self-help DVD are available
At the Anderson&Anderson on-line store:http://www.store.andersonservices.com/.
--- Anderson&Anderson is the first global provider of anger management

Hector Palacios awarded school district contract in Texas

Hector Palacios, one of the newest Anderson & Anderson anger management providers, recently won a contract to provide anger management for Pharr-San Juan-Alamo South Texas Unified School District, where he will provide anger management for five middle schools, five high schools, and one continuing education school for pregnant girls.

Two other Texas districts are in negotiations with Mr. Palacios for similar contracts. The volume of these contracts has made it necessary for Mr. Palacios to purchase the 40-hour facilitator certification for four additional staff members.

The agreement calls for Mr. Palacios’ office to provide anger management for four hundred at-risk students. The classes will be semiweekly, for a total of twenty sessions. Each group of students will begin with the Conover Assessment Pre test and will end with the Post test.