Top anger management researchers, trainers and providers worldwide

As anger management rapidly gains prevalence around the world as an intervention for person - directed aggression, it is worthwhile to identify the leaders, trend setters, gurus, and researchers who are defining the scope of professional anger management practice. This is not an exhaustive attempt to explain the theoretical and intervention approaches of those mentioned on this list. Rather, it is suggested that anybody who is interested in learning more about the subject should contact any or all of the following innovators to get more firsthand information regarding anger management.

Dr. Raymond Novaco, Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Irvine was one of the first researchers to use the term, anger management. He is responsible for developing an assessment scale for inappropriate anger.

Dr. Jerry Deffenbacher, Professor of Psychology at the Colorado State University is identified as an expert on road rage. He is a panel member of an American Psychological Association task force charged with developing a proposed new DSM category for anger as a pathological condition.

Williams LifeSkills was founded by renowned researcher and physician Redford Williams, MD and educator/historian Virginia Williams. PhD. Dr. Redford Williams is a Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Behavioral Medicine Research Center at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Virginia Williams, President of Williams LifeSkills, is a cultural historian and writer.

Psychologist Howard Kassinove, PhD, of Hofstra University.

R. Chip Titrate, PhD. is a colleague and co-researcher with Dr. Kassinove.

Dr. Tony Fiore, one of the principles of Century Anger Management, was trained in the Anderson & Anderson model of anger management and has recently developed a different model along with his partner Ari Novick. Both are Certified Anger Management Facilitators in the Anderson & Anderson model of anger management.

Dr. Leonard Ingram was trained in Chicago at the Alfred Adler Institute and maintains the award winning website: www.angermgmt.com

Mike Fisher is director of the British Association of Anger Management and major provider of anger management in the U.K.

I, George Anderson, was trained in Child Psychotherapy at the Harvard University School of Medicine. After spending many years in private practice and as a University Professor and Psychotherapist, I developed a curriculum in batterer’s intervention 15 years ago and a curriculum in anger management three years later.
I am currently working with Mike Fisher to co-sponsor an international conference on anger management. I have partnered with Leonard Ingram in the mutual marketing of our respective training products. Tony Fiore and Ari Novick are active members of the American Association of Anger Management Providers and are working collaboratively to develop standards for facilitators of anger management. Jerry Deffenbacher and I have appeared jointly on NPR, national radio. I have read research conducted by the Williams as well as Dr. Titrate and Dr. Kassinove.

I strongly recommend that all students and providers who wish to develop competency in anger management to carefully study the writings of all of the anger management leaders listed above. These are some of the prominent movers and shakers in anger management.
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George Anderson, MSW, BCD, CAMF
Fellow, American Orthopsychiatric Association
Diplomate, American Association of Anger Management Providers