A new edition of a bestselling guide to taking control of your anger and improving your quality of life

Take control of anger and irritability and improve your quality of life

Irritability and even occasional instances of bad temper can cause difficulties in relationships with friends, family or colleagues and leave us feeling unhappy and exhausted. If you have found this to your cost, then this book can really help.

It explains what makes us angry and what we can do to prevent it. Modern psychological techniques offer a positive approach with long-term goals in mind and show how you can handle situations that would tax anybody!

Contains a complete self-help programme and monitoring sheets
Explains why we get irritable and angry and what we can do about it
Describes how to permanently improve your overall quality of life
Gives illustrative examples and case studies
Contains a powerful trouble-shooting guide

WILLIAM DAVIES is a consultant psychologist and Academic Director of APT, The Association for Psychological Therapies, an organisation that has trained over 100,000 mental health professionals in the UK. He has extensive experience of working with irritability, anger, aggression and violence.

Overcoming self-help guides describe psychological techniques to treat long-standing and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical.

Series Editor: Professor Peter Cooper

READING WELL
This book is recommended by the national Reading Well Books on Prescription scheme for England delivered by The Reading Agency and the Society of Chief Librarians with funding from Arts Council England.
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Constant irritability or flashes of bad temper can cause difficulties in relationships with friends, family or colleagues and leave us feeling unhappy and exhausted. This fully updated and revised edition of William Davies' bestselling title is for anyone struggling to control their rage and regretting inappropriate reactions.

It explains clearly what provokes anger and what we can do to prevent it. Techniques based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) offer a positive approach with long-term goals in mind and show how you can stay cool and successfully handle situations that would tax even the most easy-going person.

Overcoming self-help guides use clinically-proven techniques to treat long-standing and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical.

READING WELL
This book is recommended by the national Reading Well Books on Prescription scheme for England delivered by The Reading Agency and the Society of Chief Librarians with funding from Arts Council England and Wellcome.
www.reading-well.org.uk