What keeps you feeling angry? After some time, it may be hard to detect — except you feel angry. Often, we continue a behavior, whether negative or positive, because it yields a certain benefit. People who smoke do so despite the health hazards, simply because it feels pleasurable. They also smoke because they are hooked. [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Emotional Intelligence and Anger
Posted in 1, tagged Anger Management, Emotional Intellgence on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Empathy: Emotional Intelligence of Anger
Posted in 1, tagged Anger Management, Emotional Intelligence, Empathy on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Empathy is best described as the ability to feel for someone else’s feelings. It may be challenging to feel for other’s feelings if you feel wronged or hurt. However, if you have been angry for a long time, then look at how you’re feeling. Sometimes, rage, anger, and aggression can “cut you off” from your [...]
How are you feeling today?
Posted in 1, tagged Emotional Intelligence on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Emotions help us survive and thrive. If we are cut off from our emotions, we feel lost and overwhelmed. Every decision we make is based on our emotions, including those we make at work. Emotional intelligence is the ability to stay open to feelings — both the pleasant and the unpleasant ones. Emotional intelligence is [...]
Executive Coaching/Anger Management for Disruptive Physicians
Posted in 1 on December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
by George Anderson
The new JCAHO Standards (April 1, 2007) relative to hospital policy for handling “disruptive physicians” is sending shock waves throughout the medical community. Many hospital administrators are reluctant to pressure top admitting physicians to submit to assessment and intervention for anger management.
Some physicians are unwilling to have any type of psychiatric assessment or [...]
Why Are Abusive Physicians Reluctant to Seek Help?
Posted in 1 on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
by George Anderson, MSW, BCD, CAMF
Fellow, American Orthopsychiatric Association
Diplomate, American Association of Anger Management Providers
As a part of the medical training of all physicians, it is necessary to rotate through all of the specialties in medicine. This means that all physicians must rotate through a period of exposure in psychiatry as well as all other [...]
What to look for in an executive coach for physicians
Posted in 1 on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
by George Anderson
On April 1, 2007, the JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) established standards for all American Hospitals relative to disruptive physicians.These new standards have opened a floodgate for psychologists, psychiatrists and coaches to become immediate experts on providing intervention for “disruptive physicians” with or without credible training or experience.
Some tips for [...]
Anger management for physicians has become once of the fastest growing disiplines in executive coaching
Posted in 1 on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
by George Anderson
Undoubtedly, this is fueled by the new JCAHO requirements for “disruptive physicians”, which went into effect on April 1, 2007. The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals issued new guidelines for all hospitals relative to “disruptive physicians”. This requirement calls for hospitals to establish written policy to deal with this growing impediment [...]
Is is time for anger management in adult education
Posted in 1 on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
by George Anderson
Recently in California an entire highway was closed as the result of “road rage”. There are daily reports of airport rage, child abuse, spousal abuse, homicide and “dog fighting”. Person and property-directed aggression is not just the “rage” it is a public health epidemic nationwide.
Take a look at these stats: More than 2 [...]
Emotional intelligence may be rooted in a solid emotional vocabulary
Posted in 1, tagged emotonal intelligence on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
by Carlos Todd
I continue to explore the issue of an emotional vocabulary. Most recently I was watching a history of man on the Discovery Channel in which the issue of language was discussed. I was taken back to how humans use language to communicate with self and the world and more specifically the development of [...]
Perceptions about what anger management is maybe too restricted
Posted in 1, tagged Anger Management on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
by Carlos Todd
Anger management is a very forward focused class that teaches skills in anger management, stress management, communication skills and emotional intelligence. Some still carry the idea that anger management is for the court mandated or those who have been explosive in the recent past. This is simply a misconception.
Anger is a signal, therefore [...]
