The ABC’s of Anger: Stories and Activities to Help Children Understand Anger. Ray Ali, illustrated by Eric Olsen, $21.95

Stories and charming illustrations help children identify the underlying reasons for feelings of anger and frustration and to find effective ways of dealing with those feelings.

The Anger Cure: a Step-by-Step Program to Reduce Anger, Rage, Negativity, Violence and Depression in Your Life. Kathleen O’Bannon, $17.95

Most people don’t admit to having a problem with anger. But anger is ever-present in our society, given the daily stresses and strains of modern life. Feeling constantly angry and trying to suppress it or frequently blowing off steam when under pressure can lead, eventually to physiological conditions that may be precursors to debilitating degenerative diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and premature aging.

Kathleen O’Bannon describes the hidden lifestyle conditions that fuel anger and the specific nutritional measures, stress-reduction exercises, and holistic practices that readers can use to reclaim their lives. The Anger Cure provides the personal lifestyle and nutritional counseling that O’Bannon has used to help her clients gain control of their health, their emotions and their lives.

Anger Management: an Anger Management Training Package for Individuals with Disabilities. Hrepsime Gulbenkoglu & Nick Hagiliassis, $55.00

Many people with intellectual disabilities have difficulty managing feelings of anger. Anger Management is a complete training package for helping people with intellectual or physical disabilities deal with anger in constructive, effective ways.

The training program consists of 12 fully-scripted sessions dealing with topics such as recognizing feelings of anger, learning to relax and think calmly, and being assertive and handling problems competently. Each session follows a standard format, including introductions, reviews of previous sessions, and explanations. Handouts, facilitator's script and evaluation sheets are provided for each session.

Designed specifically for people with intellectual disabilities, but suitable for people with physical disabilities too, this training package provides relevant and authoritative information and exercises.

Anger Management Games for Children. Deborah Plummer, $29.95

This practical handbook helps adults to understand, manage and reflect constructively on children's anger. Featuring a wealth of familiar and easy-to-learn games, it is designed to foster successful anger management strategies for children aged 5-12. The book covers the theory behind the games in accessible language, and includes a broad range of enjoyable activities: active and passive, verbal and non-verbal, and for different sized groups. The games address issues that might arise in age-specific situations such as sharing a toy or facing peer pressure. They also encourage children to approach their emotions as a way to facilitate personal growth and healthy relationships.

Angry Monster Workbook. Hennie Shore, $34.95 (Ages 5-12)

The Angry Monster Workbook contains dozens of activities to help children express themselves and learn ways to handle problems as they interact with others. Word searches, puzzles, drawings, mazes, and other activities are designed as therapeutic homework, to help children practice anger-control skills.

The Anger Workbook for Teens. Raychelle Cassada Lohmann, $19.95

Between family life and the pressures of school, there's no doubt that it's stressful being a teenager. But if you've noticed yourself beginning to take out your frustrations on the people you love most-your parents, brothers or sisters, and friends-it may be time to make a change. The Anger Workbook for Teens is designed to show you effective skills to help you deal with feelings of rage without losing it.

Angry Octopus: a Relaxation Story. Lori Lite, $16.95

This engaging story helps children learn progressive muscle relaxation – to quiet the ind, relax the body, let go of anger and pain, and fall asleep peacefully.

Calming the Family Storm: Anger Management for Moms, Dads and All the Kids. Gary McKay & Steven Maybell, $18.95

Anger and confrontation are a part of our lives, like it or not. Every normal family will experience anger, but the reward for families that learn how to deal effectively with that anger is a healthier, happier family environment. Calming the Family Storm is a practical manual of helpful aids for handling the inevitable anger that every family experiences. Helps families work on the changes that will result in less anger, more effective expression of the anger that you do experience, and a happier and more harmonious family life.

Cool Down and Work Through Anger. Cheri Meiners, $13.50 (ages 4-8)

It’s never too early for children to learn to recognize feelings of anger and build skills for coping in helpful, appropriate ways. With a story, questions, activities, games and tips, this new book in the Learning to Get Along series helps reinforce important anger management skills in young children.

Defying the Defiance: 151 Insights, Strategies, Lessons and Activities for Helping Students with ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder), Grades K-12. Tip Frank, Mike Paget & Jerry Wilde, $30.95

Fighting Invisible Tigers: Stress Management for Teens, 3rd Edition. Earl Hipp, $17.50

Proven, practical advice covers everything you need to know about stress management and life management, from coping with stress to being assertive, building supportive relationships, taking risks, making decisions, staying healthy, dealing with fears and misconceptions, recognizing perfectionism, using positive self-talk-even growing a funny bone.

Helping Young People to Beat Stress: a Practical Guide. Sarah McNamara, $44.95

There is growing concern today about increasing levels of stress among young people. Suicides, substance abuse, depression, anxiety and eating disorders have all been linked to stress. Young people are experiencing more social and psychological problems than ever before. Helping Young People to Beat Stress is the essential guide for professionals working to help teenagers minimize stress in their lives, both at school and at home. Sarah McNamara provides advice, information and techniques on mental and physical ways of coping with stress, study skills and time management, communication skills, and with depression and anxiety.

Revised and updated, Letting Go of Anger identifies the eleven most common anger patterns and offers step-by-step help for overcoming them.

The Little Book of Stress Relief. David Posen, $18.95

Small in size, light in tone, rich in content, The Little Book of Stress Relief offers 52 prescriptions to help us make small changes that can have a profound positive effect on the quality of our lives.

Mad: How to Deal with Your Anger and Get Respect. James Crist, $15.95

Everyone gets angry sometimes. Feeling mad is a normal human emotion. But some teens go too far and get into trouble with their parents, their school, or the law. Their anger controls them and affects their lives in negative, sometimes long-lasting ways. This practical, supportive book helps teens understand and handle their anger. They learn whether they have an anger problem, why we get angry, and how anger affects our bodies and relationships. Practical tools and strategies help them control their anger and avoid poor decisions and actions; insights from real teens let them know they’re not alone. The final chapters explore mental health problems that can complicate anger management and the role of counseling and psychotherapy. Includes resources.

The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, 6th Edition. Martha Davis, Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman & Matthew McKay, $29.95

Since its first publication in 1980, The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook has become the most indispensable resource for effective and up-to-date techniques for relaxing the body and calming the mind. No other book offers easy-to-use, step-by-step instructions for using progressive relaxation, autogenics, self-hypnosis, visualization, mindfulness, acceptance…and the list goes on. If it means relaxation, it's in this newly revised and updated edition.

The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids: Help for Children to Cope with Stress, Anxiety & Transitions. Lawrence Shapiro & Robin Sprague, $22.95; Professional edition (includes CD0ROM with workbook handouts) $34.95

Children pay close attention to their parents' moods. When parents feel upset, their kids may become anxious, and when parents wind down, children also get the chance to relax. When you feel overwhelmed and stressed, it can be hard to help your child feel balanced. The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids, written by two child therapists, offers more than fifty activities you can do together as a family to help you and your child replace stressful and anxious feelings with feelings of optimism, confidence and joy.

You'll learn proven relaxation techniques, including deep breathing, guided imagery, mindfulness, and yoga, and then receive guidance for teaching them to your child. Your child will also discover how taking time to do art and creative projects can create a sense of fulfillment and calm. By completing just one ten-minute activity from this workbook each day, you'll make relaxation a family habit that will stay with both you and your child for a lifetime.

Seeing Red: an Anger Management and Peacemaking Curriculum for Kids (Ages 6-12). Jennifer Simmonds, $16.95.

From New Society Press, a curriculum for learning the key skill of anger management: Twelve sessions for small groups…with reproducible worksheets.

The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness Skills to Help You Deal with Stress. Gina Biegel, $19.95

First, the bad news: your teenage years are some of the most stressful of your life. Up to 70 percent of teens say they're stressed out, and with pressure about grades at school, parents who just don't seem to get it, and friends who drive you crazy, it's no wonder. Here's the good news! If you learn a few strategies for getting stress under control now, you'll have the skills you need to deal with problems and difficult feelings that life sends your way in high school and beyond.

The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens is a collection of thirty-seven simple workbook activities that will teach you to reduce your worries using a technique called mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way to be aware of your thoughts and feelings in the present moment. You can use mindfulness when you start to feel as though things are spinning out of control, so you can stop worrying about what might happen and focus instead on what's happening now.

Stress Relief for Kids: Taming Your Dragons. Martha Belknap, $22.95

These creative relaxation activities for use at home and school give children the tools to cope with stress and anxiety in all areas of their lives. This new book replaces both of Martha Belknap’s two popular books, “Taming Your Dragons” and “More Taming Your Dragons”. Also available: "Taming Your Dragons CD", $20.50, with 4 relaxtion scripts.

Taming the Dragon in Your Child-From Toddler to Teen: Solutions for Breaking the Cycle of Family Anger. Meg Eastman, with Sydney Craft Rozen, $19.99

Ten years in print—still one of the most comprehensive resources. Chapters on parenting style, problem-solving style, single-parent families, struggling families, child temperament, self-calming strategies, setting limits, anxious kids, impulsive kids, seeking professional help.

Transforming Anger to Personal Power: an Anger Management Curriculum for Grades 6-12. Susan Gingras Fitzell, $27.95

Transforming Anger to Personal Power is not about adults trying to fix youth, telling them how to live, or showing them that adults know better. The goal of this program is to help students realize that they have the power to take control of their lives and emotions and choose healthy responses to anger … The program draws from several bodies of knowledge including cognitive intervention techniques, Eastern philosophy, brain research theories, and educational psychology.

A Volcano in My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger
Eliane Whitehouse & Warwick Pudney. $14.95

A creative and effective approach to helping 6-15 year olds handle their anger so that they can live successfully, healthily, happily and nonviolently, with motivation, without fear and with good relationships. An accessible resource book for teachers, parents and all who care for children, it is full of stories, and easy-to-use games and exercises which are clearly described, indicating appropriate age levels, teaching strategies, materials and procedures to follow, with worksheets for the childrens' use.

What to Do When Your Temper Flares: a Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Problems with Anger. Dawn Huebner, $17.95 (ages 6 to 12)

What to Do When Your Temper Flares guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat problems with anger. This interactive self-help book uses engaging activities, illustrations and step-by-step instructions to help kids cool angry thoughts and control their actions.

What Your Explosive Child is Trying to Tell You: Discovering the Pathway from Symptoms to Solutions. Douglas Riley, $18.95

This compassionate, no-nonsense guide explains the most common causes of explosive behaviors and tailors strategies to address the underlying cause of the behavior.

You Can Control Your Anger: an Emotional Intelligence GameBook. Lawrence Shapiro & Greg Elkins, $22.95, ages 5-12

Games are a great way to help children learn anger control, but most games take time to set up and are difficult to transport. This spiral-bound game book comes with an attached spinner, and contains over 300 questions to teach children anger control. The game can be played in just 10 minutes and is suitable for individual or group counseling as well as home or classroom use.