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Obtain leader credentialing and trainer certification by attending workshops or ordering one the following programs:

2009 Trainer Workshops!
August 7-8; 8:30-4:30 p.m. Register now for our upcoming August 2-day Trainer workshops! Friday and Saturday. Hinsdale, IL. Approved by the National Board of Certified Counselors for 12 CEs! Includes: training in adult anger management education, coaching and curriculum, 12 week leader's guide, sample book and workbook, DVD and power point tools, certification as: Certified Anger Management Trainer and 12 NBCC CEs. Location: Redeemer Lutheran Church, Hinsdale, IL. The Anger Management Institute workshops and curriculum are approved and endorsed by the National Anger Management Association (NAMA) for recognition as: Anger Management Specialist-1 upon application for NAMA membership.
Registration: $325.00

Fall workshop dates: November 6-7, 2009. Oak Brook, IL.

Distance-learning Programs: Approved and endorsed by NAMA for designation as Anger Management Specialist after successful completion of one of these courses & 4 phone training sessions:

1. Advanced Anger Management Trainer - a 40 hour distance-learning training course for professionals, leaders and facilitators in adult, teen and coaching anger management. Study at your own pace!
2. Anger Management Coach Certification
provides you with a specialty area - coaching individuals to successfully manage anger and achieve their personal and relational goals!
3. Intermediate Level Trainer Course Certifies professionals, facilitators and leaders to skillfully help adults manage anger!
4.
Teen Anger Management Program and Trainer Certification: New & innovative teen anger management course/program for leaders and trainers
Includes :
12 week/session Leader's guide; Power point on CD for teen presentations! New DVD, sample copy of 12 week workbook with activities geared specifically for adolescents!

Other Programs:
-Do you or does your client need to complete an anger management program for the court, an employer or for personal and relational growth? Visit the Shopping Mall.
-You can now order the Group Curriculum for Leaders! Includes power point presentation, 12 week Leader's Guide, DVD, books and workbooks! Order here:Group Curriculum.

Read about the classes, courses, DVDs, resources to help you better manage anger!

Read the description online for the new
: ADVANCED TRAINER CERTIFICATE COURSE (40-Hour) in ANGER MANAGEMENT for counselors, law enforcement or probation officers and others who desire to teach and coach individuals, classes and facilitate groups in anger management.

This revised Advanced Trainer's anger management course for community groups is based on our new second edition of What's Good About Anger? for a general readership. This course is a self-study based on the new expanded book and expanded Trainers manuals. Certificate is awarded upon successful completion of two exams (25 multiple choice and essay questions), several lesson assignments and signing the Trainers contract for use of materials.

The new book and manuals are targeted for a general readership - people from any religious or non-religious background.

 

 

The Anger Management Institute offers training and certification for counselors, pastors, leaders in anger management. Our programs are now approved and endorsed by the National Anger Management Association for designation as: Anger Management Specialist-1.
Courts, employers, schools and correctional facilities have been accepting and recognizing the Anger Management Institute certificate courses and trainers classes throughout the USA since 2002.

This new training curriculum includes a revised 12-week trainer’s guide for the community with expanded teaching points, inventories and curriculum for anger and stress management, assertiveness, conflict management, emotional intelligence, empathy skills and other helpful interventions. The manual covers the following:

  • Leader’s Introduction and Guide to Leading a group: Safety, Group Guidelines, Physiological Mechanism in Anger Arousal
  • Qualifications for Leaders
  • Identifying Triggers and Underlying Causes of anger
  • Evaluation of Participants and Clients: through Assessment, Intake and Progress Forms
  • Useful inventories to assess assertiveness and empathy skills and levels of stress.
  • Central Issues for Helping People: Identifying Symptoms,
  • Encouragement Skills, Assisting with Key Questions, Dealing with False Beliefs, Providing Options for Change
  • Confidentiality, Legal and Ethical guidelines , Code of Ethics
  • Identifying When to Refer
  • Leader’s Twelve Session Community Guide with teaching points and foundational principles in anger management for individuals, classes and groups
  • Cognitive Distortions & Restructuring Thinking
  • Turning Anger into Assertiveness, Problem-solving, Conflict Management and Forgiveness.
  • Starting Groups and Managing Behavior in Groups
  • Stress Management and Relaxation skills
  • Helping People Implement a Strategy for Change: Applying Assignments and Principles
  • Use of Quizzes and Inventories
  • Adolescent Anger Management Issues and Skills
  • Anger Management Coaching Techniques
  • Research in Anger Management
  • Starting and Implementing Groups and Practice in Anger Management

You will receive a more in-depth understanding of the causes of anger, training skills to help others manage anger, foundational insights and skills for teaching anger, stress and conflict management, final exam, a sample of the second edition of What’s Good About Anger?, revised 12-week participant’s workbook, power point presentation, revised training manual and a Trainer certificate in anger management upon successful completion of exam and signing of the trainer’s contract. Certified Trainers will then qualify to become Affiliates with the Anger Management Institute and purchase quantities of resources at greater discounts.
Order this course on the Shopping Mall.

Ordering these training courses will provide you with the skills and certify you through the Institute to provide anger management education, coaching, support groups, classes or counseling for students, clients, and individuals in your practice, organization or community. These Trainer certificate courses provide you with the curriculum to help others learn how to defuse and manage their anger in healthy ways through: stress management, assertiveness, conflict resolution, problem-solving, empathy and forgiveness. Once trained – you can offer classes, coaching and groups awarding certificates to those mandated to take anger management courses by courts, employers, schools and correctional facilities.

Please visit the shopping mall to order the Faith-based version of the Anger Management Trainer's Course.
These distance-learning anger management courses are presented by Lynette Hoy, a National Certified Counselor, marriage and family counselor licensed in the state of Illinois, crisis counselor. Lynette has been designated: Anger Management Specialist-111, Diplomate, Anger Management Supervisor & Consultant with the National Anger Management Association. Mrs Hoy, the co-author of both editions of What’s Good About Anger? and author of various courses, Mrs. Hoy successfully completed the 15 CE program in Anger Management for counselors offered by the American Counseling Association and the 15 CE course at the Cape Cod Institute: Therapeutic Approaches to Anger by Dr. Ron Potter-Efron and 40 hours of training in domestic violence advocacy. Mrs. Hoy is the President of the Anger Management Insitute and presents the Anger Management Trainer certification workshops and conferences for counselors and leaders which have been approved by NBCC for 12 CEs for mental health professionals. Lynette has trained hundreds of clients, counselors, couples and students in anger management.



Order by faxing a completed credit card form!
This new course will help you learn to teach others to discover the process of anger, when it is harmful and helpful and how to defuse anger and direct anger into assertiveness, problem-solving, empathy, conflict resolution and forgiveness.

Contact Lynette Hoy for questions about these courses at:
CounselCare Connection, P.C.
Lynette Hoy, NCC, LCPC
2000 Spring Rd., Suite 603
Oak Brook, IL 60523 630-368-1880, ext. 1

CounselCare Connection, P.C. presents:
The Anger Management Institute -
Trainers Conference

August 7-8, 2009
Oak Brook, IL

Presenters: , Lynette J. Hoy, NCC, LCPC & Steve Yeschek, LCSW: Anger Management Specialists-111.

This program has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors
to provide 12 CEs .
(NBCC membership is not required to receive CEs)
The Anger Management Institute workshops and curriculum is approved and endorsed by the National Anger Management Association (NAMA) for recognition as: Anger Management Specialist-1.

This conference sponsored by CounselCare Connection, P.C. provides anger management trainer certification for participants, and fresh, research-based methods for previously certified trainers. This program has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors for CEs. Participation in 2 days fulfills Part One of 40-hour Advanced Trainer certification course.
Conference curriculum is based on the expanded edition of What's Good About Anger?, the B.A.R.K. manual and the revised “What's Good About Anger Advanced Trainer's manual. Counselors, leaders, correctional and probation officers, pastors, facilitators and educators are invited to attend and learn effective anger management skills and techniques for motivating and educating clients and students! Trainees will gain skills for: assessing potential students, teaching effective and practical anger management techniques, facilitating groups, managing difficult behavior and more!

Register for this conference by downloading a registration form and description. Space is limited!
Call Lynette Hoy to register by credit card at: 708.341.5438
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Learning Objectives: This training course will help participants gain the following skills:

1. Understand the nature, sources, triggers, and process of anger.
2. Learn when anger is helpful or harmful.
3. Identify underlying cognitive distortions of harmful anger.
4. Recognize the essential role of stress management in reducing anger.
5. Gain awareness of: the DSM IV - (mental health) disorders associated with anger problems; readiness or contraindication for anger management treatment.
6. Develop skills for: screening participants, on-going evaluation of progress, defusing hostility and managing behavior. Will provide assessment and evaluation tools.
7. Learn effective anger prevention and control strategies, including: communication skills, time-out, problem-solving, forgiveness, relaxation, restructured thinking, conflict management, the role of emotional intelligence and empathy skills. Will provide teaching tools.
8. Understand and learn helpful techniques for teaching and leading anger management classes and groups.
9. Gain awareness of cutting-edge research in anger management.
10. Identify how to develop private practice, support groups and new growth opportunities.
11. Learn ethical guidelines of anger management training and support groups.
12. Gain an understanding of the anger management coaching process and practical techniques.

About the Trainers:

Lynette J. Hoy, NCC, LCPC, is a marriage and family counselor, crisis counselor and the co-founder of CounselCare Connection, P.C. Lynette is an Anger Management Specialist-111, Diplomate, Anger Management Supervisor and Consultant with the National Anger Management Association and a Domestic Violence Advocate. Mrs. Hoy is a National Certified Counselor and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in the State of Illinois. She holds a Master's Degree in Community and Family Counseling from Northeastern Illinois University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from North Park College. Lynette successfully completed the American Counseling Association's Anger Management Training Certificate Program for counselors.

As the founder of the Anger Management Institute, Mrs. Hoy has authored anger management courses for court-ordered individuals and provides trainer certificates for leaders and counselors who desire to teach anger management and lead groups. She is a speaker, writer and seminar presenter for community groups and professional organizations.

Steve Yeschek, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and co-founder of CounselCare Connection, P.C. in Oak Park, Illinois. Steve is an Anger Management Specialist-111, Diplomate, Anger Management Supervisor and Consultant with the National Anger Management Association

Steve is an excellent clinician with extensive in-patient and out-patient counseling experience. He is an anger management specialist and consultant with the What's Good About Anger Institute. Steve specializes in counseling individuals with anger, addictions, mood and behavioral disorders and relationship issues. He is an Associate Pastor overseeing the caring ministries and support programs at his church in Crystal Lake, Illinois. Steve has facilitated many groups over the years for various issues and teaches skills for facilitating groups.
Register now through PayPal for only $325.00:

Anger Management Institute Trainers Conference 2-Day Schedule:

8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

8:30 a.m. Registration, refreshments.

8:45-9:00 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction

9:00-10:15 a.m. Overview of What's Good About Anger: the problem of anger, manifestations and triggers, the physiology of anger, when anger is harmful or helpful.

10:15-10:30 a.m. Break

10:30 a.m. 11:15 a.m. Stress management and relaxation techniques for defusing anger.

11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Cognitive distortions and restructured thinking skills.

12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch on your own

1:00-2:15 p.m. Teaching Effective Anger Control Strategies and Motivating Clients/students to Apply Skills: Communication, time-out and problem- solving skills, conflict management, developing a forgiveness process.

2:15-2:30 p.m. Break

2:30-3:30 p.m. Managing Behavior and Defusing Hostility- dealing with difficult behavior and hostility styles in treatment of individuals and groups.

3:30-4:30 p.m. Overview of Emotional Intelligence and development of empathy skills for managing anger.

8:45 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.

9-10:15 a.m. Overview of Trainers manual and Guide: Anger management group and individual pre-assessment inventories, anger survey, evaluation and progress tools. Ethical guidelines for trainers.

10:15-10:30 a.m. Break

10:30 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Assessment and referral for major mental health disorders (DSM IV) associated with anger problems. Contraindications: when participants/clients not appropriate for anger management groups and treatment.

12-1:00 p.m. Lunch on your own

1:00-2:15 p.m. Research in Anger Management. Planning and Marketing Anger Management Programs and Practice.

2:15-2:30 p.m. Break

2:30-4:30 p.m. Overview of Anger Management Coaching Theory and Principles. Practical Application and Review of Coaching Skills.

Approved by the National Anger Management Association * for designation as: Anger Management Specialist-1 for 2 day participation and NAMA membership. This program has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors * for CEs. (* NBCC membership is not required to receive CEs or to participate in workshops)

Includes: 2 days includes 12 hours CEs (6 clock hours per day) for mental health counselors by the National Board for Certified Counselors. DVD, Trainers manual, 12 lesson leader's guide, Power Point presentation and Certification as an Anger Management Trainer awarded to 2 day participants by the Institute. Qualifies for NAMA Anger Management Specialist designation. Second edition book and workbook provided to all participants. Daily continental breakfast, lunch and conference materials. 2 day participants fulfill the requirements of Part One of the Advanced Trainer Certificate course. Discounts available for resources and for those seeking to complete the 40-hour Advanced Trainer Certification curriculum.

Registration for 2-days: Cost: 2 days: $325.00. Organization groups of 2 or more: $25.00 discount per registrant.

Space is limited!
Make checks payable (prior to July 7, 2009) to: CounselCare Connection, P.C.
Mailing address:
Lynette Hoy, NCC, LCPC
2000 Spring Rd., Suite 603
Oak Brook, IL 60523
ph: 630-368-1880, ext. 1

Send checks (payable to- CounselCare Connection, P.C.) to: CounselCare Connection, P.C., Lynette Hoy, NCC, LCPC
2000 Spring Rd., Suite 603
Oak Brook, IL 60523 Include your name, address, phone and email address to receive confirmation letter.

Full Description and Registration for Anger Management Trainer's 2008 Conference

*This program has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors. Co-sponsored and approved by the Illinois Mental Health Counselors Association to provide CEs for LPCs, LSWs, LCPCs, LCSWs and LMFTs.


How To Register:
If you would like to register for this conference please download a registration form by clicking here. Or call Lynette Hoy to register at: 708.341.5438. Pay by credit card or check.


Location:

Oak Brook, IL

Contact Lynette Hoy about certification as an Anger Management Trainer or Professional at: 630-368-1880, ext. 1
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