MAX AT 16 YEARS OLD

MAD MAX IS BURNING INSIDE

WHAT HAPPENED TO MAKE MAX’S ANGRY FIRE?

HOW DID MAX’S FIRE GET LIT?

TRIGGERS

When something happens to you or when someone says or does something to make you

angry, it is an “external” trigger.

HOW DOES MAX MAKE IT WORSE

TRIGGERS

What you think or say or do that makes you more angry

is an “internal” Trigger

I’m going to hurt him!!!!!

HOW DOES MY BODY TELL ME THAT I’M MAD?

CUES

A physiological sign that lets you know you are getting

angry is called a “Cue”

THE ANGRY BOY

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a long nail into the big tree in the yard. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, he hammered less nails. It was easier to control his anger than to hammer those nails.

Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father said that he should pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.

The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the tree.

He said, “You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the tree. The tree will live but it will never be the same. When you say and do things to people in anger, they leave scars just like these.

You can put a knife in someone and draw it out. It won’t matter how many times you say I’m sorry, the wound will still be there. A verbal wound is as bad as physical one.

Son, from now on I want you to think carefully before you do anything in anger. Anger is a normal emotion we all have. Aggression only hurts others

  HOW CAN I PUT OUT THE FIRE?

  

DEEP BREATHING

 

COUNTING BACKWARDS

COUNTING BACKWARDS

20,19,18,17,16,15…..

or

100, 95, 90,85,80,75…

THINK OF PLEASANT THINGS

WHAT IS YOUR PLEASANT IMAGE

  

TALKING TO MYSELF CALMLY

REMINDERS

What do I say to myself calm myself down ?

What do I say to others to encourage them

to calm down ?

THINKING AHEAD

IF……… THEN………

MOST SERIOUSEXTERNAL SHORT TERM LEGAL LONG TERM SOCIAL INTERNAL

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