Aggression Replacement Training: a Comprehensive Intervention for Aggressive Youth, 3rd Edition. John Gibbs & Barry Glick, $39.95 (Grades 6-12)

Aggression Replacement Training offers a powerful intervention for teaching at-risk youth to understand and replace aggression and antisocial behavior with positive alternatives. The book provides a coordinated, three-part training approach to Pro-social Skills, Anger Control and Moral Reasoning.

The authors address trainee motivation and resistance, enhancing performance generalization, and recent applications in schools and other settings. Appendixes include guidelines, checklists, moral reasoning problem situations, and summaries of outcome evaluations. The accompanying CD provides PDFs of all the reproducible forms and student handouts.

Anger Management: an Anger Management Training Package for Individuals with Disabilities. Hrepsime Gulbenkoglu & Nick Hagiliassis, $61.95

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: a Practical Guide, 2nd Edition. Adrian Faupel, Elizabeth Herrick & Peter Charp, $40.95

Do you work with angry children? Are you wondering why young people don’t listen when they are angry? Are you exhausted from trying to understand angry behaviour? Anger Management is a practical guide that will help you to stay calm in the face of angry outbursts from children and young people. Written by chartered psychologists with extensive experience in the field, this helpful book will:

• Increase your understanding of anger
• Offer you a range of practical management interventions
• Help you to manage your own behaviours to build more effective relationships
• Reduce the stress experienced by staff and parents who lack confidence in the face of aggressive behaviour.

This 2nd edition of Anger Management reflects the significant developments in the field of neuro-psychology and our understanding of the physiology of emotions. Containing information, explanations and practical advice that will enable you to cope with angry behaviour in the best way possible, as well as a range of helpful photocopiable resources, this book will prove invaluable to teachers as well as parents, carers, psychologists, social workers and health care workers.

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, $28.95

Playing with Fire: Training for Those Working with Young People in Conflict, 2nd edition. Fiona MacBeth & Nic Fine, $52.95

PLAYING WITH FIRE is a structured manual and training programme to help youth counsellors work with young people caught up in conflict and violence. All aspects of conflict are covered, from the initial igniting spark to the roaring blaze.

The manual includes ideas and session plans that can be adapted to the needs of a particular group. Sessions include exercises and activities that explore situations of conflict, develop skills to deal with them, and rehearse techniques for future use. The training section outlines how to deliver the programme, including how to use role-play and work constructively with conflict in the training room.

This second edition includes new sessions on working with issues of identity and prejudice and working with wider community issues, as well as new exercises and activities. Appendices include alternative session plans and ideas on games and group work exercises. This is a valuable guide for youth practitioners and all those working with young people who face conflict or violence.

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.

Transforming Anger to Personal Power: an Anger Management Curriculum for Grades 6-12. Susan Gingras Fitzell, $26.95

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.

You Can Control Your Anger: an Emotional Intelligence GameBook. Lawrence Shapiro & Greg Elkins, $24.50, 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.

The ZONES of Regulation®: a Curriculum Designed to Foster Self-Regulation and Emotional Control. Leah Kuypers, $46.95 (preschool through high school)

THE ZONES OF REGULATION is a curriculum geared toward helping students gain skills in consciously regulating their actions, which in turn leads to increased control and problem solving abilities. Using a cognitive behavior approach, the curriculum's learning activities are designed to help students recognize when they are in different states called "zones," with each of four zones represented by a different color. In the activities, students also learn how to use strategies or tools to stay in a zone or move from one to another. Students explore calming techniques, cognitive strategies, and sensory supports so they will have a toolbox of methods to use to move between zones. To deepen students' understanding of how to self-regulate, the lessons set out to teach students these skills: how to read others' facial expressions and recognize a broader range of emotions, perspective about how others see and react to their behavior, insight into events that trigger their less regulated states, and when and how to use tools and problem solving skills.