Check-In Procedure: Anger

Monitoring your anger will help increase your awareness about your patterns of anger and identify the kinds of situations, thoughts, feelings, and consequences that are associated with anger. In each weekly session, there will be a check-in procedure to follow up on the between-session challenge from the previous week and to report the highest level of anger reached on the anger meter during the past week. You will also use the anger awareness record to identify the event that led to your anger, the cues that were associated with your anger, any positive outcomes or negative consequences, and the strategies you used to manage your anger in response to the event (see chart on page 13). You will be using the following format to check in weekly before the next scheduled session: