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Beyond Anger and Violence+
A Program for Women and Gender-Diverse People Participant's Workbook

Stephanie S. Covington (Author)

9781394241316, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 30 April 2026

384 pages
26.9 x 21.6 x 2.3 cm, 0.907 kg

An essential resource for women participating in the Beyond Anger and Violence program

The Beyond Anger and Violence program is a forty-hour, evidence-based, gender-responsive, trauma-informed treatment program specifically developed for women who struggle to safely manage anger. It uses a Social-Ecological Model to understand anger and violence and explores the complex interplay between individual, relationship, community, and societal factors that gives rise to anger, assault, and property destruction.

In the newly revised second edition of the Beyond Anger and Violence: Program for Women Participant Workbook, internationally recognized clinician Stephanie S. Covington delivers a key resource for women undergoing the Beyond Anger and Violence program. This Workbook provides a place for participants to review the content of sessions, write down their thoughts and reactions, and complete activities during and after sessions.

Inside the book:

  • Help in understanding the relationships between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
  • Techniques for communication, conflict resolution, decision making, and calming behaviors
  • Ways to understand how our families, relationships, communities, and societies impact our lives
  • Strategies for understanding the roles that anger and violence play in our relationships

An essential resource for all participants undergoing the Beyond Anger and Violence program, this Participant Workbook includes brand-new coverage of the impact of trauma, the meaning of “gender,” the significance of child abuse, and how self-harm and suicide can affect anger- and violence-reduction strategies.

Introduction to the Program 1

Orientation Session 3

Introduction to the Program 3

Your Workbook 5

Group Introductions 6

Topics Covered in This Program 7

Group Agreements 7

Our Group Agreements 8

Activators or Triggers and Coping Tools 9

Five Senses 10

Breathing and Exhaling 10

Statistics on Violence in the United States 11

Definition of Violence 14

The Social-Ecological Model (People in the Environment) 15

Creating a Container 19

My Container 20

Discovering Your Anger Style 21

Self-Soothing Activity: Palms Down, Palms Up 24

Between-Sessions Activity 25

Part A: Self

Session One: Thinking Our Thoughts 29

The Spirals of Violence and Nonviolence 30

Thinking, Feeling, and Substance Use 31

Automatic Thoughts 31

Cognitive Distortion 32

My Typical Distorted Thinking 34

Feelings Inside and Outside 36

The DVD of What I Want My Words To Do To You 37

Understanding Keila 37

Understanding Me 40

Between-Sessions Activities 42

Session Two: Feeling Our Feelings 43

Identifying Feelings 44

Beliefs About Feelings 47

My Faulty Belief 48

Feelings as Clues 48

Intensity of Feelings 49

Emotional Wellness 53

Feelings and the Body 54

When Feelings Threaten To Overwhelm You 55

The Observer Self 56

Between-Sessions Activities 58

Session Three: Violence and Trauma in Our Lives 59

Violence in Relationships 60

Types of Abuse 60

The Process of Trauma 61

Calming Strategies 63

Two Calming Activities 65

Mindful Breathing 65

Ten-Point Body Scan 65

Daily Anger Log 66

Between-Sessions Activities 67

Session Four: The Effects of Trauma 71

Adverse Childhood Experiences Survey 72

The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study 74

The Effects of Trauma and Substance Use on the Brain 76

Risk Factors for Addiction 77

Personal Experiences with Substances 78

Triggers or Activators and the Body 79

Yoga Poses and the Mind-Body Connection 82

Between-Sessions Activities 83

Session Five: Understanding Our Anger 85

Anger 86

Words for Anger 87

Meeting a Feeling 88

Meeting Your Anger 90

The Anger Funnel 91

The Anger Funnel 93

Anger Triggers 94

Hidden Anger 95

Personal Anger Inventory 96

Between-Sessions Activities 100

Session Six: Managing Our Anger 101

Anger-Management Strategies 102

Anger Dos and Don’ts 104

Self-Inflicted Harm 106

Self-Reflection Tool 107

Visualization and Collage of My Personal Best 112

Between-Sessions Activities 113

Session Seven: Understanding Ourselves 115

DVD of What I Want My Words To Do To You 116

Understanding My Anger 118

Understanding My Behavior 120

Becoming Whole 122

Between-Sessions Activities 124

Part B: Relationships

Session Eight: Our Families 127

Self-Soothing Activity: Deep Breathing 128

Risk Factors 129

Family Sculpture 130

The Cost of Violence 131

Feelings and the Family 132

Unspoken Rules 132

The Anger Questionnaire 133

Wheel of Nurturing Children 136

Between-Sessions Activities 139

Session Nine: Communication 141

Communication Styles 142

Nonverbal Communication 143

Communicating Emotions 144

Group Discussion Questions 145

Strategies for Creating Connection Through Communication 146

Responses to Stress 147

Between-Sessions Activities 149

Session Ten: Power and Control 151

The Power and Control Wheel 152

Differences Between Women and Men in the Use of Force in Relationships 156

Types of Abuse in Relationships 157

The Violence Continuum 160

Stopping the Cycle of Anger in Relationships 162

Escalation and De-escalation 163

Between-Sessions Activities 165

Session Eleven: Conflict Resolution 167

Fair Fighting 168

Guidelines for Fair Fighting 168

Words, Words, Words 170

Impulse Control 171

Tips for Impulse Control 172

The Equality Wheel 174

Between-Sessions Activities 177

Session Twelve: Our Children 179

Nurturing Children in Our Lives 180

Messages About Nurturing and Raising Children 180

Abuse of Children Wheel 181

Patterns of Abuse with Children 183

Our Nurturing Legacies and What We Pass Along 184

Between-Sessions Activities 185

Session Thirteen: Nurturing in Action 187

Parenting and Caregiving Triggers 188

Drawing Our Family Dynamics 190

My Family Dynamics 191

Discipline, Consequences, and Punishment 192

Caregiving Checklist 193

Responding-to- Children Role Play 194

Creating Connection 195

Nurturing in Action 196

Between-Sessions Activities 197

Session Fourteen: Caregiving over Time and with Others 199

Parenting and Nurturing from a Distance 200

Our Villages 201

My Village 202

Caregiver Triggers 203

Power and Control and Caregivers 204

Caregivers and Communication 205

Caregiving Chapters 206

Between-Sessions Activities 207

Session Fifteen: Relationships Outside the Family 209

Relationship Roles 210

Sources of Joy, Connection, and Conflict 212

Power and Control Wheel 215

Equality Wheel 216

Between-Sessions Activities 217

Session Sixteen: Everyday Actions in Our Relationships 219

Common Relationship Situations 220

The Past 220

The Present 221

The Future 222

Relationship Decisions 223

Between-Sessions Activities 227

Session Seventeen: Intimate Relationships and Addictive Relationships 229

Falling in Love 230

Love and Addiction 231

Contrasting Intimate Relationships and Addictive Relationships 232

How To End a Relationship 233

Between-Sessions Activities 234

Part C: Community

Session Eighteen: Our communities 237

Self-Soothing Activity: Progressive Muscle Relaxation 238

Our communities 240

Visualization 241

Your Childhood 242

Your Teenage Years 244

Friendship 247

Between-Sessions Activities 248

Session Nineteen: The Importance of Safety 251

Safety in the Community 252

The Four Kinds of Safety 254

Environment and Behavior 257

Safe and Unsafe Environments 259

Safety and the Body 260

Community Maps: Past, Present, and Future 261

Between-Sessions Activities 266

Session Twenty: Creating Community 267

DVD of What I Want My Words To Do To You 268

Crossroads 270

Making Good Decisions 272

Between-Sessions Activities 274

Session Twenty-One: The Power of Community 277

DVD of What I Want My Words To Do To You 278

Writing About a Kind Act 280

Between-Sessions Activities 281

Part D: Society

Session Twenty-Two: Society and Violence 285

Self-Soothing Activity: Breathing in the Positive 286

Reviewing the Risks for Violence 287

The Culture Wheel 288

Institutional and Cultural Supports for Domestic Violence 290

Working To End Violence 293

National and International Organizations 294

Local Organizations 296

Art as an Expression of the Levels of Violence 297

Transgender, Gender Nonconforming, and Nonbinary Art 298

Between-Sessions Activities 299

Session Twenty-Three: Creating Change 303

Health, Harmony, and Wholeness 304

The Spirals of Transformation 306

Between-Sessions Activity 308

Session Twenty-Four: Transforming: Our Lives 309

Visualization 310

The Role of Remorse in Transformation 312

The Process of Transformation 313

Making Amends 315

Forgiveness 316

Between-Sessions Activities 317

Session Twenty-Five: Honoring Ourselves and Our Community 319

The Relational Wheel 320

Respect, Mutuality, and Compassion 321

Are You Becoming the Person You Want To Be? 322

ORID 323

Appreciation 325

Appendix 1: Daily Anger Log 327

Appendix 2: Yoga Poses 335

1. Breath of Joy 335

2. Seated Pigeon’s Pose 337

3. Modified Triangle 338

4. Twisted Branches to Open Wings 339

Appendix 3: Self-Reflection Tool 341

Appendix 4: The Women in the What I Want My Words To Do To You DVD 353

About the Author 359

About the Cover 361

Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]

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