Help teens and tweens understand and manage anger with Anger Decoders, a 10-session anger management curriculum designed for middle and high school counseling! This structured program combines cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) strategies, expressive arts activities, anger management worksheets, and coping skills tools to help students recognize anger triggers, understand their emotional responses, and develop healthier ways to express and manage anger.

Perfect for individual counseling, small group counseling, and social-emotional learning (SEL) interventions, this curriculum includes scripted facilitator guidance, discussion prompts, visuals, and hands-on activities. Students explore how anger shows up in their bodies, identify underlying emotions, practice helpful thinking strategies, and create personalized coping skills toolboxes they can use in everyday situations and relationships.

📦 What's Included:

✔️ 10 Structured Anger Management Counseling Sessions with scripted facilitator guidance

✔️ 47 Counseling Objectives for IEP goals or counseling treatment plans

✔️ Anger Management Worksheets, SEL Visuals, Discussion Prompts, and Coping Skills Activities

✔️ Pre-Group and Post-Group Surveys to assess student understanding and progress

✔️ CBT-Based Activities to explore connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

✔️ Expressive Arts Activities, Guided Reflections, and Creative Projects

✔️ Anger Thermometer, Anger Iceberg, and Anger Cycle Activities

✔️ Personalized Coping Skills Cards and Coping Skills Toolbox Activities

✔️ Assertive Communication and Relationship-Building Activities

🎒 Quick Details: Grades 5–10 | 👥 Individual + small group counseling | 🖨️ Printable worksheets + facilitator guides | 🎯 Anger management, CBT + emotional regulation

📚 10 Anger Management Counseling Sessions:

✔️ Session 1: Introduction to Anger – Normalize anger as an emotion, explore common myths, establish group connections, and complete a pre-group survey

✔️ Session 2: Recognizing Anger in the Body – Build interoceptive awareness by identifying physical signs of anger through reflection and expressive arts activities

✔️ Session 3: Levels of Anger – Use an anger thermometer to recognize different levels of anger and notice signs of escalation

✔️ Session 4: Anger Triggers – Identify personal triggers and explore strategies for responding to challenging situations

✔️ Session 5: The Anger Cycle & Resilience – Understand the anger cycle and practice CBT strategies for identifying and choosing helpful thoughts

✔️ Session 6: What's Under the Anger? – Explore underlying emotions using the anger iceberg and an expressive arts project

✔️ Session 7: Anger Styles – Reflect on personal anger styles through a quiz, discussion, and worksheets

✔️ Session 8: Helpful Thoughts & Coping Tools – Practice reframing unhelpful thoughts and create personalized coping skills cards

✔️ Session 9: Coping Skills Toolbox – Build an individualized coping plan using coping cards, visualization, movement, and other calming strategies

✔️ Session 10: Assertive Communication & Relationships – Practice passive, assertive, and aggressive communication, explore anger in online and offline relationships, and complete a post-group survey

🎯 Skills Addressed:

Anger management, emotional regulation, self-awareness, interoception, anger triggers, frustration tolerance, cognitive restructuring, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), coping skills, resilience, emotional expression, assertive communication, relationship skills, self-management, and social-emotional learning.

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Facilitate a 10-session anger management small group for middle or high school students
• Adapt individual lessons for one-on-one counseling sessions based on student needs and goals
• Use the 47 counseling objectives to support individualized IEP goals or treatment planning
• Incorporate the pre- and post-group surveys to gather information about student learning and growth
• Help students recognize physical warning signs of anger and identify their personal triggers
• Use CBT worksheets to explore the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
• Incorporate expressive arts activities to help students explore emotions that may be difficult to put into words
• Guide students in creating personalized coping skills cards and toolboxes
• Practice assertive communication through discussions about peer relationships, texting, gaming, and social media
• Reinforce skills across sessions by revisiting coping strategies and reflecting on real-life situations

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

Designed for school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, licensed mental health counselors, therapists, and other mental health professionals supporting tweens and teens with anger management, emotional regulation, coping skills, and healthy communication.

This curriculum can be used in middle school, high school, and other appropriate counseling or educational settings.

🖨️ Format & Download:

This resource includes 10 structured counseling lessons with facilitator guidance, printable anger management worksheets, SEL visuals, discussion prompts, and hands-on coping skills activities. The curriculum is designed to support a progressive sequence of lessons while allowing professionals to adapt activities to individual student needs.

📌 Important Notes:

• This is a digital download. No physical product will be shipped. Due to the digital nature of this resource, all sales are final and refunds are not available