Managing Client Anger: What to do When a Client is Angry with You

By Aphrodite Matsakis, Ph.D.

 

Helping clients get in touch with their feelings is one of the tasks of psychotherapy. But when clients get in touch with their anger at you – the therapist –the resulting emotional overload affects the entire therapy process. Managing Client Anger is designed to help therapists understand their own reactions to client anger and guide constructive interventions to the client’s anger.

Ways of dealing with client anger are examined from several theoretical perspectives.  Special chapters are devoted to helping therapists manage anger experienced by the disabled and by sexual, ethnic and racial minorities and anger stemming from trauma and personality disorders, such as borderline personality disorder.

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