CNS833 Anger Management, Domestic Violence, and Abuse   

LOGOS Equivalent Course Numbers

           Undergraduate:  CNS433 Counseling Domestic Violence

           Graduate:  CNS833 Counseling Domestic Violence

Course Description: 

This course presents a broad overview of anger management, domestic violence, and sexual abuse.  It includes etiology, methods, and techniques for treatment and recovery.

Text Books: 

The Anger Workbook—Carter and Minirth

The Wounded Heart—Allender  

 

Lesson 1: Current Anger

Lesson 2: Long-term anger

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Lesson 3: Understanding abuse/ verbal abuse

Lesson 4: Understanding Domestic Violence

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Lesson 5: Treating the Batterer

Lesson 6: Stopping the Abuse Using Boundaries

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Lesson 7: Recovery from Domestic Violence--Read Wounded Heart Part I

Lesson 8: Sexual Abuse and Addiction--Read Wounded Heart Part II

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Lesson 9: Recovery from Sexual Abuse--Read Wounded Heart Part III

Lesson 10:  Treating the Sexual Offender

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COURSE REQUIREMENTS

1.  First read and fill out the Anger Workbook, underlining important passages and insights.  

2.  Watch each DVD while referencing the book and take any additional notes not covered in the textbook.  Prepare for the open book final examination.

3.  Write a 3 page paper on your experiences working through the Anger Management Workbook.  How would you use it to counsel a client who is angry. 

4.  Write a 5 page paper on a selected topic explaining the problem, symptoms, etiology, and treatment for a particular type of abuse.  Do not just repeat back what has been discussed on the video but dig deeper into other books and the Bible for additional ideas.

5.  For graduate credit students are required to write a additional 5 page paper on how you would counsel a person who has been sexually abused directly from the Bible.  Do not just repeat back what has been discussed on the videos or what was said in a published text book but dig deeper into the Bible for additional ideas.

6.  Take the open book test that will be E-mailed to you when you obtain these materials.  You may use your notes, book, or the DVDs for reference.

7.  Submit your papers and final examination to Word of Life Institute for grading.  Remember to include the class critique form so that we can have your input on improving this course.  Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you wish us to return your papers and final examination grade.

Book:  The Anger Workbook by Les Carter & Frank Minirth  $16.99

Book cover of The Anger Workbook.The good news is anger can be managed. In The Anger Workbook, Les Carter, Ph.D. and Frank Minirth, M.D., offer a unique 13 step interactive program that will help you: Identify the best ways to handle anger. Understand how pride, fear, loneliness, and inferiority feed your anger.  Uncover and eliminate the myths that perpetuate anger—"Letting go of my anger means I am conceding defeat" or "No one understands my unique problems." Identify learned patters of relating, thinking, and behaving in your life that influence your anger.

 
 

Book:  The Wounded Heart by Dan B. Allender  $16.99  

Book cover of the Wounded Heart workbookTHE WOUNDED HEART is an intensely personal and specific look at the most "soul deadening" form of abuse, sexual abuse. It is personal because it may be affecting you, your spouse, a close friend or neighbor, or someone you know well at church. And specific because it goes well beyond the general issues and solutions discussed in other books.

 
 

Anger Management, Domestic Violence, and Abuse 5 Wide-angle with wireless mike 5 DVD set 2008 $85.00

 

Both Books and 5 DVD 2008 set $115.00

 
 

                                     Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.  1 John 4:11