Editing Anger management (section)

== Overview ==

The ideal goal of anger management<ref>{{Cite web|title=About - Mayo Clinic|url=https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/anger-management/about/pac-20385186?p=1|website=www.mayoclinic.org|access-date=2020-04-30}}</ref> is to control and regulate [[anger]] so that it does not result in problems. Anger is an active emotion that calls a person feeling it to respond.<ref name="W. Doyle Gentry 2007">W. Doyle Gentry, Ph.D. 2007. ''Anger Management for Dummies''. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.</ref>{{rp|4}} People get into anger issues because both the instigator and instigated lack interpersonal and social skills to maintain self-control.<ref name="W. Doyle Gentry 2007"/>{{rp|5}} Research on affect and self-regulation shows that 
it occurs because negative emotional states often impairs impulse control.<ref>Gailliot, M. T., & Tice, D. M. (2007). Emotion regulation and impulse control: People succumb to their impulses in order to feel better. In Vohs, K. D., Beaumeister, R. F.,& Loewenstein, G. (Eds.), Do emotions help or hurt decision making? A hedgefoxian perspective (pp. 203-216). New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.</ref> They can train to respond to their anger as unwanted and unpleasant rather than react to its need.<ref name="W. Doyle Gentry 2007"/>{{rp|5}} [[Turning a blind eye]] or forgiveness is a tool to turn anger off.<ref name="W. Doyle Gentry 2007"/>{{rp|5}} Getting enough sleep, exercise and good diet are tools which can assist in preventing anger.<ref name="W. Doyle Gentry 2007"/>{{rp|6}} Professionals who deal with those who have trouble managing anger include occupational therapists, mental health counselors, drug and alcohol counselors, social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists.