Editing Anger management (section)

=== Anger journaling ===
{{See also|Journal therapy|Writing therapy}}
Understanding one's own emotions can be a crucial piece of learning how to deal with anger. Children who wrote down their negative emotions in an "anger diary" actually ended up improving their emotional understanding, which in turn led to less aggression. When it comes to dealing with their emotions, children show the ability to learn best by seeing direct examples of instances that led to certain levels of anger. By seeing the reasons why they got angry, they can in the future try to avoid those actions or be prepared for the feeling they experience if they do find themselves doing something that typically results in them being angry.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Renati, R.|author2=Cavioni, V.|author3=Zanetti, M.|name-list-style=amp|year=2011|title='Miss, I got mad today!' The Anger Diary, a tool to promote emotion regulation|journal=The International Journal of Emotional Education|volume=3|issue=1|pages=48–69|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303913674}}</ref>

Simply logging episodes of anger could also be beneficial. Middle school students with emotional disorders who completed regular “anger logs” showed pronounced improvement of anger management. According to Keller, Bry and Salvador, students who used anger logs “were observed to exhibit significantly more prosocial behaviors toward their teachers and showed a trend toward exhibiting fewer negative behaviors toward peers”.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Kellner |first1=Millicent H. |last2=Bry |first2=Brenna H. |last3=Salvador |first3=Diana S. |date=2008-09-05 |title=Anger Management Effects on Middle School Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders: Anger Log Use, Aggressive and Prosocial Behavior |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07317100802275520 |journal=Child & Family Behavior Therapy |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=215–230 |doi=10.1080/07317100802275520 |s2cid=146684597 |issn=0731-7107|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Reflecting on feelings of anger in writing can be a type of Cognitive Behavioral Intervention (CBI), or a self-strategy used to combat negative thoughts.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Okamoto |first=Scott K. |date=February 2004 |title=Book Review: HELPING SCHOOLCHILDREN COPE WITH ANGER: A COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTION, by Jim Larson and John E. Lochman. New York: Guilford (The Guilford School Practitioner Series), 2002. 190 pp. $30.00 (hardbound) |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/b:comh.0000015511.77944.89 |journal=Community Mental Health Journal |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=91–92 |doi=10.1023/b:comh.0000015511.77944.89 |s2cid=34710252 |issn=0010-3853|url-access=subscription }}</ref>