1. Family Aggression Replacement Training

2. Family ART Family Aggression Replacement Training 3 Components of ART
Anger Control
Skillstreaming Skills
Moral Reasoning

3. Family ART Anger Control
The purpose of this component is to help you work on how to become angry less often and to provide you with the means to learn self-control when you do become angry. You will learn the skills necessary to choose between aggressive behavior and positive behavior. The goal is to become more able to stop your “automatic” aggressive responses long enough to consider more constructive choices.

4. Family ART Skillstreaming Skills
The purpose of this component is for you to learn alternative behaviors to the aggressive behaviors that come so easily to you. Using these social skills will help you to deal effectively with situations in which you become angry. The social skills will replace the aggressive behaviors, improving the outcome of the situation.

5. Family ART Moral Reasoning
The purpose of this component is to help you learn to look at situations from a mature and moral viewpoint. The goal is that you will be more likely to choose positive decisions than negative ones in social situations. This includes situations in which you might become angry.

6. A-B-C’s of Anger A – Activator B – Behavior C – Consequence
What triggered the problem? What led up to it?
B – Behavior
What did you do (the actual response to A)?
C – Consequence
What were the consequences (to you and to the other person)?

7. Listening 1. Look at the person who is talking.
2. Think about what is being said.
3. Wait your turn to talk.
4. Say what you want to say.

8. Making a Complaint 1. Decide what your complaint is.
2. Decide whom to complain to.
3. Tell that person your complaint.
4. Tell that person what you would like done about the problem.
5. Ask how he/she feels about what you’ve said.

9. Family ART Website
Complete homework online
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10. Family ART Free discussion about youth
Share positive memories about your teen
Share positive traits your teen has