Nurturing Young Minds

Edited by Dr Ramesh Manocha & Gyongyi Horvath
To read the full chapter go to Volume 2, chapter 23, pp. 347-361.

Authors

Melissa Abu-Gazaleh

CEO, Top Blokes Foundation

Melissa Abu-Gazaleh is the 2016 New South Wales Young Australian of the Year and CEO of the Top Blokes Foundation, a boy’s mental health and wellbeing organisation that has delivered social education programs to over 10 000 young men across Australia.

Website: www.topblokes.org.au, www.melissaabugazaleh.com

This chapter will highlight what parents and educators can do to support young people to understand and cope with their own feelings of anger and reduce the display of aggression.

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Abblett, M & Willard, C, 2017, Helping Your Angry Teen, New Harbinger Publications, Oakland.

Bowden, T & Bowden, S, 2013, I Just Get So…Angry! Dealing with Anger and Other Strong Emotions for Teenagers, Exisle Publishing, Wollombi.

Gilgun, J, ‘Lemons or Lemonade? An Anger Workbook for Teens’, www.cehd.umn.edu/ssw/Documents/GilgunPDFs/Lemons-Lemonade-Teens.pdf

Golden, B, 2006, Healthy Anger: How to Help Children and Teens Manage Their Anger, Oxford University Press.

Hariton, J, ‘What’s Normal and What’s Not? Adolescents and Anger’, https://www.human.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/PAM/Parenting/Adolescents-and-Anger-Jo-Hariton.pdf

Kaufman, M, ‘The Seven P’s of Men’s Violence’, ecbiz194.inmotionhosting.com/~micha383/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Kaufman-7-Ps-of-Mens-Violence.pdf

Manocha, R (Ed), 2017, Growing Happy, Healthy Young Minds: Generation Next, HachetteAustralia, Sydney.

Purcell, M & Murphy, J, 2014, Mindfulness for Teen Anger: A Workbook to Overcome Anger and Aggression, New Harbinger Publications, Oakland.

Sells, S, 2002, Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager: 7 Steps to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love, St Martin’s Griffin, New York.

Shriver, M, ‘Life Ed: Helping Teen Sons Deal with Anger’, www.nbcnews.com/feature/maria-shriver/life-ed-helping-teen-sons-deal-anger-n166596

Van Dijk, S, 2011, Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens, New Harbinger Publications, Oakland.

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