What is the theory behind this Identifying anger triggers worksheet?
Emotions or feelings like mild irritation to severe rage all fall under the category of anger. When anger is experienced too frequently, too fiercely, or expressed in an improper way, it becomes a problem. Techniques of CBT are used to teach client anger management.
How will the worksheet help?
Trigger is any stimulus that contributes to unwanted emotions or feelings. It can be a place, person, thought, or any event. For the management of anger, identification of triggers is the first and the most important step. This worksheet will help clients to identify their own triggers of anger.
How to use the worksheet?
The worksheet can be used by therapists to develop insight in clients to identify their triggers of anger. Therapists can use this worksheet during sessions to make clients aware of their triggers that lead to anger.
Identifying anger triggers worksheet
Triggers: Triggers can be any stimulus that leads to unwanted emotion or feelings.
Please list down your own triggers in each category.
| Thoghts/Emotional state _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
| Person _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
| places/things _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
| Event/situations _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
| Write down your 4 biggest triggers and rate them on the scale of 1-10 points. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
References
Trigger. (2013, June 11). GoodTherapy.org Therapy Blog. https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/trigger
You can download this worksheet here.