anger management

American  

[ang-ger man-ij-muhnt] / ˈæŋ gər ˌmæn ɪdʒ mənt /

noun

1. a psychotherapeutic process or program for controlling anger and preventing its destructive manifestations.

   Without anger management, your outbursts of hostility may eventually have catastrophic consequences.

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Etymology

Origin of anger management

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

The fireworks came from a handful of disgruntled stockholders led by two expert management baiters, Lewis Gilbert and Mrs. Wilma Soss.

From Time Magazine Archive

The need for the present, therefore, is to stress the need for honest, capable, expert management as a basis for credit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Organized in 1952 to free small farmers from local Chinese moneylenders, the co-op system needs expert management help.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each one of them requires its own particular process in the making, involving the necessity in most cases of complex and expensive machinery, of expert workmen, and of still more expert management.

From Business English A Practice Book by Buhlig, Rose

During the third summer, partly owing to the increased independence of her growing charges, partly to his own expert management, they met in long solitudes seldom disturbed.

From The White Morning by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn