Kate Collins-Donnelly clearly explains how irrational thoughts influence negative emotions such as anger. Meet the anger gremlin: a troublesome pest whose favorite meal is your anger, and the more he eats the angrier you get!

The book comes across as friendly and accessible, it's not too thick, no realms of text or intimidating formality. I break up most chapters into 2-3 "lessons" with my son so we can get as much out of it as possible.It’s brillaint my son has asd adhd odd and this has really helped me see how he thinks he’s 5 and this is a little old for him in places but overall amazing. On the whole I think this book is an excellent tool for prompting discussion around anxiety, explaining anxiety to a child and detaching them how to manage this response to situations. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Starving the Anger Gremlin is easy to read and fun to complete, and is an ideal anger management resource for those working with young people, including counsellors, therapists, social workers and school counsellors, as well as parents.

The book suggests that it can be used by the young person to work through or alongside an adult or professional. Starving the Anger Gremlin is an ideal anger management resource for those working with young people including counselors, therapists, social workers and school counselors, as well as parents. Starving the Anger Gremlin is easy to read and fun to complete, and is an ideal anger management resource for those working with children, including counsellors, therapists, social workers and school counsellors, as well as parents. The gremlin character is accessible for youth, without being too cute and babyish for this age group.Starving the gremlin" serves as a great metaphor for changing your thoughts to change your behavior. Starving the Anger Gremlin is easy to read and fun to complete, and is an ideal anger management resource for those working with young people including counsellors, therapists, social workers and school counsellors, as well as parents. Her clever model shows children how the Anger Gremlin's hunger is triggered by events that lead to thoughts that feed him, which results in his tremendous angry power.

Starving the Anger Gremlin is a workbook of activities designed for young people with anger issues to work through on their own or with a parent or professional to help guide. He liked the fact that it was written in a non-judgemental way, that it gave you constructive tools to use and discussed examples that were relative to his world. Publishing Info: Paperback 176 pages / 2014 Tags: anger managment, Challenging behavior, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. It uses pictures, diagrams, quotes from young people, checklists, questions, space for written answers, scenarios and suggestions.Packed full of stories, puzzles, quizzes, and colouring, drawing and writing games, this is an excellent resource for parents or practitioners to use with children aged 5 to 9 years. He also found the quotes from other young people reassuring as he realised that he wasn't on his own in feeling and behaving the way he did. The Gremlin series, more familiar to teen and adult communities, has finally made its way to younger populations. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.