Getting Over Getting Mad: Positive Ways to Manage Anger in Your Most Important Relationships (27 page)

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The National Domestic Violence Hotline

800-799-7233

www.ndvh.org

National Resource Center on Domestic Violence

800-537-2238

National Youth Crisis Hotline

800-448-4663

Peace Education International

Award-winning materials for teaching children the skills of nonviolent conflict resolution.

888-667-3223

www.kidspeacenet.com

Women Helping Battered Women

800-228-7395

Women's Rape Crisis Center

800-489-7273

Music to Open Your Heart

Amazing Grace, Mahalia Jackson

Amazing Grace: The Inspirational

Collection, B. J. Thomas

Songs from a Parent to a Child,

Art Garfunkel

Be sure to listen to “Good Luck Charm,”

a duet with son James.

Other

To order Sprinkles:

www.livelovelaugh.com

Books on Anger

Anger: How to Live With and Without It, by Albert Ellis (Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Publishing Group, 1977).

Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion, by Carol Travis (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989).

The Anger Book, by Theodore Rubin (Macmillan, 1969).

The Dance of Anger, by Harriet Lerner (New York: Harper & Row, 1985).

The Defiant Child: A Parent's Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder, by Dr. Douglas A. Riley (Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing, 1997).

How to Express Anger (Without Hurting Yourself or Others) To order this pamphlet for your school or organization call: Journeryworks Publishing, 800-775-1998.

150 Facts about Grieving Children, by Erin Linn (San Francisco, CA: Mark Publishing, 1990).

When Anger Hurts Your Kids: A Parents' Guide, by Matthew McKay, Ph.D., and Patrick Fanning (Oakland, CA: New Harbinger, 1996).

Web Sites

Family Information

www.familyeducation.com

www.parentsoup.com

www.parents.com

Overcoming Abusive Relationships

www.cybergirl.com

www.emergedy.com

www.pavnet.org

Self-Assessment Although these are not scientific, you can take these self-assessment tests online and identify your tendencies.

Identify Your Personality Type

www.keirsey.com

Parenting with Love and Laughter Quiz

www.judyford.com/jfparentingquiz.html

Road Rage

www.queendom.com

www.drivers.com

Stress Test

www.eap.com.au/stress_test.htm>

Supersensitive Person Test

www.supersensitiveperson.com/selftest2.html>

A Wide Collection of Self-Assessment Tests

www.acc.scu.edu/~tnahal/psych.html>

Women Watch

www.un.org/womenwatch/

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book came to be because my mentor and dearest friend, William Ashoka Ross, believed in me and loved me enough to let me get mad. Mary Jane Ryan of Conari Press kept the concept alive for five years while teaching me how to write. Leslie Berriman, my optimistic editor at Conari Press, and Pam Suwinsky, copyeditor, brilliantly smoothed out the manuscript. Brenda Knight, sales director, continues to encourage my work by selling thousands of my books.

Tad Benson, Cliff Durfee, Bob Edwards, Marie Guise, M.A., Julie Hotard, Ph.D., Virginia Kimball, Chloe Patton, Cathy Schalkle, and Jean Theisen contributed much appreciated life experience, handholding, and chocolate. Jay Schlechter, Ph.D., whose sweet laughter softens my heart, shared his wisdom and called every day to check on me and keep me going.

Other Books By The Author

Wonderful Ways to Love a Child

Wonderful Ways to Love a Teenager

Wonderful Ways to Be a Family

Wonderful Ways to Be a Stepparent

Wonderful Ways to Love a Grandchild

Blessed Expectations

Between Mother and Daughter

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Judy Ford, L.C.S.W., a nationally recognized family therapist, educator, and bestselling author, has dedicated her life to family healing and wholeness. She has worked for nearly three decades with children and families in various settings—from gang turf in the inner city to crisis intervention in hospitals. Her anger management workshops, “Winning Ways to Handle Conflicts, Complaints, and Little Annoyances” have been attended by thousands. A family therapist, she resides in Washington state with her daughter.

Workshop and speaking information is available at Judy's Web site:
www.judyford.com

or you may write:

Judy Ford, L.C.S.W. P. O. Box 834

Kirkland, WA 98083 or e-mail:

[email protected]

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