FSHS 700
Anger Management in Adult-Child Relationships (FireWorks-3)

Final Exam
Version A

Don't worry about counting words in your response. Answer each question to the extent that makes you comfortable. Be kind to the reader (me) by avoiding repitition or any other type of padding. Each answer will graded from 0-5.

Send me your answers by email (as an attachment to a Microsoft Word file) or by mail to:

Charles A. Smith
FireWorks
R 343 Justin Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506

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1. Why is the course called FireWorks? Can you find a weakness in this model?

2. FireWorks emphasizes principles and skills. What is the rationale for this "two front" approach?

3. Describe the relationship between anger and fear.

4. Defend the notion that anger can have value.

5. Describe what is meant by emotional highjacking. Give an example.

6. You have been asked to provide an anger management experience for a father who has been convicted of child abuse. Identify two principles and two skills you would emphasize with this dad. Explain.

7. Consider a mother who has problems screaming at her preschoolers. If she took the FireWorks course, how would she put REACH into practice. Give an example at each step of what she might do.

8. What is the relationship between an anger set point and an anger action point?

9. Identify one of the anger management skills in FireWorks and link it to two principles that provide its foundation.

10. Describe what it means to reconcile after anger. Why is that action one of the FireWorks skills?