The first chapter focuses on the interaction of anger and violence in schools and the costs to learning. Topics addressed include anger as a cause of violence, its impact on physical and emotional health, the expression of anger in acceptable ways, the stress and emotion of anger, anger management and school-based educators, and the applications of anger management. A chapter on the theories of anger in children considers the frustration- aggression hypothesis, rational-emotive behavior therapy, the primary belief leading to anger, the changing culture that results in irrational beliefs, and methods of increasing frustration tolerance. A third chapter discusses the difference between rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT) and other approaches. It notes that REBT places primary importance on cognition as the determinant of emotion; it postulates that irrational thought, typically in the form of dogmatic beliefs and overgeneralizations, are responsible for emotional disturbance. A series of practical chapters consider steps in "setting the stage for change," techniques for coping with anger, transcriptions of three sessions with a fourth-grade male, and anger control groups and classroom lessons. Appended sample materials and supplementary information, a resource directory, a 29-item bibliography, and a subject index