Beyond Anger and Violence

Beyond Anger and Violence: A Prevention Program for Women is a forty-hour, evidence-based, gender-responsive, trauma-informed treatment program specifically developed for women who have difficulty managing anger. The curriculum uses a Social-Ecological Model to understand anger and violence. This four-level model considers the complex interplay between individual, relationship, community, and societal factors. It addresses the factors that put people at risk for experiencing overwhelming feelings of anger and perpetrating assaultive acts or destruction of property. This model is used by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and was used in the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) research on women in prison.