Many teens who struggle with anger also struggle with anxiety--and their anxiety can actually drive their anger or make it worse. Using an approach rooted in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), When Anxiety Makes You Angry helps teen readers identify the anxiety beneath their outbursts, practice acceptance of difficult emotions--rather than fighting or trying to ignore them--and learn healthy coping and self-regulation skills.

Foreword -- Introduction for parents -- Introduction for teens -- 1. The iceberg: What else is underneath your anger? -- 2. The cognitive triangle -- 3. Why anxiety and anger are A-OK -- 4. Figure our your explosion point -- 5. Take a deep breath -- it's time for coping skills! -- 6. Problem solving with anxiety-driven anger -- 7. The three-step approach to anxiety and anger management -- 8. Change doesn't happen unless you want it: (And you're motivated enough to follow through)