Anger Management Worksheets for Kids & Teens
Useful anger management worksheets for kids & teens +
Other anger management resources
Anger management worksheets are useful tools that can assist us when we need to work with kids and teens on developing coping skills and appropriate ways to deal with anger. Anger management worksheets for kids and teens may be a good support to address one or more of the following issues:
- analyzing anger issues
- identifying anger triggers
- teaching social problem-solving
- teaching / learning emotion identification
- planning our coping strategies
- tracking our anger management progress
The worksheets that I share below will be extremely useful to support your work on coping skills development at home and at school, and a very useful resource for your counseling / health practice.
These worksheets can be found in posts that deal with specific aspects of anger management. Those articles also share tips and advice on how to use these anger management resources.
This post is structured in two main section:
- Anger Management Worksheets
- Calm Down Tools & Resources
Anger Management Worksheets for Kids & Teens
In this section you will find a selection of free printable anger management worksheets for kids. I will also share our most comprehensive resource to help develop coping skills for anger (this one is a paid product).
The anger worksheets for kids & teens below include:
- Anger Workbooks:
- A Cool Kid Journal
- The Cool Teen Toolkit
- Anger Triggers Worksheets
- Anger Signs Worksheets
- Emotions Charts (Expressing our anger appropriately)
- Problem Solving
Anger Workbook for Kids
This is our most comprehensive anger management resource.
It captures most tips, advice, and strategies you can read in the blog in a “kid-friendly package”.
A Cool Kid Journal is a workbook + journal + coping cards (70!), ALL IN ONE. (121 fun colorful pages that include educational content, journaling pages, worksheets, and cards)
It is a digital product to help kids develop coping skills for anger.
Anger Workbook for Teens
Anger Triggers Worksheets
Anger triggers can be situations, moods, actions, anything that makes your child angry.
Anger trigger worksheets help you work with your kid on identifying anger triggers. The post below will take you through:
- most common anger triggers
- ideas to brainstorm your child’s anger triggers
- ideas on how to prepare an action plan to deal appropriately with those triggers
⇒Go to the post and grab your anger triggers worksheets
Anger Signs Worksheet
Recognizing and responding to others’ facial expressions or emotional states is difficult for some kids, especially children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or intellectual disabilities.
The post below will provide you with:
- A checklist of anger signs (the way our body tells us that we are getting angry)
- A beautiful anger signs worksheet for kids
⇒ Go to the post and grab your anger signs worksheet
Expressing Anger Worksheets
Some kids find it difficult to identify, label or express feelings. Emotions charts (or feelings thermometers) are a very useful tool to help kids express their anger appropriately.
The posts below will teach you how to use emotions charts effectively.
They will also provide you with two different examples of tools that can help kids express their angry feelings:
Anger Iceberg for Kids
The anger iceberg is a metaphor that highlights that the expressions of anger that are so easy to notice may be hiding other complex emotions.
On the tip of the anger iceberg, we represent what we can see (our anger signs).
Beneath the surface, we explore underlying feelings and emotions ( vulnerable emotions that we disguise as anger and other complex emotions)
⇒ Go to the post and check out this fun anger iceberg activity for kids.
Problem-Solving Worksheet
Often, anger problems arise from the inability to solve a problem.
In those cases, developing good problem-solving abilities may be the best help.
You could work on developing your kid´s problem-solving abilities by helping your child:
- Identify and describe a problem
- Generate alternatives
- Predict consequences
- Choose the best alternative, and
- Action it.
This is a simple problem-solving worksheet that may be useful when you work with kids.
⇒ This worksheet can be downloaded at the end of this post!
Calm Down Worksheets & Tools
In this section you will find a selection of tools and resources to help your kids or students calm down:
- 54321 Grounding Technique
- Calming Box
- Calm Down Bottles
- Calm Down Strategy Cards
54321 Grounding Technique
The 54321 exercise is a very simple but extremely effective grounding technique. It distracts your attention from your unwanted emotions and thoughts, focusing on the here-and-now, by using your fives senses.
The post below will teach you how to practice the 54321 Grounding Exercise and you will also be able to download a free poster.
⇒ 54321 Grounding Worksheet (poster)
Calming Toolbox
A calming box is a collection of items that help us self-regulate that are conveniently stored in a box or other type of container.
Having a calm down kit allows you to easily access all the items that facilitate your kids’ calm down strategies.
⇒ Find ideas of useful ítem to include in your calming box
⇒Relevant reading:100 Calming Strategies for Kids
Calm Down Bottles
Sensory Bottles or Calm Down Bottles are containers (bottles or jars) filled with different materials that provide a sensory soothing and pleasant experience.
⇒ Learn how to prepare your own homemade calm down bottles (4 recipes)
Calm Down Strategy Cards
Using visuals (calm down cards) when teaching kids to cope with big emotions (anger or anxiety) helps them make their choices and promotes self regulation.
The post below provides you with tips and advice on how to use calm down cards. It also comes with a free set of 30 calming strategy cards.
⇒ Read post and downlaod your calm down strategy cards
Download: Free PDF Triggers & Problem Solving
Anger Management Worksheets for Kids & Teens
One Comment
Anisha
This is wonderful and most needed document as a counselor.