Is Anonymity the Key For Successful Online Counseling For Anger Or Other Personal Difficulties?
Anger Management is about as effective as learning to play basketball on-line. Anger management is actually skill enhancement training in anger management, stress management, communication, empathy and emotional intelligence.
These skills are learned by practice and specific modeling and training. Courts in California do not accept on-line anger management classes and Managed Health Care do no cove on-line counseling of any type.
If you do a Google search for “online counseling” you will be rewarded with over one million results. When you narrow this search down to a specific term (such as anger management) you can narrow that number down to a manageable 258,000 or so. And of course you can continue to narrow the search down to various aspects of anger and decrease the results as you work. While these numbers may seem huge they also point out that online counseling in its many forms is on the internet to stay. So maybe it is time to dissect just what is out there and the benefits to be derived. Out of necessity we all must deal with the human mind. We acknowledge the mind is a wonderful, powerful and dynamic creation and that it can create many problems if improperly used. If we do not find a method to deal with these problems we possibly will suffer serious consequences in the long term. When these problems are not dealt with they continue to spiral their way into our lives causing damage until necessity force
