When you turn on the news you are faced with countless examples of what happens when people let anger control their reactions to situations. As a result of this increasing publicity over angry outbursts people have started to wonder in anger management is truly effective.

The first thing you need to know in order to answer this is that anger isn’t listed as a medical problem or illness according to the American Psychiatric Association. In addition, in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Nervous and Mental Disorders there is no listing for anger. This means that the areas of mental health discipline has largely neglected anger research. This means that the effectiveness of anger management hasn’t been thoroughly researched.