Notice to Consumers
As a consumer to Anger Management, we recognize it is important to
make an informed, educated decision when deciding on choosing a
provider for classes, training or education. We would like our current,
potential, and future consumers to clearly understand our mission, core
values, objectives and partner relationships.
The Anger Coach, AJ Novick Group and our training organization,
Century Anger Management provides high quality education, training, and
client services in the field of Anger Management.
We have the following Core Values:
- We act with integrity and honesty at all times.
- We are passionate about providing quality education and training to our consumers.
- We are open and respectful to others and dedicated to making them better.
- We are willing to embrace challenges and see them through.
- We are committed to providing excellent service to the public and continually strive to improve.
- We hold ourselves accountable for commitments and firmly stand
behind our model of intervention, our advertising to the public, and
our commitment to consumers.
Our model of intervention, developed by Dr. Tony Fiore, Ph.D. and
Ari Novick, M.A. was published in January 2005. In the absence of state
laws regulating anger management providers, we gained some very
important approvals that validate the usage of our model and training.
Our model is approved by the California State Board of Corrections
(Certificate # 03530-031088) for the training of Probation, Parole
Officers and Corrections staff. It is also approved for CEUs for LCSWs
and LMFT's by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS
PCE#2668) and CAADE (CP10704C1105), California.
A Better Understanding of Anger Management Certification
The field of anger management is not new. In fact, the term “Anger
Management” was coined back in 1975 by University of California Irvine
professor, Raymond Novaco, Ph.D. In the mid and late 1990’s anger
management started to become more and more popular in the media and
with psychotherapists. As anger management has grown and its popularity
and acceptance increased, there have been various organizations over
the last few years that have begun to offer “Certification Training” in
anger management to meet the demand for these services.
There are a handful of organizations around the county that offer
various types of “certification training” in anger management. Live in
person Certification Trainings can last from one day to three days,
depending on the provider, while others offer home study CD and DVD
products to either supplement their trainings or are added as
additional requirements of their training. The use of the word
“requirement” is also somewhat loose because there are currently no
state or federal laws that regulate anger management certification
training or providers. There are faith based trainings in anger
management certification as well as certification as an Anger
Management Therapist, Anger Resolution Therapist, Certified Anger
Management Facilitator, Certified Anger Management Professional and
perhaps even more.
There are certification training providers located all throughout
the county ranging from California, Texas, Illinois, New York, and
Florida who all have different models of intervention and all offer
different variations of training requirements, continuing education and
supervision. Century Anger Management's Professional Anger Management
Certification training requirement is currently 40 hours, which can be
completed two ways. Either through live content trainings and our state
of the art online courses or through our "Home Study" program, which
uses a combination of DVD's and online classes available through our
website. We will be publishing shortly, a continuing education
requirement for our model. Our training is extremely comprehensive, and
both providers and client feedback continues to be exceptional. We have
over hundreds of providers nationally, which include probation
departments, substance abuse agencies, domestic violence agencies,
psychotherapists, clergy, law enforcement, parenting providers, mental
health organizations, and recovery centers to name a few.
Our content training is for anger management. We do not certify
executive coaches or organizational development specialists. We have
left this up to organizations that exclusively train providers for this
niche service. No where in our advertising do we suggest that our
training is comprehensive these areas, nor to we make mention of it.
Our training is focused on giving providers skills to teach anger
management groups, primarily to adults and we offer applications to
teaching adolescents. We have kept the content training to one full day
because we don’t believe it is necessary to duplicate the teaching of
our model additional days for different age groups or work settings. We
view this as both a cost savings to consumers and an ethical business
practice.
The 8 Tools of Anger Control can be applied to both adults and
teenagers with just simple modifications which we discuss. In the
future, we will be adding one additional day to provide more
experiential involvement, which currently lacks from many training
programs, as well as additional instruction. We also believe that the
Century Anger Management model can be used to work with clients for one
on one anger management. Some people like to call this “executive
coaching”, while others may call it something else. Regardless, we
don’t suggest that our training is to certify “executive coaches” or
“organizational development” providers; we simply believe there are
other applications for our model to be used to provide anger management
services. We know that our anger management training is exceptional,
credible and highly useful for current and potential providers of anger
management. We know this because we have reviewed over 250 participant
evaluations of our trainings.
There is no single organization that can legitimately tell consumers
what the standards are for anger management certification or providers.
In light of not having a state or federal agency to regulate anger
management, our organization has been proactive in gaining more
approvals that almost any other training organization in the nation for
anger management. Approvals include the California State Board of
Corrections (Corrections Standards Authority), CAADE, CAADAC, Board of
Behavioral Sciences, NAADAC, CAARR, and the Texas Board of Alcohol and
Addiction.
We recognize that Domestic Violence training is regulated and the
standards for training are more exhaustive; however, Domestic Violence
and Anger Management are two totally different disciplines with
different requirements for participants of these programs. When and if
standards are created by a state or federal organization, we will most
certainly comply as I believe all other certification training
organizations around the country will do as well. We believe that our
training “requirements” are adequate and appropriate, and we continue
to strive to improve them. No organization in the field of anger
management should be dictated by a single person or unregulated
organization. This creates a conflict of interest, because it puts
business interests before consumer needs. This is unfair. Consumers
must be aware that there are no standards that are universally accepted
and governmentally regulated.
We welcome any anger management provider who has been through our
training to comment on this blog with feedback about the quality of
Century Anger Managements training and your experiences as a provider.
We welcome any prospective consumers of our training to ask us
questions and we would be happy to answer them in this public forum.
Tony Fiore, Ph.D
Ari Novick, Ph.D