Just as 2007 topped all of the years before, it is almost a certainty
that 2008 will do the same. As one of the elder statesmen in anger
management and executive coaching, here are my predictions for the
year 2008:
1.) Legislation will be introduced, passed and signed into law in
California, mandating standards for Certified Anger Management
Providers. Other states like Texas will quickly follow California's
lead.
2.) Prisons and Jails throughout the nation will begin providing anger
management to all inmates whose offenses include aggression or
violence.
3.) Anger management skills will join substance abuse intervention and
GED as needed skills for prison and jail inmates.
4.) New York and Chicago will follow the lead of the Los Angeles
Unified School District in providing anger management in after school
programs as well as Adult Education Programs. Many smaller school
districts will contract out for these services.
5.) Large, small and medium sized businesses will recognize that anger
management is a cost saving intervention and move to offer anger
management in their staff development programs.
6.) Employee assistance professionals will be forced to concede their
lack of training and experience in anger management and seek to
include anger management as one of the core courses for the CEAP
certification.
7.) Legislation introduced in the last session of the Texas State
Legislature by Senator Whitmire from Houston, requiring anger
management for all middle school students, will be passed and
implemented in Texas.
8.) Anderson & Anderson will revise its popular anger management
curriculum, making it consistent with the new California Legislation.
9.) Providers with limited training and curricula in executive
coaching for physicians will quickly recognize their limitations and
seek additional training and certification in this new niche in anger
management.
10.) Anderson & Anderson will develop a new curriculum for executive
coach certification training. This training will focus on executive
coaching/anger management for physicians.
George Anderson, MSW, BCD, CAMF, CEAP
Diplomate, American Association of Anger Management Providers
Anderson & Anderson, The Trusted Name in Anger Management
