Take control of anger and irritability and improve your quality of lifeIrritability and even occasional instances of bad temper can cause difficulties in relationships with friends, family or colleagues and leave us feeling unhappy and exhausted. If you have found this to your cost, then this book can really help.It explains what makes us angry and what we can do to prevent it. Modern psychological techniques offer a positive approach with long-term goals in mind and show how you can handle situations that would tax anybody! Contains a complete self-help programme and monitoring sheets Explains why we get irritable and angry and what we can do about it Describes how to permanently improve your overall quality of life Gives illustrative examples and case studies Contains a powerful trouble-shooting guideWILLIAM DAVIES is a consultant psychologist and Academic Director of APT, The Association for Psychological Therapies, an organisation that has trained over 100, 000 mental health professionals in the UK. He has extensive experience of working with irritability, anger, aggression and violence.Overcoming self-help guides describe psychological techniques to treat long-standing and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical. Series Editor: Professor Peter CooperREADING WELLThis book is recommended by the national Reading Well Books on Prescription scheme for England delivered by The Reading Agency and the Society of Chief Librarians with funding from Arts Council England.www.readingagency.org.uk/readingwell