Child Anger: When to Call for Professional Intervention

Children who are constantly angry may also experience sadness and loneliness. This can sometimes make anger worse if it is emanating from negative feelings or thoughts your child doesn’t understand. If your child’s anger is making it difficult for them to interact with others or delaying their development, they may benefit from seeing a counselor.

Anger and Children

Your child may be struggling with certain emotional difficulties. When challenging or stressful experiences happen—passing away of a loved one, moving to a new home, the birth of a new sibling, etc.—your child may not be well equipped to understand or to interpret their feelings. It is true that these feelings may fade, but not always. Sometimes children need help processing their feelings and finding healthy ways to express them.

Emotions can be complicated even for adults to express and cope with. This can be even more difficult for children. Working with a child therapist can be very helpful for most children, especially those dealing with anger. 

Child Counseling and Anger

Your child’s anger cannot resolve what is truly troubling them. Anger is a secondary emotion, meaning we experience it when we are feeling something else. Generally it’s an emotion that leaves us feeling vulnerable, such as fear or hurt. 

Working with a counselor can help your child to identify what is going on for them and find ways to express this to you and others. Therapy can help your child to learn and utilize healthy coping skills which will help them to be successful in all life areas, especially as they get older. You will be able to participate in their sessions and be an integral part of their growth. 

Therapy with CCS

Your child’s health, happiness, and future are connected to many variables. Counseling can help them to grow their skills and be better able to manage intense emotions and challenges. 

Identifying the symptoms may not be easy, but an experienced therapist independently contracted with Carolina Counseling Services – Fuquay-Varina, NC office can help. Call CCS today to get started.

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