ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses "Emotions Management" module which educates criminal justice involved persons with mental illness (CJ-PMI) to understand and recognize their negative affect and how negative affect impacts their psychiatric symptomatology and criminal propensity. "Emotions Management" module includes ten sessions to help participants understand and change their functioning in the areas of anger, anxiety, and depression. The primary objective of the first session is to review participants' readiness for change with regard to emotions of anger, anxiety, and depressed mood. The third session helps participants to develop the skills needed to change their thought patterns associated with anger arousal. The primary objective of the fifth session is to facilitate participants examination of social settings that are associated with anger, and to teach exit strategies when these social settings are encountered. The primary objective of the seventh session is to teach participants cognitive skills that assist with anxiety reduction.
