AWI: "Amazon" Warrior Institute
Like the flower in this inhospitable environment, anger can be a warrior that fights for life when dire circumstances arise. AWI hopes to connect people with their useful anger in a similar way.
This institute has been created as a web-based entity for the free distribution of resources related to anger as an innate response to perceived injustice. Conceived in a mental health perspective, "Amazon" Warrior Theory (McGinnis, 2008) was determined as a way to approach anger within a function-dysfunction polar system that is informed by the client's unique belief system and worldview.
Based on clinical case experience, "Amazon" Warrior Theory (AWT) (McGinnis, 2008) is a processing model and conceptualization of anger within a
sound theoretical practice. AWT offers clinicians and clients with
language and a processing paradigm for anger that will normalize and affirm this emotion as a human experience.
AWT can be particularly useful in Psychodynamic,
Humanistic, Cognitive Behavioral, and Post Modern treatment planning.
Messiah University
AWI @ Messiah University was the result of a workload reallocation project designed by Associate Professor, Carol ZA McGinnis PhD, SIP, BC-TMH, LCPC, NCC.
As the first step in providing the public and the counseling profession with function angering tools, the "Amazon" Warrior Institute is hosted as a pilot for later institute incorporation.
Disclaimer
As a "startup" institute, AWI is meant to serve the public without promise for improved anger or the elimination of symptoms that are better suited for licensed counselor care.
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