Marcie Hambrick
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Anger Management & Counseling Expert

Marcie Hambrick Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Anger Management, Counseling, Research
- Career Focus
- Counselor, Author, Business Owner
- Affiliation
- New Leaf Outreach Anger Management & Counseling; Georgia State University
Marcie Hambrick is the Director of New Leaf Outreach Anger Management & Counseling. The agency serves court ordered and private clients in Northwest Georgia. She graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Social Work degree from Dalton State College. She received a Master of Social Work degree from Florida State University. She has worked for five years in different support roles at the Family Support Council with families with children. She has five years experience working within the public education system. She is currently studying for a PhD in Sociology at Georgia State University concentrated on Family, Health and Life Course.
The curriculum at New Leaf Outreach for Anger Management was developed by Marcie Hambrick through rigorous research on the current interdisciplinary understanding of the physiological, emotional, and learned components of anger responses in humans. This information has been combined with best practices information from empirical sources. New Leaf Outreach website at http://newleafoutreach.webs.com is a great resource for anyone.
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Does Anger Management Training Help?
Many have heard of the “flight or fight” response identified by science as a protective reaction to stressors. Human beings like other species in the animal kingdom have innate responses that are designed to protect them. Sometimes, however, these natural reactions can have unnatural and unhealthy manifestations. Research has shown that not everyone has the same physiological response to stressors (Tyson, 1998). Some individuals have a heightened arousal from stressors.
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I Saw Red: How to Stop Rage in its Tracks
Many people have had the experience of anger that goes out of control. What mechanisms are at work when anger turns to blinding rage? Researchers have termed this kind of response as reactive aggression and discovered that when one is engulfed in a rage reaction, the thinking part of the brain is not functioning well (Tyson, 1998). When a person experiences a reaction to what they perceive to be a frustration or a threat, the body prepares for action, not thought.
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Contacting Marcie Hambrick
New Leaf Outreach Anger Management & Counseling
Serving Catoosa, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Walker, and Whitfield Counties
Court Ordered and Private Clients
Dalton, GA
706-313-3510