This worksheet is a resource to help Arab-women recognize and express feelings of anger through exploring factors that may shape their relationship to anger expression, and reflecting on past experiences. The questions consider how gender norms and cultural norms affect how anger is recognized and expressed by Arab women to help address its impact on mental health. This can help support Arab-women in recognizing anger in the lives, identifying situations where anger is felt but not expressed, and validating their own feelings of anger. These questions also aim to help clients identify situations and contexts currently invalidating or creating anger. This could be especially helpful for Arab women who are dealing with depression, physical illness, or adversity surrounding anger that they are struggling to process, acknowledge, or express. 

This worksheet focuses on the experience and expression of anger because women face different intrapersonal costs and depressive symptoms associated with anger expression (Van Dorn & Soro 2021, p. 5). It also considers the role of gender stereotypes, as concerns about confirming stereotypes or not confirming positive stereotypes about women also affect anger expression (van Breen & Barreto 2023). The multicultural approach to this worksheet is very important, as the overlap of social identities with Arab women uniquely shapes their lived experiences, such as with experiences of workplace gender harassment (Bennett, A. M., Sadek, K., & Awad, G. H. 2025).