Description of Anger Management
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- Created on: 08-11-13 10:02
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- Describe Anger Management
- Cognitive Preperation
- Analysing past aggression and discovering patterns
- Consider the negative consequences of their actions both long and short tem
- Recurring triggers and those thoughts that regularly precede outburts of anger
- The recognition of anger provoking thoughts and that they need to change the behaviour
- Skills Acquisition
- Self control through self talk
- Offenders are taught techniques to help manage their behavioural response
- Cognitive Skills
- Aimed at changing thoughts and perceptions of the situation to dampen down the emotional response
- Thought stopping techniques like counting to ten or 'be calm, be calm'
- Learn to reappraise the situation so it does not feel thretening
- Behavioural Skills
- Aimed at reducing the physiological fight or flight response and giving options for dealing with the situation
- Relaxation training to dampen down the release of hormones
- Assertiveness training to help maintain their views without resorting to violence
- Often includes modelling, instruction and role play
- Application Practice
- Testing the offenders skills in range of situations
- Group therapy so the other members can role play situations that reflect individual triggers
- Practice dealing in a non-aggressive way
- Behaviour is reinforced by the group and good behaviour acts as a model for others
- Devloped by Novaco (1975)
- Aimed at preventing crime through cognitive processes
- Identification of triggers that may cause aggressive outburts
- The triger is turned around to be viewed in a positive light
- Relaxation techniques to help deal with the physiological responses to anger e.g. increased heart rate
- Cognitive Preperation
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