Dealing with offending behaviour: Anger management

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successes of anger management programmes- in general 75% sucess (Taylor and Novaco) but only moderate benifits with offenders (Howells et al)

Methodological issues with research- different programmes of different duration and different kinds of offender and lack comparability, assessment may be biased (e.g. self report)

limitations of anger management programmes- some people resist the effort to think about chnage (drama therapy may…