Anger Management Flashcards

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What is anger management?

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  • Anger management programmes are employed to help offenders combat their anger problems, and help them to better manage it.
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CBT

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  • Anger managment is a cognitive behavioural therapy
  • It helps someone to control angry outbursts
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RELAXATION TECHNIQUES

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  • Slowing gown increased heart rate due to anger.
  • Breathing techniques/counting up to 10, lower heart rate/blood pressure and lower anger impulses physiological response
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COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING

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  • retaining thought patterns to more desirable thought patterns
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ASSERTIVE TRAINING (OR TIME OUT)

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  • Dealing with behaviour associated with anger, and how you act like your self-beliefs and the way your anger reflects this.
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RATIONALE OF CBT

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  • CBT teaches people how to control their irrational thoughts hence suggesting that the ppts will reduce their anger.
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STEP ONE - COGNITIVE PREPARATION

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  • Offenders identify situations which are likely to invoke anger, so that thought patterns can be challenged and negative consequences of their angry actions considered.
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STEP TWO - SKILL ACQUISITION

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  • new coping skills are learned to help deal with the anger-provoking situations, such as the ‘stop and think’ method or counting calmly; relaxation techniques are learned
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STEP THREE - APPLICATION PRACTICE

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  • Offenders role-play a variety of scenarios to practice new anger controlling skills
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What happens in anger management programme?

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  • consists of 24, 2 hour long sessions that occur on a regular basis
  • aims to reduce frequency, duration of anger
  • aims at young adult males prone to violence + recidivism
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