Howells Et Al Contemp

Question 1

What was the aim? Howells

Answer 1

To determine whether anger management was more effective than no treatment

Question 2

How many pps in Howells?

Answer 2

418 male pps referred to anger management programmes in south and Western Australia

Question 3

How long did the programmes last? Howells et al

Answer 3

Pps attended anger management programmes that lasted 20 hours over 10 sessions.

Question 4

When was the self report data collected? Howells

Answer 4

Before the treatment and after each of the follow up sessions at 2 months and then 6 months later

Question 5

How was the self report data collected? Howells

Answer 5

Two internationally used questionnaires that asked about experiences of anger and their triggers

Question 6

What was a result? Howells

Answer 6

Offenders who completed the programme showed a significantly greater improvement with mean changes of 1.8 compared to the control group of 0.95

Question 7

What was concluded? Howells

Answer 7

The overall impact of AMP was small and the completion of an anger management questionnaire may have a small benefit in itself

Question 8

High eco validity? Howell

Generalisable? Howell

Answer 8

Data obtained in a naturally occurring treatment using real offenders

Generalisable- used a large sample size of 418 which is representative of other groups of offenders

Question 9

Lacks validity? Howells

Answer 9

Due to the reliance on self report data from the offenders who may have been dishonest in their responses