Ireland: Anger Management (Treatment) Flashcards
Aim?
To assess the effectiveness of a group-based anger management programme
Method?
Quasi exp
Sample?
•exp= 50 young male prisoners who had completed the anger management course (compared pre+post scores)
•control= 37 young male prisoners who had been assessed as suitable for a course but not completed one
^matched by age, offence+level of angry behaviours reported before
Procedure?
Both measured 2 weeks before+8 weeks after
1) Prison Officers’ Behavioural checklist= 29 different angry behaviours with scores of 0, 1 or 2 for how often
2) Anger Management Assessment Questionnaire= completed by prisoners; 53 items that could indicate an anger problem
Anger management programme used?
- exp group given 12, 1 hour sessions over 3 days:
- process by which they get angry
- benefits of controlling anger
- techniques of controlling anger
- practice through role plays
Results?
- 92% of exp group improved in at least 1 measure
- 42% on 2 measures
- 8% deterioration on both measures
Conclusion?
In the short-term, anger management programmes successful however, no later reconviction rates so cannot be sure
Strengths?
- quasi= lower reliability
- supports PAS as standardised
- quantitative
- longitudinal
- supports individual debate
- holistic
- supports free will as volunteer
Weaknesses?
- quasi= higher eco v
- androcentric sample
- sample sizes= harder to make correlations
- low pop v as unrepresentative sample
- quantitative= less rich data
- situational as conducted in a prison?
- reductionist?
Anger management?
- assumes violence is caused by anger
- if individuals learn to control their anger, their violent behaviour will decrease
- largely based on CBT
CALM?
- motivation
- physiological arousal
- negative thought stopping
- communication
- apply skills to other emotions
- plan for future intervention
