L12 - Anger Management

Question 1

What type of strategy is implemented for anger management?

Answer 1

Cognitive behaviour therapy

Question 2

What are the three stages?

Answer 2

Cognitive preparation
Skill acquisition
Application practice

Question 3

What does cognitive preparation involve?

Answer 3

Offender identified triggers for their anger

Reflection on past events where they became angry and decide whether their interpretation was rational

Question 4

Therapist does what in cognitive preparation

Answer 4

Helps to redefine the situation as non-threatening

Question 5

What does skill acquisition involve?

Answer 5

Techniques and skills are introduced to handle situations where they might get angry
They’re cognitive, behavioural, or physiological

Question 6

What does application practice involve?

Answer 6

Offender applies skills they learnt in a monitored environment e.g. role-plays where the therapist tries to provoke the offender

Question 7

If the offender acts appropriately in the role-play what does the therapist do?

Answer 7

Positively reinforce the offender

Question 8

One positive evaluation point?

Answer 8

Anger management is a cognitive, behavioural, and social approach, acknowledging that offending is complex social/psychological behaviour

Question 9

First negative evaluation point?

Answer 9

Assumption that anger causes offending is made, which may be wrong as not all crimes are motivated by anger, e.g. financial crime/Harold Shipman murdering patients because he believed he’d relieve their suffering

Question 10

Second negative evaluation point?

Answer 10

Not all prisons have the resources to run anger management sessions, they are expensive and need highly trained specialists used to working with violent offenders