Lesson 11 – Anger Management

Question 1

What type of therapy is anger management?

Answer 1

Anger management- form of cognitive 🧠 behavioural 🏃‍♂️ therapy

Question 2

What is anger management?

Answer 2

Where an individual taught how to recognise that they are losing control and are taught techniques which bring about conflict-resolution without resorting to violence knife 🔪

Question 3

How many phases does anger management have?

Answer 3

3

Question 4

What are the phases of anger management?

Answer 4

1) Cognitive preparation
2) Skill acquisition
3) Application practice

Question 5

What is cognitive preparation?

Answer 5

Offender learns to identify triggers for 😡
Reflect on events in past when they became 😡
Consider if way those events interpreted rational
Therapists role- help offender redefine situation as non- threatening

Question 6

What is skill acquisition?

Answer 6

Offender introduced to range of techniques and skills to help them handle 😡-provoking situations ⬆️ rationally
Techniques could be cognitive 🧠 (e.g. ➕ self-talk to encourage calmness), behavioural or physiological (methods of relaxation and meditation)

Question 7

What is application practice?

Answer 7

Offender given opportunity to practise skills learned in carefully monitored environment
Role plays used to re-enact scenarios that in past-> offender committing act of violence 🔪
Offender MUST take this seriously and see scenario as real AND therapist MUST be brave and ‘wind up’ offender
Successful negotiation of role play met with ➕ reinforcement from therapist

Question 8

What are the evaluation points of anger management?

Answer 8

👍- unlike 🏃‍♂️ modification, anger management tries to get to root cause of offending 🏃‍♂️ (💭 processes that-> to 😡/🔪) rather than focusing on superficial surface 🏃‍♂️
👎- assumption that 😡-> offending may be false- many crimes e.g. financial 💵crime ✖️ motivated by 😡- even murder 🔪🩸 ✖️ always motivated by 😡 e.g. Harold Shipman 🔪🩸 over 215 of his patients as he worked as a GP- motivation to alleviate their suffering
👎- 😡 management programmes expensive to run- require highly trained specialist- used to dealing with violent 🔪 offenders- many prisons ✖️ have resources to run such programmes
👎- success of 😡 management based on commitment of pps- problem if prisoners uncooperative