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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"anger management"”.
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Mandated Anger Management from the Perspective of Violent Offenders
<p>Anger management is a mandated treatment for violent offenders (VOs) in Harlem, New York returning from prison under parole supervision. This dissertation asks VOs to describe their experiences with parole-mandated anger management (AM). The objectives of this research are to help illuminate the …
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Evaluation of an anger management program with aggressive children in residential treatment
… basis for assuming that certain forms of anger and aggression are interdependent. While attempts have been made to reduce aggression in children by other means, there is evidence to suggest that cognitive therapies might be useful in reducing aggression by enhancing anger-management. The …
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Anger Management: Creating the role of Coleman Shedman in Romulus Linney's 'Holy Ghosts'
<p>This thesis is intended to chronicle and define the process of creating the role of Coleman Shedman in Romulus Linney's <em>Holy Ghosts</em>. Discussed will be the actor's method for bringing the role to life; employing the use of physical actions and in-depth analysis and preparation to achieve …
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Examining the role of empathy training in anger management programs for young children
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The Impact of Anger Management Training on Students of Skills for Managing Anger
… of this research has been to study the impact of anger management training on students of the Skills for Managing Anger (SMA) program used in the Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS). Conflict resolution programs are discussed as are causes of violence in school age children. The company that produces …
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Court -ordered cognitive -behavioural group treatment with adolescent offenders: Outcomes of an anger management program
… and their families. The Skills Training in Anger Reduction (STAR) program is a cognitive behavioural anger management group intervention program for juveniles, while Court Help On Increasing Control and Effectiveness (CHOICE) is a group parent training program tailored to meet the needs of …
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The Role of Empathy, Anger Management and Normative Belief about Aggression in Bullying Among Urban, African American Middle School Children
… analysis to examine the role of empathy,anger management, and normative beliefs about aggression on overt bullying, relational bullying, and prosocial behavior in urban African-American middle school children. Participants included 177 African-American sixth, seventh and eighth grade …
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Art therapy with latency period boys exhibiting overt anger and/or aggression
… as therapy, with latency period boys, to develop anger management skills. The respondents for this study were male children selected by an outpatient psychiatric clinic, using the criteria of age (latency period) and problem (anger/aggression). The six subjects assigned to the group agreed to …
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Towards sentence compliance: Examining PFMA offender pathways through Missoula Municipal and Justice Courts
… offenders are not completing their mandated anger management program. To address these concerns, this analysis examines the adjudication, from arrest to sentencing, of a cohort of defendants appearing in Missoula Municipal Court and Missoula County Justice Court. The sample includes …
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Towards sentence compliance: Examining PFMA offender pathways through Missoula Municipal and Justice Courts
… offenders are not completing their mandated anger management program. To address these concerns, this analysis examines the adjudication, from arrest to sentencing, of a cohort of defendants appearing in Missoula Municipal Court and Missoula County Justice Court. The sample includes …
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Integrating Forgiveness Therapy and the Treatment of Anger: A Randomized Controlled Trial
<p>Although the costs of uncontrolled anger are well-known, interventions for anger are less frequently studied and less effective than interventions for either depression or anxiety (NAMA, 2012). One hundred eighty-seven patients requesting anger management treatment at an outpatient counseling …
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Predictors of recidivism in adolescent offenders
… was assessed for several risk factors (i.e., anger management, ADHD, low empathy/remorse) by probation officers. Recidivism over 12 months was assessed from official records. Results indicated that after controlling for race, groups differed on several risk factors, with significant …
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Rewiring The Anger: Learning New Responses In The Therapeutic Community
… changes among inmates. Research on anger management programs in correctional settings has shown that there are measurable effects on the anger levels of participants based on quantitative pre-testing and post-testing. The present study sought to build on this research in a unique way …
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A Study of Factors Predicting Dating Violence Perpetration Among Male and Female College Students
… of relationship, relationship satisfaction, anger management skills, partner’s use of physical aggression, and partner’s use of psychological aggression. Correlations and multiple regressions were run for each gender. The study found that for males, partner’s use of physical aggression, low …
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An Exploration of Effective Treatments for Domestic Abusers
… intervention programs (BIP) psychoeducational, anger-management and coordinated community intervention. Each model is evaluated for its strengths as well as its limitations. Evidence Based Practice for domestic abusers is discussed as no current model has substantial evidence to prove its …
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Levels of self-control, partner fusion, and marital egalitariansim in men as predictors of male-to-female partner violence
… 133 men from various men's groups (men's anger management groups, a college athletic team, a civic group, church groups, a court services group, and men from counseling centers). Self control of emotional reactivity was measured by the Self Control (Sc) subscale of the California …
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A Comparison of Three Groups of Undergraduate College Males--Physically Abusive, Psychologically Abusive, and Non-Abusive: a Quantitative Analysis
… satisfaction; and amount of self-reported anger management skill. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed significant main effects among the three groups of males along several of the variables examined (Wilks' Lambda F = 4.80, df = 10, 220, p <.001). Post hoc tests revealed significant …
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The Effectiveness of Psycho-Educational Group Counseling on Sixth Grade Male Students' Anger.
This study examined anger in children and adolescence and the use of psycho-educational group counseling in anger reduction. It was hypothesized that a six week psychoeducational anger management group would reduce the cognitive, behavioral, and emotional components of anger. A pre and post-test …
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The Roles of Anger and Self-Regulation on School Readiness in Kindergarten
Young children who are anger-prone or have poor self-regulation skills tend to have difficulties in school (Diaz et al., 2017; Liu et al., 2018; Valiente et al., 2012). However, few studies have explored how anger may work together with different self-regulatory tendencies to predict children’s …
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Creating Socialization and Empathy through Athletics in Chris Crutcher’s Fiction
… In <em>Ironman</em>, a mandatory high school anger management group embodies all the aspects of team support and camaraderie in their attempt to assist Bo in achieving his athletic goals. Crutcher’s <em>Whale Talk</em> depicts the ways that official team participation can help adolescents to …
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