Anger Management

Question 1

What is anger management?

Answer 1

• Anger management programmes are employed to help offenders combat their anger problems, and help them to better manage it.

Question 2

CBT

Answer 2

• Anger managment is a cognitive behavioural therapy
• It helps someone to control angry outbursts

Question 3

RELAXATION TECHNIQUES

Answer 3

• Slowing gown increased heart rate due to anger.
• Breathing techniques/counting up to 10, lower heart rate/blood pressure and lower anger impulses physiological response

Question 4

COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING

Answer 4

• retaining thought patterns to more desirable thought patterns

Question 5

ASSERTIVE TRAINING (OR TIME OUT)

Answer 5

• Dealing with behaviour associated with anger, and how you act like your self-beliefs and the way your anger reflects this.

Question 6

RATIONALE OF CBT

Answer 6

• CBT teaches people how to control their irrational thoughts hence suggesting that the ppts will reduce their anger.

Question 7

STEP ONE - COGNITIVE PREPARATION

Answer 7

• Offenders identify situations which are likely to invoke anger, so that thought patterns can be challenged and negative consequences of their angry actions considered.

Question 8

STEP TWO - SKILL ACQUISITION

Answer 8

• new coping skills are learned to help deal with the anger-provoking situations, such as the ‘stop and think’ method or counting calmly; relaxation techniques are learned

Question 9

STEP THREE - APPLICATION PRACTICE

Answer 9

• Offenders role-play a variety of scenarios to practice new anger controlling skills

Question 10

What happens in anger management programme?

Answer 10

• consists of 24, 2 hour long sessions that occur on a regular basis
• aims to reduce frequency, duration of anger
• aims at young adult males prone to violence + recidivism