howells et al - am

Question 1

what was the aim of the study?

Answer 1

to investigate whether anger management is more effective in treating offenders than no treatment at all

whether improvements in treatment can be predicted from pre treteamnet offender characteristics

Question 2

how participants were there initially ?

Answer 2

418

Question 3

how many ppts completed post intervention assessment?

Answer 3

285

Question 4

how many participants completed a two month follow up?

Answer 4

78

Question 5

how many participants completed a 6 month follow up?

Answer 5

21

Question 6

where were participants from?

Answer 6

all from referrals to prisons or community correction based management programmes in south and west australia

Question 7

what percentage had never had an anger management course?

Answer 7

73%

Question 8

a lot of offenders were what?

Answer 8

high risk offenders

Question 9

how many sessions were there?

Answer 9

10 sessions lasting two hours

Question 10

what did the trained facilitator use?

Answer 10

a manual from new zealand based on navocos framework

Question 11

what types of self report methods were used?

Answer 11

STAXI and NAS PI (novices anger scale)

Question 12

what does the NAS-PI measure?

Answer 12

intensity anger and reactions

Question 13

what measured treatment readiness?

Answer 13

SCQ anger states of change questionnaire

Question 14

what does the WAKS scale measure?

Answer 14

knowledge of techniques dealing with anger

Question 15

how did people complete measures?

Answer 15

given out in a group but filled in individually

Question 16

who was asked to do the staff rating scale of aggression for each ppt?

Answer 16

two correction officers or one member of staff

Question 17

how was programme integrity checked?

Answer 17

one exp ppt and facilitator completed a check list for each session

Question 18

what was found about to integrity?

Answer 18

there was a high integrity

Question 19

what data was collected but never used?

Answer 19

correctional data bases checked to gather data regarding incidents etc
not signifncat

Question 20

what was the mean score on anger control?

Answer 20

+0.5 and +1.5

Question 21

what was found in the two month follow up?

Answer 21

there was significant linear trend in all measures

Question 22

what was found about the six month follow uo?

Answer 22

that there was a long term improvement in anger knowledge but level improvement diminishes over time

Question 23

what was found about readiness for treatment?

Answer 23

that greater readiness for treatment is associated with greater improvement for those who had treatment