Dealing with offending behaviour: Anger management Flashcards
What is anger management a form of?
CBT (reducing the irrational thoughts (cognitive restructuring) towards incidents e.g thinking someone is looking at you a certain way.
What are the three stages of anger management?
Cognitive preparation, skills acquisition, application practice.
What is cognitive preparation in anger management?
Offender reflects on past experiences, considering the typical patterns of anger. Learns to identify things that may trigger anger. The way an offender views a situation is irrational and it is the therapist role to bring attention to this.
What are the three methods of skills that a therapist may introduce?
Cognitive, Behavioural or Psychological.
What is an example of a cognitive skill that a therapist might introduce for anger management?
positive self talk and calmness
What is an example of a behavioural skill that a therapist might introduce for anger management?
assertiveness training (in how to communicate effectively) should eventually become automatic.
What is an example of a psychological skill that a therapist might introduce for anger management?
deal with physical response to anger such as relaxation training or meditation.
Once the skills acquisition process is done in anger management, what happens during the application process?
Offender given the opportunity to practice their new skills within a controlled environment. E.G Offender and therapist may role play scenarios.
During the application process of anger management- if the offender shows the skills they have developed what should the therapist do?
Provide positive reinforcement
Has there been positive outcomes with young offenders using anger management?
Keen studied the progress made with young offenders aged between 17 and 21 who took part in nationally recognised anger management programme.
Offenders reported increased awareness of their anger management difficulties and increased capacity to exercise self control
Procedure of Jane Ireland (2004)?
compared the progress of two groups of offenders: one of which took part in an anger management programme adapted from the National Anger Management Package) and the other, a non-treatment control.
assessed using three measures: an interview, a behaviour checklist completed by prison officers and a self-report questionnaire.
Findings of Jane Ireland 2004?
The researchers found that 92% of the experimental group showed an improvement on at least one measure, 48% showed an improvement on the checklist and the self-report. There were no such improvements within the control group.
What is a strength of anger management?
The anger management approach suggests there is a straightforward causal relationship between anger and offending. Anger is assumed to be an important antecedent to offending in that it produces the emotional state necessary to commit crime.
Why might anger management be better than behaviour modification?
behaviour modification deal with only surface behaviour and not the processes that drive such behaviour. Experience of anger management may give offenders new insight into the cause of their criminality and allow them to self-discover ways of managing themselves outside of the prison setting.
What is a limitation of anger management in terms of practicality?
Anger management programmes are expensive to run as they require the services of highly-trained specialists who are used to dealing with violent offenders. For this reason, many prisons may not have the resources to fund such programmes
