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What was the aim? Howells

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To determine whether anger management was more effective than no treatment

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How many pps in Howells?

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418 male pps referred to anger management programmes in south and Western Australia

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How long did the programmes last? Howells et al

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Pps attended anger management programmes that lasted 20 hours over 10 sessions.

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When was the self report data collected? Howells

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Before the treatment and after each of the follow up sessions at 2 months and then 6 months later

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How was the self report data collected? Howells

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Two internationally used questionnaires that asked about experiences of anger and their triggers

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What was a result? Howells

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Offenders who completed the programme showed a significantly greater improvement with mean changes of 1.8 compared to the control group of 0.95

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What was concluded? Howells

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The overall impact of AMP was small and the completion of an anger management questionnaire may have a small benefit in itself

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High eco validity? Howell

Generalisable? Howell

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Data obtained in a naturally occurring treatment using real offenders

Generalisable- used a large sample size of 418 which is representative of other groups of offenders

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Lacks validity? Howells

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Due to the reliance on self report data from the offenders who may have been dishonest in their responses