NCJ Number
167982
Date Published
1995
Length
147 pages
Annotation
This book provides readers with the information and skills necessary to help children manage their behavior without resorting to violence; one of the keys to achieving such a goal lies in teaching children to control their anger and hostility.
Abstract
The first chapter focuses on the interaction of anger and violence in schools and the costs to learning. Topics addressed include anger as a cause of violence, its impact on physical and emotional health, the expression of anger in acceptable ways, the stress and emotion of anger, anger management and school-based educators, and the applications of anger management. A chapter on the theories of anger in children considers the frustration- aggression hypothesis, rational-emotive behavior therapy, the primary belief leading to anger, the changing culture that results in irrational beliefs, and methods of increasing frustration tolerance. A third chapter discusses the difference between rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT) and other approaches. It notes that REBT places primary importance on cognition as the determinant of emotion; it postulates that irrational thought, typically in the form of dogmatic beliefs and overgeneralizations, are responsible for emotional disturbance. A series of practical chapters consider steps in "setting the stage for change," techniques for coping with anger, transcriptions of three sessions with a fourth-grade male, and anger control groups and classroom lessons. Appended sample materials and supplementary information, a resource directory, a 29-item bibliography, and a subject index