Q6

• Q6) Describe anger management as a method of modifying criminal behaviour (10/15)

  
• Anger management


  A type of cognitive behavioural therapy that aims to help individuals use productive methods to manage their anger instead of demonstrating their anger in abusive and criminal ways
• Anger management


  • Helps offenders deal effectively with their feelings of anger
  • Aims to promote greater self awareness and control over cognitive dimensions of anger
  • Aims to identify physiological or biological signs of anger and techniques to deal with them
  • Aims to develop problem solving and assertion skills
• Anger management programmes


  1. Cognitive preparation: offenders analyse their own patterns of anger

  2. Skills acquisition: offenders learn skills to help them manage their anger

  3. Application practice: offenders practice their newly acquired skills in a controlled and non-controlled threatening environment
• Anger management programme


  • Controlling Anger and Learning to Manage it Program (CALM)
• CALM programme


  • Teaches participants to monitor and understand their emotions to prevent and control problematic behaviours
  • Teaches skills that reduce the frequency, intensity and duration of anger to lessen the likelihood of aggression
  • Addresses the management of other strong negative emotions including jealousy
• CALM programme


  1. 24 group work sessions, each lasting 2-2.5 hours (twice a week)

  2. Understanding anger and aggression

  3. How thinking affects behaviour

  4. Developing effective communication skills

  5. Managing their anger and other emotions

  6. Practicing skills to avoid reoffending
• Anger management is an effective method of modifying criminal behaviour
• Anger management can help offenders change the way they think, identifying triggers for anger and learning to manage this in a more acceptable way
• There are a variety of anger management programmes that could help offenders to manage their behaviour and in turn create a safer society for all