Cognitive Behavioral Approaches to Formulating Aggression and Violence

Forensic case formulation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 107-127

  Howells, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggression, context of problems Axis I disorders as schizophrenia or Axis II disorders, as Antisocial and Borderline; Aggressive offenders, heterogeneous needs and causal influences on offending behavior; Alternatives, to cognitive behavioral individual case formulation interventions for aggression; Clinical formulation core task in assessment and treatment of aggressive behavior; Clinical formulation, conventionally construed as individual level task; Cognitive behavioral approaches formulating aggression and violence; Formulation of aggression idiographic or nomothetic; Potential levels of formulation problem, person, symptoms of disorder, focus for formulation; Risk Needs Responsivity (RNR) framework, as 'what works' influence on offender rehabilitation; Role of anger, in formulation of aggression meriting special consideration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872663513     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119977018.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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