Treatments for Angry Aggression

Aggressive Offenders' Cognition: Theory, Research, and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 215-229

  Hollin, Clive R ^a   Bloxsom, Claire A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anger management in multimodal context; Anger, aggression and violence; Determinants and consequences of anger; Effectiveness of anger management with offenders; Novaco's model of anger; Raymond Novaco's conceptualisation of anger within cognitive behavioural framework; State Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI; Spielberger, 1999) and Novaco Anger Scale; Treatments for angry aggression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889435204     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470746295.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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