A Multi-Session Attribution Modification Program for Children with Aggressive Behaviour: Changes in Attributions, Emotional Reaction Estimates, and Self-Reported Aggression

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 538-548

  Vassilopoulos, Stephanos P ^a   Brouzos, Andreas ^b   Andreou, Eleni ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aggression; attributions; children; cognitive bias modification; information processing; training

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CONTROL; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA;

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; PEER GROUP; SELF REPORT; SELF-CONTROL; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIOLOGICAL FACTORS;

EID: 84937811955     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: 14691833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465814000149     Document Type: Article

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