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PROCEDURES  \n[www.commonlanguagepsychotherapy.org](www.commonlanguagepsychotherapy.org)  \nANGER MANAGEMENT  \nRaymond W NOVACO & Stanley J RENWICK, Department of Psychology & Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-7085; ph 001-949-824- 7206  \nDefinition: A structured treatment to foster self-regulation of anger and aggressive behaviour.  \nElements: Clients are taught to become alert to triggers and signs of their anger. Anger management tries to reduce anger frequency, intensity, duration, and mode of expression in three key areas:  \n1. Cognitive restructuring of clients’ attentional focus, thinking styles, fixed ways of perceiving aversive events, and rumination.  \n2. Reducing general tension, arousal to provocation, and impulsive reactions by training controlled breathing, deep muscle relaxation, and use of tranquil imagery.  \n3. Training behavioural coping (e.g. diplomacy, strategic withdrawal, and respectful assertiveness) to handle provoking situations constructively and promote problem solving.  \nCognitive, arousal reduction, and behavioural skills are fostered through therapistguided progressive exposure to simulated anger-provocations in imagined and role-play scenarios. People with angry dispositions, particularly in forensic settings, often require preliminary raising of readiness for anger management by fostering recognition of the costs of recurrent anger, by learning and practising self-monitoring and relaxation skills, and by making it safe to talk about anger.  \nRelated Procedures: Cognitive restructuring, exposure, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, problem-solving, relaxation training, role play, schema-focused therapy, social skills training, stress immunization (inoculation) .  \nApplication: Individually and in groups, for adolescents and adults, in community and institutional settings. Depth and length of sessions vary with client needs.  \n1st use: Novaco (1975)  \nReferences:  \n1. Cavell TA, Malcolm KT (2007) Anger, aggression, and interventions for interpersonal violence. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.  \n2. Novaco RW (1975) Anger control: The development and evaluation of an experimental treatment. Lexington, MA: DC Heath.  \n3. Novaco RW, Chemtob CM (2002) Anger and combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 15: 123-132.  \n4. Renwick S, Black L, Ramm M, Novaco RW (1997) Anger treatment with forensic hospital patients. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 2: 103-116.  \nCase Illustration (Novaco & Renwick, unpublished)  \nSandy, a soldier aged 26, was admitted to hospital after attempting suicide by overdose. He was angry, irritable, slept poorly, and drank excessive alcohol. Outbursts caused social isolation and frightened his family. Anger had been lifelong, and alternated with depression. He blamed recurrent “road rages” on `bad driving by  \nmiscreants’, whom he pursued and confronted. Those “road rage” episodes had begun three years earlier, after two driving accidents in a combat zone where he’d been the commanding officer but not the driver. The accidents left him disabled with pain and discomfort. He was judged unfit for service. Social withdrawal led to self-styled\"paranoid\" rumination with high arousal and sensitivity. There was no post-traumatic stress disorder. He’d been physically abused as a child.  \nSandy had anger management in individual one-hour sessions twice-weekly over six months. Keeping an anger diary helped him detect thinking, feeling, and action aspects of his anger reactions. He was helped to spot and replace antagonistic thinking with more constructive thoughts. For example, he believed that his trouble in getting medical care and military-unit support was because they felt embarrassed by and wanted to discharge him. 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