A review of treatment efficacy for individuals with anger problems: conceptual, assessment, and methodological issues

Edmondson, Christine B.; Conger, Judith Cohen

doi:10.1016/s0272-7358(96)90003-3

Cited by 140 publications

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“…Interventions for anger problems typically include contingency management, stimulus control, or social skills training [Deffenbacher et al, 2002;Edmondson and Conger, 1996]. Mindfulness training may provide a good complement to these other important skills.…”

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Could mindfulness decrease anger, hostility, and aggression by decreasing rumination?

Borders

Earleywine

Jajodia

2009

Aggressive Behavior

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Research suggests that rumination increases anger and aggression. Mindfulness, or present-focused and intentional awareness, may counteract rumination. Using structural equation modeling, we examined the relations between mindfulness, rumination, and aggression. In a pair of studies, we found a pattern of correlations consistent with rumination partially mediating a causal link between mindfulness and hostility, anger, and verbal aggression. The pattern was not consistent with rumination mediating the association between mindfulness and physical aggression. Although it is impossible with the current nonexperimental data to test causal mediation, these correlations support the idea that mindfulness could reduce rumination, which in turn could reduce aggression. These results suggest that longitudinal work and experimental manipulations mindfulness would be worthwhile approaches for further study of rumination and aggression. We discuss possible implications of these results.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Could mindfulness decrease anger, hostility, and aggression by decreasing rumination?

Borders

Earleywine

Jajodia

2009

Aggressive Behavior

238

123

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“…Several meta-analyses have examined the overall effect that anger interventions have on anger and its various dimensions, including state and trait anger, anger control, anger expression, and aggressive behavior [59,[64][65][66]. For example, DiGiuseppe and Tafrate examined 57 anger treatment studies and found that, overall, individuals who received anger treatment fared better than those who did not [59].…”

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Assessment and treatment of posttraumatic anger and aggression: A review

Taft¹,

Creech²,

Kachadourian³

2012

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Abstract-The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense's (DOD) recently published and updated Department of Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense VA/ DOD Clinical Practice Guideline for Management of PostTraumatic Stress includes irritability, severe agitation, and anger as specific symptoms that frequently co-occur with PTSD. For the first time, the guideline includes nine specific recommendations for the assessment and treatment of PTSDrelated anger, irritability, and agitation. This article will review the literature on PTSD and its association with anger and aggression. We highlight explanatory models for these associations, factors that contribute to the occurrence of anger and aggression in PTSD, assessment of anger and aggression, and effective anger management interventions and strategies.

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“…In an early review, Edmondson & Conger (1996) carried out a synthesis of 18 studies. Most had small samples and the total contact time (session length multiplied by number of sessions) was fairly limited, usually amounting to only 6-8 hours.…”

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A review of effective interventions for reducing aggression and violence

McGuire

2008

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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This paper addresses the question of whether individual violence can be reduced in frequency or severity, if so to what extent and by which methods. It opens with a brief overview of the nature of personal violence and discussion of some key definitional and methodological problems. However, its principal focus is on the findings obtained from a series of meta-analytic reviews of structured programmes for adolescents and adults who have shown repeated aggression or been convicted of personal violence, drawing together the results of studies conducted in prison, probation, youth justice and allied services. Additional results are considered from a systematic review of studies of violence prevention among offenders with mental disorders. This incorporates the preliminary findings of a meta-analysis of controlled trials of psychosocial interventions with that population. Overall, it is concluded that there is sufficient evidence currently available to substantiate the claim that personal violence can be reduced by psychosocial interventions, but that much more research is required to delineate the parameters of effectiveness in this context. Proposals are made for future investigations with reference to the theoretical understanding of causal relationships and the design of experimental trials.

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A review of treatment efficacy for individuals with anger problems: conceptual, assessment, and methodological issues

Cited by 140 publications

References 33 publications

Could mindfulness decrease anger, hostility, and aggression by decreasing rumination?

Could mindfulness decrease anger, hostility, and aggression by decreasing rumination?

Assessment and treatment of posttraumatic anger and aggression: A review

A review of effective interventions for reducing aggression and violence

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