Treatment of Individuals with Anger-Control Problems and Aggressive Behaviors - Softcover

Donald Meichenbaum

Softcover

ISBN 10: 096988401X ISBN 13: 9780969884019

Publisher: Crown House Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

This Clinical Handbook provides a life-span assessment and treatment approach for individuals who have problems controlling their anger and are prone to engage in aggressive behaviors. It provides practical treatment steps and procedures on how to implement cognitive-behavioral stress-inoculation procedures. Included in this 446 page book are 25 Tables of How To Procedural Steps, Patient Handouts, Guidelines on How to Improve Generalization, an Appendix of How to talk an aggressive individual into a Social Problem Solver and an extensive list of related Website resources and an extensive Reference list. How to address co-morbid problems that co-occur with aggressive behaviors are also addressed. Tests of how to assess your level of expertise are included at the end of each of the five Sections of the book.

About this title

About the Author:

Donald Meichenbaum, PhD, has put his 40 years of experience working with trauma victims into this guidebook. He is one of the founders of Cognitive Behavior Therapy and in a survey of clinicians, he was voted "one of the 10 most influential psychotherapists of the 20th century." He is currently research director of the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment of Victims of Violence in Miami

(www.melissainstitute.org)

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown House Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 096988401X
• ISBN 13: 9780969884019
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 446