The present investigation evaluated the efficacy of a Cognitive-Behavioural
Therapeutic Approach for the anger management of three adolescent males. The study
is noteworthy because it utilised essential features of Beck's Cognitive Therapy in the
cognitive restructuring phase of treatment. Previous studies have commonly employed
Rational Emotive Therapy's disputation of irrational beliefs for this phase. For this
reason it is considered to be an original contribution to the literature.
A multiple (three) single-case study research design was employed. The three
adolescents, aged 13 to 17 years, attended seven to nine one-hour counselling
sessions over a two to three month period. Pre-, post-treatment and long-term followup
psychometric measures of aggression and anecdotal reports of anger-control were
obtained from parents and teachers. Self-reports in the affective and cognitive domain,
progress in therapy, psychometric measures (aggressive behaviour subscale of the
Child Behaviour Checklist, Adapted Novaco Anger Inventory and Piers-Harris
Children's Self-Concept Scale) and continuous (including pre-, post-treatment and
long-term follow-up) assessments of the frequency of angry outbursts were obtained.
Counsellor assessments of cognitive homework and behaviour in therapy were also
made.
Results reveal marked reductions in the average daily frequencies of angry
outbursts in all cases by post-treatment and treatment effects were maintained
throughout the three-month follow-up period.
It was concluded that the cognitive-behavioural therapeutic approach warrants
further investigation as it is proposed that it is a comprehensive and efficacious
treatment for male adolescent anger problems.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/218679 |
| Date | January 1993 |
| Creators | Mahoney, Janine, N/A |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Education |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Janine Mahoney |
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