Although exposure procedures have been widely accepted in the treatment of anxiety disorders, they have rarely been applied to the treatment of anger. The present paper describes an initial attempt to apply an imaginal exposure strategy to adult outpatients (n = 6) referred for anger management. This investigation reflects an empirical clinical practice approach rather than a controlled outcome...

Purpose: Anger associated with sports participation may affect inability to acutely process anger, decrease performance and increase the likelihood of risk-taking behavior in collegiate athletes. Therefore, purpose was examine prevalence anger student-athletes across sex, academic status, sport type. Methods: A cross sectional study over a three-year period examined 759 NCAA Division I at one i...

Objectives: Delinquency is one of the severe social problems. Today, changing criminal behavior and reducing the way and method of delinquency is one of the most important challenges in the juvenile justice system. Methods: Based on the cognitive-behavioral approach, this study used three principles of Red Cross and Red Crescent fundamental principles, three skills of basic life skills, and fi...

background and objectives: today, management is one of the most important factors in hospital effectiveness and performance. the objective of this study was to assess the management skills of administrators in hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences and to identify how these skills are related to effective management.   methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out o...

Emotional facial expression (EFE) decoding skills have been shown to be impaired in recovering alcoholics (RA). The aim of the present study is to replicate these results and to explore whether these abnormalities are specific to alcoholism using two control groups: non-patient controls (NC) and patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OC). Twenty-two alcoholic patients at the end of their ...

This article compares and contrasts psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioral approaches to anger intervention. Related research is discussed and a cognitive-behavioral model of anger intervention is presented. The model views anger as an affective stress reaction consisting of four factors: physiological arousal, antagonistic cognitions, environmental stimuli, and behavioral reactions. The artic...

OBJECTIVE To assess psychological and psychophysiological correlates of emotion recognition and anger experience in participants with traumatic brain injury (TBI). PARTICIPANTS Twenty participants with TBI presenting with anger problems and 22 healthy controls. PROCEDURES Participants were administered tasks assessing emotion recognition (The French Evaluation Task) and anger expression (An...

BACKGROUND Problem anger is frequently experienced by the general population and is known to cause significant problems for the individual and those around them. Whilst psychological treatments for problem anger are becoming increasingly established, this is still an under-researched area of mental health. We present an evaluation of a series of one-day anger management workshops for the public...