The last several years have seen a significant
increase in research on anger and its clinical
treatment. As a result, anger management has become the
topic of many self-help books, but there is currently no
book that brings together for practitioners and scholars
the diversity of therapies used to treat anger in
various populations. Treatments for Anger in Specific
Populations provides information and instruction on
empirically supported interventions for anger in various
clinical contexts, including substance abuse, PTSD, the
intellectually disabled, borderline personality
disorder, children and adolescents, and others. Ten
chapters focus on specific populations, while two
additional chapters discuss gender and culturally
sensitive considerations in anger treatment. An
introductory chapter by the volume editor, Ephrem
Fernandez, outlines the main therapeutic approaches to
anger, summarizing the boundaries between adaptive and
maladaptive anger and providing a rationale for
tailoring anger treatments to specific populations. For
each population-specific chapter, authors provide
theoretical background and literature review, followed
by findings on the efficacy of each treatment. Each
treatment evaluated is also clearly described in terms
of clinical procedure. Further, each chapter contains a
clinical case vignette illustrating the application of
particular treatments to particular clients. Where
appropriate, discussions of emerging and as-yet untested
therapies are included. Treatments for Anger in Specific
Populations is a resource to be treasured by clinicians
who work regularly with anger problems and anger
disorders, and the volume's careful balance of research
review with important information about treatment
application will also render it useful to scientists
interested in anger.
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