Date of Award
1980
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Roger C. Katz
First Committee Member
Martin T. Gipson
Second Committee Member
Kenneth L. Beauchamp
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a home-based multicomponent anger management program utilizing self-control procedures for: (a) decreasing frequencies of aversive parent behaviors directed toward target children and (b) altering parents'; angry feelings and subjective urges to physically harm their children in provocation situations. Abusive parents from three at-risk families were trained in the use of anger management skills tb aid them in coping with arousal on cognitive, somatic, and behavioral levels, simultaneously. Results indicated that the training procedures were successful in significantly reducing rates of aversive parent behavior exhibited in the home across all treated family units. The program also appeared successful for decreasing parents' angry urges and their daily rates of "feeling angry" when provoked by their children. These reductions in the parents' rates of aversive behavior and angry feelings following anger control training were maintained at stable levels over a 6 month follow-up period.
Pages
109
Recommended Citation
Nomellini, Sharlyne M.. (1980). Training abusive parents in the use of anger control procedures for improving parent-child interactions. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2036
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Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence Commons, Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, Psychology Commons
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