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Peer reviewedSabatino, David A. – Reclaiming Children and Youth: Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, 1997
Discusses how conceptualizing anger control as a necessary survival skill for angry and aggressive youth is more productive than diagnosing these youth with labels like conduct disorders. Anger management programs should promote the ideas that angry persons need to trust others and that they have the ability to control their lives. (RJM)
Descriptors: Anger, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring, Emotional Problems
Valore, Thomas G.; Cantrell, Robert P.; Cantrell, Mary Lynn – Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-based Interventions, 2006
Educational and treatment programs for troubled youth face formidable barriers in building pro-social group climates. When a youth is loyal to deviant peers, positive adult bonds are obstructed. Fritz Redl once observed that therapeutic efforts with such a youth is akin to having a "gang under the couch." Effective ecological interventions employ…
Descriptors: Competence, Social Environment, Behavior Modification, Youth

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