There is a need when working with mentally handicapped people to develop interventions that can be used within a self-control framework. One intervention that has demonstrated success in a self-control context with normally intelligent people is Cognitive Stress Inoculation Training (CSIT). In CSIT clients are taught to recognize current self-talk patterns that contribute to their stressful reactions and to change that self-talk so that it promotes more tranquil affect and more facilitative behavior. This study explored the viability of using CSIT with mentally handicapped people. A field study was conducted using subjects (N=10) who were residents in an urban residential treatment facility for mentally handicapped people. All subjects had at least one sensory impairment. The program was an adaptation of Stress Inoculation Training Program, presented within an instructional counseling context. In the first 3 weeks subjects were educated regarding the role of physiological arousal and self-talk in anger outbursts and generally prepared for the skill training that followed. Weeks 4 to 6 focused on acquiring skills for controlling anger. The last two sessions focused on switching to using anger control skills in the residential and work settings. Results suggest that CSIT was a useful strategy for teaching mentally handicapped people to control their anger outbursts and that the effects tended to persist after training was finished. (ABL)