Cann - treatment CBT for offenders. Offenders' anger control classes help make some more dangerous. Anger management courses for convicted armed robbers, wife beaters and stalkers are being axed by the prison and probation services following an official inquiry into the murder of the city financier John Monckton.
Home Office instructions sent to the probation service say that anger management courses are counterproductive and actually help violent offenders who make premeditated attacks to manipulate the situation to their advantage. In a move to ensure that probation staff also do the basics of their job properly, the home secretary, Charles Clarke, will today address a meeting of more than 800 probation service managers to demand a much sharper focus on high-risk offenders. He is also expected to make a renewed attempt to persuade the crisis-hit probation service to back his controversial public sector reform programme. The Home Office has said Mr Clarke "will not be reading the riot act", despite the recent scandals. Anger management - does it work? Anger management is the least celebrated branch of the cognitive therapy tree; its main reputation is as a quasi-scientific means of controlling stroppy supermodels who've shouted at the stylist once too often.
Naomi Campbell, I mean - not all supermodels are like this. Unlike cognitive training for anxiety and depression, with which it shares all the same principles and most of the same techniques, this tends to be the kind of therapy to which you are referred by an institution, rather than deciding upon yourself. I can't with complete certainty say why, but ultimately anger, unless it manifests itself in violence, is not thought of as a mental disorder that adversely affects the quality of your life. Ireland. Wheatley.