Understanding Clinical Anger and Violence: The Anger Avoidance Model Export

@article{citeulike:4434678, abstract = {Although anger is a primary emotion and holds clear functional necessities, the presence of anger and its behavioral manifestations of aggression/violence can have serious emotional, health, and social consequences. Despite such consequences, the construct of clinical anger has to date suffered from few theoretical and treatment advancements and has received insufficient research attention. Thus, the purpose of this article is to introduce the Anger Avoidance Model, which is a new conceptualization of clinical anger and its behavioral manifestations. The Anger Avoidance Model suggests that among anger patients, a chronic early aversive history leads to information processing biases and emotion regulation deficits, which in turn result in intense efforts to avoid the experience of anger. This avoidance takes the form of hostile rumination (cognitive avoidance) and aggressive and violent behavior (behavioral avoidance). This model holds clear implications for research and treatment of this challenging clinical phenomenon. 10.1177/0145445508319282}, author = {Gardner, Frank L. and Moore, Zella E.}, citeulike-article-id = {4434678}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0145445508319282}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://bmo.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/32/6/897}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18614696}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18614696}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/0145445508319282}, journal = {Behav Modif}, keywords = {aggression, anger, avoidance, emotion, psychopathology, review}, month = {November}, number = {6}, pages = {897--912}, posted-at = {2009-04-29 16:09:19}, priority = {4}, title = {Understanding Clinical Anger and Violence: The Anger Avoidance Model}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0145445508319282}, volume = {32}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4434678 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4434678 N2 - Although anger is a primary emotion and holds clear functional necessities, the presence of anger and its behavioral manifestations of aggression/violence can have serious emotional, health, and social consequences. Despite such consequences, the construct of clinical anger has to date suffered from few theoretical and treatment advancements and has received insufficient research attention. Thus, the purpose of this article is to introduce the Anger Avoidance Model, which is a new conceptualization of clinical anger and its behavioral manifestations. The Anger Avoidance Model suggests that among anger patients, a chronic early aversive history leads to information processing biases and emotion regulation deficits, which in turn result in intense efforts to avoid the experience of anger. This avoidance takes the form of hostile rumination (cognitive avoidance) and aggressive and violent behavior (behavioral avoidance). This model holds clear implications for research and treatment of this challenging clinical phenomenon. 10.1177/0145445508319282 IS - 6 JF - Behav Modif EP - 912 TI - Understanding Clinical Anger and Violence: The Anger Avoidance Model VL - 32 SP - 897 KW - aggression KW - anger KW - avoidance KW - emotion KW - psychopathology KW - review AU - Gardner, Frank AU - Moore, Zella PY - 2008/11/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0145445508319282 ER -