Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in the Treatment of Anger: A Meta-Analysis

By Richard Beck, E. Fernandez. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. A. Day
2. Nicola Graham-Kevan
3. A. Beck
4. K. Howells
5. J. Skeem
6. R. Novaco
7. Michael A. Saini
8. G. Glancy

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. J. Archer
2. A. Beck
3. A. Day
4. Andrew C. Butler
5. Evan M. Forman
6. Michael A. Saini
7. R. Novaco
8. G. Glancy

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. A. Beck
2. J. Archer
3. A. Day
4. Julian Walker
5. Andrew C. Butler
6. Evan M. Forman
7. J. Bright
8. Michael A. Saini

Citations in the corpus

• VIOLENCE RISK ASSESSMENT: Getting Specific About Being Dynamic (2005, background): “Meta-analytic ( R. Beck & Fernandez, 1998; Edmondson & Conger, 1996) and other reviews (Deffenbacher, Oetting, & DiGiuseppe, 2002) suggest that anger declines as a result of anger management and related treatment.”
• A systematic review and meta-analysis on the effectiveness of CBT informed anger management (2015, background): “…to determine the effectiveness of psychological therapies and cognitive behavioral interventions specifically on problematic anger; Tafrate (1995); Bowman Edmondson and Cohen Conger (1996); Beck and Fernandez (1998); Di Guiseppe and Tafrate (2003); Del Vecchio and O'Leary (2004) and Saini (2009).”
• False inflated self-esteem and violence: a systematic review and cognitive model (2009, background): “The particular emphasis in recent decades has been on anger management as the best available treatment approach, with growing empirical evidence in support (Beck & Fernandez, 1998 ) which is nonetheless limited by the quality of studies (Walker & Bright, 2008 ).”
• Does Controlling Behavior Predict Physical Aggression and Violence to Partners? (2008, background): “Cognitive-behavioral treatments (CBT) have been found to be effective in reducing angry acting out (see Beck and Fernandez 1998; Edmondson and Conger 1996; Tafrate 1995 for meta-analytic reviews), even in forensic populations (Novaco 1997).”
• The empirical status of cognitive-behavioral therapy: a review of meta-analyses. (2006, background): “Beck and Fernandez ( 1998 ) reviewed 50 outcome studies on anger covering a total of 1640 subjects , many of whom were in programs for violent offenders .”
• Handbook of cognitive-behavioral therapies (2009, neutral): “Bisson et al. did not find evidence to support the use of “other therapies” for PTSD, but they did find limited evidence for the use of SM and group CBT. Seidler and Wagner (2006) sought to clarify the relative efficacy of TFCBT and EMDR through a meta- analysis of seven studies.”
• Brief anger management programs with offenders: Outcomes and predictors of change (2005, background): “Five published meta-analytic studies have also all suggested that anger management is effective, with at least moderate effect sizes (Beck & Fernandez, 1998; Del Vecchio & O’Leary, 2004; DiGiuseppe & Tafrate, 2003; Edmondson & Conger, 1996; Sukhodolsky, Kassinove, & Gorman, 2004).”
• Anger and Psychopathology (2010, background): “However, six meta-analyses on the effectiveness of psychotherapy for anger have been published (Beck & Fernandez, 1998; Del Vecchio & O’Leary, 2004; DiGuiseppe & Tafrate, 2003; Edmonson & Conger, 1996; Sukhodolsky, Kassinove, & Gorman, 2004; Tafrate, 1995), which overall have found medium to strong…”
• The effectiveness of school-based anger interventions and programs: A meta-analysis (2005, background): “Most programs tend to be multicomponent in nature, and the large majority of anger treatment outcome studies use a cognitive-behavioral approach (CBT, Beck & Fernandez, 1998).”
• Mindfulness and the treatment of anger problems (2009, background): “To date, six metaanalytic reviews of anger treatment have been published (Beck & Fernandez, 1998; Del Vecchio & O'Leary, 2004; DiGiuseppe & Tafrate, 2003; Edmonson & Conger, 1996; Sukhodolsky, Kassinove, & Gorman, 2004; Tafrate, 1995), each of which reaches broadly similar conclusions: that anger…”
• An Evidenced-Based Review of Psychological Treatments of Anger and Aggression (2005, background): “In an attempt to improve on the methodological limitations of the 2 previous studies, Beck and Fernandez (1998) expanded their inclusion criteria to include children and adolescents, unpublished doctoral dissertations, and studies that used single-group pre-to-post designs. This expanded inclusion c”
• Principles of Empirically Supported Interventions Applied to Anger Management (2002, background): “Recent meta-analyses of CBT interventions (see discussion of Principle 3 for detail) show that mean effect sizes for CBT interventions differ significantly from 0.0 and that the average CBT client fared better than 76% of control participants (Beck & Fernandez, 1998).”