Testing the Effects of a Virtual Reality Game for Aggressive Impulse Management: A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial among Forensic Psychiatric Outpatients

Prior laboratory experiments among healthy samples found that training avoidance movements to angry faces may lower anger and aggression, especially people high in trait anger. To enrich this training and make it more suitable for clinical applications, the present researchers developed it into a Virtual Reality Game for Aggressive Impulse Management (VR-GAIME). The current study examined the effects of this training in a randomized controlled trial among forensic psychiatric outpatients with aggression regulation problems (N = 30). In addition to the aggression replacement training, patients played either the VR-GAIME or a control game. Aggressive behavior was measured pre-, half-way, and post-treatment via self-report and clinicians ratings. No difference was found between the VR-GAIME and the control game. However, the participants reported gaining more insight into their own behavior and that of others. Future VR intervention tools in clinical settings may capitalize more on their benefits for self-reflection within interpersonal settings.

The ART of apologizing: Entering the black box of an intervention program

During recent decades, evidence-based treatment programs have become a given part of the youth justice system. Typically, such programs are evaluated through quantitative effect studies, in which a variety of outcome measures play a significant role. This case study offers an alternative, interactional evaluation of a treatment program. More specifically, the analysis focuses on an Aggression Replacement Training (ART) session that was held at a youth detention home in Sweden. In this session, two trainers and three detained adolescent boys perform an exercise that serves to teach the latter various apology practices. A detailed, conversation analytic examination of the interaction in the session shows that the trainers repeatedly problematize the boys’ contributions in a kind of deviant-making enterprise. Thus, rather than recognizing competencies that do become visible through closer inspection, the trainers one-sidedly highlight lack and deficiency. It is argued that the interpretative frame of ART, with its focus on pathologization, individualization, and responsibilization, amplifies the incarcerated boys’ deviancy, hence symbolically locking them up in a second, non-material or discursive, sense.

Social pedagogical perspectives on fidelity to a manual: Professional principles and dilemmas in everyday expertise

Manualised interventions, in use across the UK for decades and increasingly in use in Denmark, aim to support change through professional practitioners following detailed prescriptions of what they must do to affect a particular change in the target group. Social pedagogy, a strong professional tradition in Denmark and an emerging profession in the UK, takes an approach that responds to the individual’s experience of the immediate situation, seeks to nurture relational opportunities and to empower people to fully participate in their lives and society. Harbo’s research reveals that this approach can be at odds with manualised interventions for a variety of reasons. A social pedagogically informed programme has been developed in London that uses a clear ethical stance and key theories as its foundation, and upon which structures have been developed, but no manual. This article explores the use of these manualised and non-manualised interventions in Denmark and the UK and the roles of social pedagogues in supporting change through programmatic interventions. Harbo’s doctoral research findings on practice surrounding the highly prescriptive manual Aggression Replacement Training in Denmark ( Harbo, 2019 ) is explored alongside Kemp’s reflections on the social pedagogically informed Family Learning Intervention Programme in England, examining the tensions and synergies that emerge around each programme when they meet reality and the individual characteristics of day-to-day situations. The perspectives presented emerge from practice research and reflections, and as such are based in an experiential research tradition. Finally, we draw together our learning and openings for further research and policy development.

Student Development

Chapter 4 shifts the focus to student development in terms of social, behavioral, and emotional development through the use of restorative practices. A discussion of leadership skills in students is presented, along with an overview of Aggression Replacement Training, which assists students in developing conflict resolution strategies. An examination of student perceptions related to learning from mistakes and being provided an opportunity for a second chance is presented. The chapter concludes with a discussion of meeting students where they are academically to further promote their continued academic progress and success.

Karakteristik Perilaku Agresif Remaja pada Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan

Masa remaja merupakan masa transisi dan akan memperlihatkan perilaku yang unik dan mengalami kesulitan mengelola emosi dan perilaku, sehingga salah satunya akan menyebabkan perilaku agresif. Berbagai dampak dapat terjadi akibat perilaku agresif yaitu seperti menurunnya prestasi belajar, hubungan sosial tidak baik, kecemasan, depresi dan bunuh diri. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui gambaran karakteristik perilaku agresif remaja berdasarkan aspek agresi fisik, verbal, kemarahan dan permusuhan pada sekolah menengah kejuruan “X di Kota Padang. Penelitian merupakan jenis penelitian kuantitatif dengan desain deskriptif. Teknik pengambilan sampel yaitu proportional random sampling dengan jumlah sampel sebanyak 164 siswa. Pengumpulan data perilaku agresif dengan menggunakan Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire Scale. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan rerata perilaku agresif remaja 86,74. Rerata aspek agresi fisik 26,98, agresi verbal 14,58, kemarahan 20,44 dan permusuhan 24,75. Perilaku agresif remaja sekolah menengah kejuruan di kota Padang cenderung tinggi dengan karakteristik yaitu permusuhan dan agresi fisik. Diharapkan perawat jiwa untuk memberikan latihan asertif, rational emotive behaviour therapy dan aggression replacement training pada remaja yang mengalami perilaku agresif. Kata kunci: remaja, perilaku agresif, kecemasan THE AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR CHARACTERISTIC OF ADOLESCENT AT VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL ABSTRACTAdolescent is a transition period and will show unique behavior and have difficulty in managing emotions and behavior so one of the effects is causing aggressive behavior. Various impacts can occur due to aggressive behavior, such as low learning achievement, bad social relations, anxiety, depression and suicide. This study aimed to describe the aggressive behavior characteristic of adolescent at vocational high school “X” in Padang City. This study was quantitative research with descriptive design. The samples were chosen by proportional random sampling technique with a total sample of 164 students. The data of aggressive behavior were collected by using the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire Scale. The results indicated that the average aggressive behavior of adolescent 86.74. The average phsycal aggression aspect is 26.98, verbal aggression is 14.58, anger is 20.44 and hostility is 24.75. Aggressive behavior of adolescent at vocational high school tended to be high with characteristic is hostility and phsycal aggression. It is expected that psychiatric nurses can provide assertive training, rational emotive behavior therapy and aggression replacement training for adolescent who experience aggressive behavior. Keywords: adolescent, aggressive behavior, anxiety

Reducing Aggressive Behavior of Adolescent with Using the Aggression Replacement Training

<em>Adolescent is a transition period from childhood, therefore adolescents will show unique behavior and experience various difficulties in managing their emotions so that one of them will lead to aggressive behavior. Various impacts can occur due to aggressive behavior such as decreased learning achievement, bad social relations, anxiety, depression, and suicide. The goals of this study were to identify aggression replacement training can reduce aggressive behavior in adolescents. The design of this research is quasi experiment design and research design of one group pre-test post-test and sampling technique using purposive sampling. The population in this study were adolescents in vocational high school “X” in Padang city with a sample of 43 adolescents. Data were analyzed by using paired T-Test with significant value α=0,005. The results showed before giving aggression replacement training the average aggressive behavior of adolescents is 86.86 and after the average is 76.93. So it shows there is a significant difference in aggressive behavior between before and after given of aggression replacement training to adolescents. The influence aggression replacement training can reduce aggressive behavior in adolescents. The results of this study can be applied by psychiatric nurses for adolescents with aggressive behavior.</em>

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Justice-Involved Youth: The Effect of Trauma and Programming on Different Recidivistic Outcomes

Studies have demonstrated that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are prevalent in justice-involved youth and related to recidivism. However, the effect of programming on reducing reoffending for youth with a trauma history is not well researched. This study aims to examine the prevalence of ACEs across different subsets of justice-involved youth, as well as the impact of family-based programming and aggression replacement training (ART) for youth exposed to ACEs. Presence of ACEs among 50,862 in Washington State is examined via multiple statistical tests. Results indicate that ACEs are prevalent in this sample, with higher ACE scores being associated with a greater risk of reoffending for different types of recidivism. Both family-based programming and ART had an impact on recidivism for males, while only completion of ART resulted in a decreased odds of reoffending for females. However, an intervention between programming and ACEs was nonsignificant, indicating that these particular interventions are not more beneficial for youth exposed to trauma than they are for the general justice-involved youth population. Findings outline the need to give ACEs serious consideration in the juvenile justice system, as these trauma experiences can inform case management and programming.