Cognitive-behavioral intervention with aggressive boys: three-year follow-up and preventive effects.
This study examined the longer term preventive effects of a school-based intervention with boys referred by classroom teachers as highly aggressive and disruptive. Three years after intervention, boys who had received an anger coping (AC) program were compared with a group of untreated boys. The AC boys had lower rates of drug and alcohol involvement and had higher levels of self-esteem and social problem-solving skills. The AC boys were not significantly different from previously nonaggressive boys on these variables at follow-up. Although the overall intervention did not have longer term effects on delinquency rates or classroom behavior, a subset of boys who also received booster sessions did display maintenance of certain classroom behavior improvement. Implications for intensification of cognitive-behavioral interventions are discussed.
Lochman
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Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept