title: Anger intervention.
abstract: This article compares and contrasts psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioral approaches to anger intervention. Related research is discussed and a cognitive-behavioral model of anger intervention is presented. The model views anger as an affective stress reaction consisting of four factors: physiological arousal, antagonistic cognitions, environmental stimuli, and behavioral reactions. The article also examines occupational therapy assessment and treatment goals on the basis of the cognitive-behavioral model and recommends stress management activities and techniques for helping clients control the factors that mediate their anger.
authors.affiliation: Division of Occupational Therapy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-7120.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D000786:Anger; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009788:Occupational Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000628:therapy