New Perspectives on Aggression Replacement Training
Practice, Research and Application
Chapter One
AGGRESSION REPLACEMENT TRAINING:
THE COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL CONTEXT
Clive R. Hollin
Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, UK
INTRODUCTION
Developed in the 1980s, the first complete publication of Aggression Replacement
Training (ART) in 1987, by Arnold Goldstein and Barry Glick, saw the formulation
of a multimodal approach to working with aggressive offenders. Utilized on an
increasingly wide basis throughout the 1990s, the accumulated outcome evidence
shows that ART is an effective method by which to reduce aggressive behavior
(Goldstein & Glick, 1996). The latest text offering a revised edition of the program
(Goldstein, Glick, & Gibbs, 1998) details and refines the three components that
make up ART: these three components, delivered sequentially, are Skillstreaming,
Anger Control Training, and Moral Reasoning Training.
Skillstreaming involves the teaching of skills that serve to displace the out-of-control
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