AGGRESSION REPLACEMENT TRAINING - CURRICULUM AND EVALUATION

Aggression Replacement Training (ART) is a multimodal intervention des ign to alter the behavior of chronically aggressive youth. It consists of skillstreaming, designed to teach a broad curriculum of prosocial behavior, anger control training, a method for empowering youth to mod ify their own anger responsiveness, and moral reasoning training, to h elp motivate youth to employ the skills learned via the other componen ts. The authors present a series of efficacy evaluations, which combin e to suggest that ART is an impactful intervention. With considerable reliability, it appears to promote skills acquisition and performance, improve anger control. decrease the frequency of acting-out behaviors , and increase the frequency of constructive, prosocial behaviors. Bey ond institutional walls, its effects persist. In general, its potency appears to be sufficiently adequate that its continued implementation and evaluation with chronically aggressive youngsters is clearly warra nted.