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.