Understanding Aggression in Treating Emotionally Disturbed Youths (From Assaultive Youth: Responding to Physical Assaultiveness in Residential, Community and Health Care Settings, P 29-48, 1987, Joel Kupfersmid and Roberta Monkman, eds. -- See NCJ-114536)

• NCJ Number: 114537
• Author(s): D M Wonderly; S L Rosenberg
• Date Published: 1987
• Length: 20 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

The role of aggression as a positive force, of hostility as a reaction to morally based frustration, and of sadism as an expression of desperate meaninglessness are developed.

Abstract

Diagnostic indicators and examples of preventive as well as ameliorative treatment techniques are provided. (Author abstract)