Target Population: aggressive adolescents and young children
Contact: Arnold Goldstein
Center for Research on Aggression, Syracuse University
805 South Croise Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13244
Phone: 315/443-9641
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ART is a program for aggressive adolescents and young children that is administered by teachers or school counselors. The program seeks to enhance interpersonal skill competence, self-mediated ability to control anger, and a youth's concern for the rights and needs of others. Participating youth typically attend three one-hour long sessions for ten weeks during which they learn Skillstreaming, Anger Control Training, and Moral Reasoning Training. ART has been found to decrease anger levels in response to minor anger-provoking situations and increasing pro-social skills and social skills knowledge. The most statistically impressive results were found in decreased re-arrest rates with participating gang members.
US Department of Education, 2001, Promising Program