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LENCHANGER MANAGEMENTANGER management : DIAGNOSTICDIFFERENCES AND treatment IMPLICATIONSHEATHER C. LENCHUniversity of California, IrvineCourts are referring an increasing number of people to ANGER management treat-ment, yet there are very few available guidelines for how to diagnose and treat an-gry people. Indeed, ANGER does not exist as a DIAGNOSTIC category in the purpose of the present study was (a) to determine whether people referred foranger treatment met the DSM-IV criterion for other affective disorders that symp-toms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, orother important areas of functioning, and (b) to determine whether there were sig-nificant differences in the coping and ANGER expression styles utilized by angry ver-sus normal populations. A group of 114 college students and 66 people referred foranger management treatment completed the Life Experiences Questionnaire, theStrategic Approaches to Coping, the Trait ANGER Inventory, and the Revised-AngerExpression Inventory.

LENCHANGER MANAGEMENT ANGER MANAGEMENT: DIAGNOSTIC DIFFERENCES AND TREATMENT IMPLICATIONS HEATHER C. LENCH University of California, Irvine Courts are referring an increasing number of people to anger management treat-

  Management, Treatment, Ranges, Differences, Diagnostics, Anger management, Diagnostic differences and treatment