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ABSTRACT
A cognitive approach to anger management is applied to juvenile offenders using a model developed by the author and social work interns. The model, STOP, a six-session group intervention, is used with juvenile offenders with histories of violent criminal referrals to the juvenile court. Its effectiveness in reducing referrals in general, and violent referrals to the court system, is assessed. A comparison group from the same population is matched on age and gender and approximated on number of violent referrals. The results were evaluated using a student T-test and the effect of the treatment model STOP was not statistically significant, F(14, 7.88) = 2.819, p = .115. The author concludes that the offenders in the group were from a sample of the most severe cases involved in the court. However, given the limited sample size of 15 per group, it is suggested that further use of this model with other samples may provide more meaningful data for determining effect size. It appears that the offenders in the group constituted a sample of the most severe cases involved in the court.