Anger Management in Sport : Understanding and Controlling Violence in Athlete...

Description: Anger Management in Sport : Understanding and Controlling Violence in Athletes, Hardcover by Abrams, Mitch, ISBN 0736061681, ISBN-13 9780736061681, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Abrams (UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) is a clinical administrator responsible for the delivery of mental health services for six of New Jersey's 13 state prisons. Based on working with athletes over the past 13 years, he argues that athletes are not convincingly more violent than non-athletes, but they do represent an at-risk population that can benefit from learning specific anger management skills. Coverage includes major theories on anger and aggression in sport; the history of violence in sport; the athlete culture; how anger management skills are performance enhancing in sport and in life; "how-to" specifics of an anger management program for athletes; mental illness and violence in sport; drugs, violence, and sport; individual vs. group interventions; and prevention of sexual violence. For academics, researchers, and practitioners at all levels of sport who work with athletes and anger. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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