Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : The anger-aggression relation / Timothy A. Cavell and Kenya T. Malcolm -- Anger dysregulation / Raymond W. Novaco -- Effective anger treatments require a functional analysis of the anger response / Ray DiGiuseppe, Carol Cannella, and Jill Kelter -- Finding a useful model for the treatment of anger and aggression / Howard Kassinove -- Anger : causes and components / Eddie A. Harmon-Jones and Cindy Harmon-Jones -- The pseudo-psychology of venting in interventions for anger and related conditions : implications for mental health practice / Bunmi O. Olatunji, Jeffery M. Lohr, and Brad J. Bushman -- Contributions of emotion focused therapy to the understanding and treatment of anger and agggression / Sandra Paivio and Marc Carriere -- Anger in psychotherapy : to express or not to express? That is the question / Leslie S. Greenberg and Jeannette Bischkopf -- The roles of anger, conflict with parents and peers, and social reinforcement in the early development of physical aggression / Jim Snyder ... [et al.] -- Anger and aggression : a developmental perspective / Karen L. Bierman -- Multisystemic treatment of violent youth and their families / Charles Borduin -- The anger-aggression relation in violent children and adolescents / Julie Hubbard ... [et al.] -- Anger and anger attacks as precipitants of aggression : what we can learn from child physical abuse / Oommen Mammen ... [et al.] -- The association between anger and male perpetration of intimate partner violence / Amy Holtzworth-Munroe and Kahni Clements -- When family values clash with therapists' goals and methods of treatment delivery / Sandra T. Azar and Kerry Makin-Byrd -- Understanding anger : key concepts from the field of domestic violence and child abuse / David Wolfe.