Drama Workshops for Anger Management and Offending Behaviour

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  • JONATHAN M. FOX Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12926/6tnaj168

Keywords:

Anger

Abstract

Picking up this short volume on action methods for working with groups of angry clients, I was prepared for another superficial treatment that was heavy on clever recipes but short on quality ingredients. But I was wrong. Author James Thompson has published his manual for working with offenders, based on almost a decade of experience in Manchester, England. The volume includes a step-by-step description of two programs, "The Blagg! Offending Behaviour Workshop" and the "Pump! Anger Management Programme,"
which the author calls both applied theater and therapeutic group work. The manuals are set out clearly and with intelligence. Thompson fully expects readers to try putting the techniques in the book into practice.

References

James Thompson (1999). Drama Workshops for Anger Management and Offending Behaviour. London: Jessica Kingsley. 143 pp.

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Published

2026-01-23

Issue

Vol. 53 No. 1 (2000): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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Book Reviews

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