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1. Social Psychology
Presentation
On
Aggression:
Prevention and
Control

2. Submitted By –Komal
BA 2nd Year
Roll No.-197024
Session 2019-20
Hindu Girls College, Sonipat
Submitted To-
Dr. Bindu
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology

3. Definitions of Aggression
1) The Intent To Harm Someone.
- Burkowitz
2) Intent To Harm Someone But The
Target Wants To Avoid.
- Miller &Dollard
3) The Intentional Infliction Of Some
Form Of Harm On Others.
- Baron & Byrne

4. Prevention
• Punishment
• Catharsis
• Observation of non aggressive models
• Writing therapy
• Displacement
• Judicious early childhood training
• Good parental model
• Teaching of discipline and morality

5. • Control of parental aggression
. Training to tolerate frustration
• Guided imagery therapy
• Art (Aggression Replacement Therapy)

6. 1) Punishment
It is widely used to control aggression. Punishment is
the procedure in which aversive consequences are
delivered to the persons when they engage in
aggressive acts.
2) Catharsis
It is the reduction of aggressive arousal brought about by
performing aggressive acts. it states that if the person gives vent
to their anger and hostility in non harmful ways, their
tendencies to engage in aggressive act decrease in future.

7. 3) Observation of non aggressive
models
Aggression can be reduced effectively by allowing them to observe
models who behave in a restrained and non aggressive manner in
the face of provocation. This can be effectively done by the T.V and
movie industries.
4) Writing Therapy
Daily diary writing is a kind of writing therapy. That is why said
diary writing is maintained by mentally ill persons. By this
technique hostile feeling can be relieved without target of
aggression.

8. 5) Displacement
Aggression of children can be relieved through
displacement or transfer of aggression to some objects like
toy, doll or any non living object. Various experimental
studies indicates that when children are given the chance
to express their anger and aggression in course of their
growth, they become hostile afterwards.
6) Judicious Early Childhood
Training
Aggressive behavior can be prevented to some
extent by judicious early childhood training,
proper parental care, and adequate parenting
style. By trying to fulfill the basic needs of the
child, the child can be exposed to less frustration
inducing situations.

9. 7) Good Parental Model
The child should be exposed to good and normal
models. Parents should try their best not to
quarrel in the presence of a child. They should
try to be beet models for the child to imitate.
8) Teaching of Discipline and Morality
By training the child to be, disciplined and
develop positive values and morality a lot of
aggressive behaviour can be controlled.
Parents and teachers have to play an active
role in this regard.

10. 9) Control of Parental Aggression
It is very often said that angry parents have angry children.
So parents must try to control their frequent anger,
irritation and hostility. Children should be taught that there
are other non aggressive reactions to frustration which can
be used while reacting to a frustrating situation. Parents
must try to be an ideal model for their children.
10) Training to Tolerate Frustration
Instead of fulfilling all the required and unnecessary
wishes of the child under certain cases, he should be
trained to tolerate frustration. Frustration tolerance can
be generated in the child by not fulfilling whatever he
wishes. The genuine needs should be no doubt fulfilled.

11. 11) Guided Imagery Therapy
Guided imagery is a cognitive behavioral technique in which a
client is guided in imagining a relaxing scene of experiences. The
usefulness of guided imagery techniques have been shown to be
effective in helping individuals learn or modify behaviors such as:
• learning to relax.
• Changing or controlling their negative emotions.
• Increasing effective pain management.
• Learning new and desirable behaviors.
• Eliminating or reducing undesirable behaviors

12. 12) ART (Aggression Replacement
Therapy)
Aggression replacement therapy is a cognitive
behavioural intervention for reduction of
aggressive and violent behaviour, originally
focused on adolescents. It is a multimodal
program that has three components; Social skills,
Anger Control Training and Moral Reasoning.

13. 1) Social Skills
Teaches participants what to do, helping them replace
antisocial behaviours with positive alternatives.
2) Anger Control
Teaches participants what not to do, helping them
respond to anger in a nonaggressive manner and rethink
anger-provoking situations.
3) Moral Reasoning
Helps raise participants level of fairness, justice and
concern for the needs and rights of others.