Integrating Leadership Skills into Anger Management Groups to Reduce Aggressive Behaviors: The LIT Model.

Mental health counselors encounter numerous complex situations when working with children and adolescent's in anger management groups. This study promotes the use of Social Cognitive Theory to reduce cognitive distortions and aggressive behavior in youth. Specifically, it highlights Leadership Implementation Training (LIT), a youth-oriented model that integrates leadership skills into school-based anger management groups with the intent of reducing aggression in angry youth. Initial data suggest that doing so is an effective tool for mental health counselors who facilitate groups in schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]