A Development of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescence’s Anger Management by Buddhist Peaceful Means

Abstract

This research aimed: 1. to create the adolescence’s anger management program by developing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy by Buddhist peaceful means, and 2. to present the results of adolescence’s anger management who getting adolescence’s anger management program. It is a mixed - method research designed. The experimental group is 20 secondary school students who having low – moderate anger management scale scores. The research tools are sets of adolescence’s anger management training, anger management questionnaires, mindfulness assessment together with mindfulness practice and anger management records, and the data analysis was done by two-way analysis of variance (Two-Way ANOVA: T-test, p-value).          

          The results of the study showed that the training program of Adolescence’s Anger Management developed by integrating Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Mindfulness, Yonisomanasikarn, Khanti and Metta for transforming anger to the power of creation by the training program that emphasizes students to learn and understand their own emotions, letting them exchange experiences, practice skills and do homework. This training program consists of 1 mindfulness activity and 10 anger management activities. It is found that the experimental group has the average scores from the anger management questionnaires and the mindfulness assessment higher than the before experiment and the controlled group with significant at level 0.01. This research found the new knowledge called R-E-S-T Model, i.e. R-Reasoned attention: the practice to reasoned think with Yonisomanasikarn , E-Encourages learning contribute experience. S-Satipatthana for knowing the arisen emotional feeling and the physical movement. The process of training practicing mindfulness in this research is divided into 3 phases, the initial phase (Start), the having mindfulness during proceeding (Strong) and the continuous practice of mindfulness (Strive), resulting the T-Transform anger with cultivating compassion and tolerance.