Coping With Aggressive Behaviour (Glyms M.Breakwell)

Types
- Assertiveness:- Insisting on your rights or opinions
- Aggression:- Behaviour intended to harm or injure someone against his wishes
- Violence:- A delibrate attempt to inflict physical harm

Instrumental aggression/violence
- Primarily a means towards some other ends

Emotional aggression/violence
- Doing damage is an end itself
- Any instrumental value is purely at psychological level.

3 types of explanation for violence
(1) The instinct explanation
- Human is violent in nature
- Release violence in different ways eg.sports, fights
- Aggression has survival value for the species

(2) Social/culture learning explanation
- Aggression is learnt
- Instrumental learning: Rewards awarded for violence done
- Observatory learning: Social modelling

(3) Aversive stimulation explanation
- Aggression is designed to reduce arousal levels by eradicating unpleasant stimulation

The violence cycle of behaviour (The assault cycle)
- Trigger
- Escalation
- Crisis
- Recovery
- Post-crisis depression phases