The Juvenile Justice Anger

​Management (JJAM) Treatment for Girls.

The JJR&R Lab developed, implemented, and evaluated the Juvenile Justice Anger Management (JJAM) Treatment for Girls, a manualized anger management intervention for use with female youth in residential post-adjudication facilities. The JJAM Treatment for Girls is an 8-week, 16-session, group intervention designed for 12-19-year-old girls in juvenile justice facilities. 

​Results of a randomized controlled trial indicated that JJAM successfully alleviated anger and reduced physical and relational aggression in this underserved and high-risk group.

JJAM was selected for inclusion as a "promising program" on the National Institute of Justice's CrimeSolutions.org website and in the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs Guide.
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The National Institute of Mental Health/National Institutes of Health (NIMH K23 MH070400) funded this project.

The JJAM facilitators' manual and youth workbooks will soon be publicly available, following publication by Oxford University Press.

Related Lab Publications

Goldstein, N. E. S., Giallella, C. L., Haney-Caron, E., Peterson, L., Serico, J., Kemp, K., Riggs Romaine, C., Zelechoski, A. D., Holliday, S. B., Kalbeitzer, R., Kelley, S. M., Hinz, H., Sallee, M., Pennacchia, D., Prelic, A., Burkard, C., Grisso, T., Heilbrun, K., Núñez, A., Leff, S., & Lochman., J. (2018). Juvenile Justice Anger Management (JJAM) Treatment for Girls: Results of a randomized controlled trial. Psychological Services, 15, 386-39.

Serico, J. M., NeMoyer, A., Goldstein, N. E. S., Houck, M., & Leff, S. S. (2018). A methodological study of order effects in reporting relational aggression experiences. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/0886260518760008.

Riggs Romaine, C., Kemp, K., Giallella, C. L., Goldstein, N. E. S., Serico, J., & Kelley, S. M. (in press). Can we hasten development? Effects of treatment on psychosocial maturity. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 

Goldstein, N. E. S., Serico, J. M., Riggs Romaine, C. L., Zelechoski, A. D., Kalbeitzer, R., Kemp, K., & Lane, C. (2013). Development of the Juvenile Justice Anger Management (JJAM) Treatment for Girls. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 20, 171-188. 

Goldstein, N. E. S., Kemp, K., Leff, S., & Lochman, J. (2012). Guidelines for adapting manualized treatments for use with specialized populations: A stepwise approach using anger management as a model. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 19, 385-401.

Goldstein, N. E. S., Dovidio, A., Kalbeitzer, R., Weil, J., & Strachan, M. (2007). An anger management intervention for female juvenile offenders: Results of a pilot study. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 7, 1-28

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