The Effectiveness of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy to Decrease Aggressive Behavior in a Child with Alopecia

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10.2991/iciap-18.2019.2How to use a DOI?

Keywords

aggressive behavior, anger management, rational emotive behavior therapy, alopecia in children.

Abstract

Anger often serves as a defense mechanism when handling conflict. It can also occur as part of the pathology of physical illness, and someone who has not been able to accept disfiguring symptoms such as alopecia may exhibit aggressive behavior. For the current research subject, alopecia led to bullying and mocking by those around him. The continual mistreatment led to anxiety for the research subject. He often thought negatively towards people who approached him and believed that they were judging him negatively. For example, when someone asked about the hat he was wearing, the participant immediately suspected that the person was mocking his baldness. The anger that the subject often felt was expressed eventually through aggressive behavior. Therefore, it became necessary to provide an intervention that the child could use to manage his anger and reduce his aggressive behavior. An intervention protocol using Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy was applied to the situation, and it was effective in training the research subject in anger management techniques and in decreasing aggressive behaviors.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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