ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an outline of the effectiveness of aggression intervention and the components. It focuses on interventions that can be applied at the person level and provides outline of core approaches to intervention, which can be separated broadly into pharmacotherapy and psychological therapies, before moving onto the core elements to consider. The motivation for aggression is an ultimate treatment target since this informs the specific needs of the care pathway for aggression management. There are further complicating aspects to the use of pharmacotherapy to reduce aggression; for example, side effects can make it impossible to apply where there is a risk of physical health problems developing. Psychological therapies into violence remain popular in clinical practice, most notably those that address multiple components relevant to aggression. Mindfulness as an approach to treat aggression has grown in popularity in the past decade. Dialectical Behavioural Therapy in many ways represents a gold standard therapy for the acceptance, regulation, and management of emotions.
