It is a multimodal program that has three components: social skills, anger control training and moral reasoning.
[1][2] ART was developed in the United States in the 1980s by Arnold P. Goldstein and Barry Glick and is now used throughout North America as well as Europe, South America, and Australia in human services systems including juvenile justice systems, human services schools and adult corrections.
In Washington, ART was added as one of the four different evidence based programs implemented due to the 1997 Community Justice Accountability Act.
Many youths with criminal behavior and/or have difficulties controlling their anger lack social skills.
Then the facilitator demonstrates a situation to give the youth a picture of how to perform the skill.
Once again, one segment of the anger control chain is taught each week and then both the facilitators and the youth practice the new skills with relevant life activities.
The anger control chain is as follows; Moral reasoning is the cognitive component of ART.
This component provides adolescents opportunities to take other perspectives other than their own thereby learning to view their world in a more fair and equitable way.