Aggression Replacement Training is a program for aggressive adolescents and young children that is administered by teachers or school counselors. The program seeks to enhance interpersonal skills, self-mediated ability to control anger and a youth's concern for rights and needs of others.

The goal of the program is to improve psychological skill competence, anger control and moral reasoning and social problem -solving skills. The intervention consists of skill streaming, anger-control training, and training in moral reasoning. Skill streaming utilizes modeling, role-playing, performance feedback and generalization training to teach the curriculum of pro-social skills. The rationale behind the program is to arm students with whatever is needed to behave in constructive , non aggressive and still-satisfying ways in school, at home and in the community. Many youths are skilled in fighting, bullying and intimidating , harassing, and manipulating others. However they frequently have inadequate skills in more socially desirable behaviors such as negotiating differences, dealing appropriately with accusations, and responding effectively to failure, teasing, rejection or anger. The curriculum has been offered in a variety of lengths and each session include skill streaming,anger-control training and training in moral reasoning. The program has been implemented in schools and delinquency and mental health settings. Evaluation demonstrated decreasing anger levels in response to minor anger-provoking situations and increasing pro-social skills and social skills knowledge.

Source: Virginia Best Practices in School-Based Violence Prevention.