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The explosive child a new approach for understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children

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"Now in a revised and updated 6th edition, the groundbreaking, research-based approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other challenging behaviors, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field. What's an explosive child? A child who...

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Main Author: Greene, Ross W. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper, [2021]
Edition:Sixth edition.
Subjects:
Problem children.
Behavior disorders in children.
Child rearing.
Parent and child.
Parenting.
Conduct disorders in children.
Self-help publications.
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Summary:"Now in a revised and updated 6th edition, the groundbreaking, research-based approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other challenging behaviors, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field. What's an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration--crying, screaming, swearing, kicking, hitting, biting, spitting, destroying property, and worse. A child whose frequent, severe outbursts leave his or her parents feeling frustrated, scared, worried, and desperate for help. Most of these parents have tried everything-reasoning, explaining, punishing, sticker charts, therapy, medication--but to no avail. They can't figure out why their child acts the way he or she does; they wonder why the strategies that work for other kids don't work for theirs; and they don't know what to do instead. Dr. Ross Greene, a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the treatment of kids with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges, has worked with thousands of explosive children, and he has good news: these kids aren't attention-seeking, manipulative, or unmotivated, and their parents aren't passive, permissive pushovers. Rather, explosive kids are lacking some crucial skills in the domains of flexibility/adaptability, frustration tolerance, and problem solving, and they require a different approach to parenting. Throughout this compassionate, insightful, and practical book, Dr. Greene provides a new conceptual framework for understanding their difficulties, based on research in the neurosciences. He explains why traditional parenting and treatment often don't work with these children, and he describes what to do instead. Instead of relying on rewarding and punishing, Dr. Greene's Collaborative Problem Solving model promotes working with explosive children to solve the problems that precipitate explosive episodes, and teaching these kids the skills they lack."--
Item Description:First edition published: 1998; fourth edition published: 2010.
Includes index.
Physical Description:xvii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN:9780063092464
0063092468
Author Notes:Ross W. Greene, Ph. D., is a clinical psychologist and originator of the Collaborative Proactive Solutions (CPS) approach. Dr. Greene is the founding director of the nonprofit Lives in the Balance, which provides vast free resources on the CPS model and advocates on behalf of kids with concerning behaviors and their caregivers. He was on the faculty at Harvard Medical School for more than twenty years and is on the faculties at Virginia Tech and the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. He also developed and was the executive producer of the award-winning documentary The Kids We Lose. Dr. Greene works extensively with families schools, inpatient psychiatry units, residential and juvenile detention facilities, and lectures widely throughout the world. He lives in Freeport, Maine.

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