Treating Explosive Kids (the Collaborative Problem-solving Approach)

By (author) Greene Ross W.; By (author) Ablon, J. Stuart
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Provides a framework for individualized intervention with highly oppositional children and their families. This book includes many examples to show how to identify the specific cognitive factors that contribute to explosive behaviour, remediate these factors, and teach children and their adult caregivers how to solve problems collaboratively.
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The first comprehensive presentation for clinicians of the groundbreaking approach popularized in Ross Greene''s acclaimed parenting guide, The Explosive Child, this book provides a detailed framework for effective, individualized intervention with highly oppositional children and their families. Many vivid examples and Q&A sections show how to identify the specific cognitive factors that contribute to explosive and noncompliant behavior, remediate these factors, and teach children and their adult caregivers how to solve problems collaboratively. The book also describes challenges that may arise in implementing the model and provides clear and practical solutions. Two special chapters focus on intervention in schools and in therapeutic/restrictive facilities.

Table of contents:

1. Explosive Children and Adolescents: The Need for a Different Paradigm
2. Identifying Pathways and Triggers
3. Options for Handling Problems: Three Plans
4. Plan B Basics
5. Beyond the Basics
6. Skills Trained with Plan B
7. Collaborative Problem Solving in Schools
8. Collaborative Problem Solving in Therapeutic/Restrictive Settings
9. Last Call
10. Epilogue: Beyond Explosive Kids

Review quote:

“Greene and Ablon have done it again. This book illustrates their clinical acumen, conceptual sophistication, and scientific rigor--all at the same time! This is an uncommonly useful book for students and for therapists at all levels of experience. The authors'' collaborative problem-solving approach takes into consideration the delicate dance between poorly regulated children and their frustrated and sometimes poorly equipped parents. These children and their families require special interventions, and this innovative book goes a long way to helping us in our clinical practice, teaching, and research.”--Thomas H. Ollendick, PhD, Child Study Center and Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech

Provocative, conceptually grounded, and clinically wise. The CPS approach looks at a range of common, vexing parent-child problems and applies sound individual and family strategies, innovatively framed in the context of children''s deficits in executive functions, communication, and emotion regulation. Loaded with case examples, this is essential reading for all those who work with ''externalizing'' children.--Stephen P. Hinshaw, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley

This cutting-edge book provides a practical and easily understood guide for treating explosive children and adolescents. It presents an innovative, compassionate model that is very helpful in improving the quality of life for these kids and those who care for them. --Michael S. Jellinek, MD, Child Psychiatry Service, Massachusetts General Hospital; Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Greene and Ablon''s CPS approach is an excellent integration of theory, research, and clinical wisdom. The authors present a thoughtful clinical framework and specific procedures for interpreting and managing children''s explosive, noncompliant behavior. This book belongs on the bookshelf of every clinician who works with these youngsters.--Howard Abikoff, PhD, Institute for Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity and Behavior Disorders, NYU Child Study Center
- Ross Greene and J. Stuart Ablon...have elegantly translated neuropsychologists'' perspective of how children orga