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Treating Explosive Kids | Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach | Ross W. Greene, J. Stuart Ablon

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	• Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach Ross W. Greene, J. Stuart Ablon The Guilford Press, 2005 - 246 pages average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Wonderful book for those working with difficult children

In this book I finally found an explanation for the frustrating behaviors of my child. Reading it changed the dynamics of our family and greatly improved our functioning. Many of the books on these children, including Dr. Greene's Explosive Child, provide descriptions of difficult behaviors and suggestions as to how to address these behaviors, but none provided a detailed explanation of what is happening for the child and how that creates these behaviors. This book is a must read for all parents, teachers, and providers who work with difficult children whose behaviors seem to defy the traditional explanations.

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Insightful and compassionate approach

I'm a clinical therapist with 18 years' experience. Several years ago I attended Dr. Green's training and was very impressed. So much in the mental health field, for working w/ behaviorally challenging kids and parents, focuses on rewards and consequences - basic behavioralism - which only works part of the time for part of the population. This is a wise and effective alternative, and one in consonance with what we're learning about why explosive kids are that way. My specialty areas are complex trauma and attachment disorders, which aren't mentioned as root causes for the difficulties in self-regulation skills for (I believe) a majority of explosive kids, which I think is an oversight. However, Dr. Green's creation of interventions which address the effects of these skill deficits remains an outstanding acheivement. His "Plan A, Plan B, Plan C" model is easily explained by clinicians and understood by parents. His model keeps parents empowered, gives them reasonable guidelines for which plan to use when, strengthens both kids' and parents' abilities to problem-solve in a connective, caring way, and gives kids hope for their own growth and change.

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Treating Explosive Kids

This book provides both an excellent treatise on easily-frustrated/highly explosive children from both a clinical and practical point of view. I especially appreciate the approach to helping these children from the viewpoint of their specific struggle instead of their "diagnosis" as ADHD, Bi-polar, Oppositional Defiant, etc. While those labels might be helpful in the short term, it does little to speak to actually helping them with their day to day difficulties. There is a sad dearth in helpful treatment for not only children, but adults with these needs. While new medications can and should be included in treatment, it is the relational context that either perpetuates the problem or in which healing is experienced. This book is highly recommended.

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Refreshing Ideas

Greene and Albon present some fantastic ideas about what makes kids behave the way they do and how to respond to them. It is a well written, thought provoking book. I found it to be an extremely easy read but loaded with conceptual richness. It is not an intellectual work as much as a wake up call to the understanding and treatment of children.

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.

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