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The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
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The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
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The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
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Children who exhibit explosive behavior may be prone to temper tantrums, verbal or physical aggressiveness, mood swings and noncompliance with parental directives. The Explosive Child by Dr. Ross Greene lays out a new approach for parenting inflexible, emotionally frustrated children based on a greater understanding of the causes behind the behavior and effective responses that are neither adversarial nor punitive.

Drawing upon the latest advances in neuroscience, Dr. Greene explains that the reasons behind the behavior are not that the children are attention getting, manipulative, unmotivated or seeking attention; rather the behavior stems from brain-based defects in two critical development skills, flexibility and frustration tolerance.

Dr. Greene served on the faculty at Harvard Medical School for over 20 years and is the originator of the Collaborative and Proactive Solutions (CPS) model discussed in his book. The model promotes working with behaviorally challenged children to solve the problems that lead to such outbreaks and teaching them the skills they lack.

These children require a different approach to parenting. This book helps parents find ways to defuse explosive situations, reduce tension and build a strong, emotionally secure bond with their child.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateMay 20, 2014
ISBN9780062339799
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The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
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Ross W. Greene, PhD

Ross W. Greene, Ph.D., is the originator of the Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) model described in this book, an approach he has researched extensively, along with colleagues throughout the world. Dr. Greene served on the faculty at Harvard Medical School for over 20 years, and is currently Founding Director of the non-profit Lives in the Balance and adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech. He consults extensively to families, schools, and therapeutic facilities and lectures widely internationally. Vast free resources on the CPS approach can be found on the Lives in the Balance website (www.livesinthebalance.org).

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    #120, 2006This is a FANTASTIC book, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who has a defiant or easily frustrated child. Just the beginning of the book alone was really helpful to me – the author believes that most children with the sorts of issues he describes in this book (ADD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, etc.) really are motivated to do well (in other words, it’s not just more discipline that is needed), and that they do well if they have the ability. If they are misbehaving, it’s likely because they don’t have the developmental skills to do any differently.Then, the author gives some strategies for making the child’s environment “User-friendlier,” to reduce the number of tantrums and other sorts of episodes, mostly through what is basically well-defined “choose your battles” system. I loved this book.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I found this book very useful. Behaviorally, relationally and problem solving/coping skill development with a developmental consideration made this book a very good book for parents.
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    If it works, it gets a fifth star.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    This book was a necessity and was rather helpful. Imagine a normal, intelligent child who is able to focus for the most part, but in certain instances explodes suddenly into a rage over trivial things. The Explosive Child tells the story of such children and gives explanations of how to deal with such children, why they may act in such a way, and how to recognize and prevent such occurrences before they get out of control.While you may think, "Oh no, another disorder to labe...moreThis book was a necessity and was rather helpful. Imagine a normal, intelligent child who is able to focus for the most part, but in certain instances explodes suddenly into a rage over trivial things. The Explosive Child tells the story of such children and gives explanations of how to deal with such children, why they may act in such a way, and how to recognize and prevent such occurrences before they get out of control.While you may think, "Oh no, another disorder to label children with," Dr. Greene clearly separates the inflexible/explosive child from the pack of dysfunctional children with such disorders as ADHD, tourettes, or autism. His methods for dealing with an inflexible/explosive child require more discipline for the adult than for the child, but are logical and effective. Consequences for misbehavior to a child who already knows they are acting in an unacceptable way, could be counter-productive to developing the skills required for dealing with their inflexibility to change. Greene shows you how to recognize the signs of a meltdown before the child loses all control and tells you how to counter it with empathy and understanding.This is a good book for all caregivers and teachers; especially those who work with preschool and grade school students. It is also important for any parent with a child that they have lost hope and patience for.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    This has been a helpful book to me, in dealing with an explosive eight-year-old boy.Empathizing, detailing concerns, and inviting him to help me meet both of our needs helps to minimize the outbursts, and has taught me, perhaps most importantly, to understand why I am giving the rules and limitations I am. A parent who says no, just for the sake of establishing dominance is doing nothing worthwhile for the child. I regret that I am sometimes that parent.

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