If you’re a mental health clinician, we’re hoping you’ve heard of the Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) approach. Perhaps you’re aware of the model because of the book The Explosive Child, by Dr. Ross Greene. Or maybe you’ve read the book Dr. Greene and his colleague, Dr. Stuart Ablon, wrote for mental health professionals, Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach. Quite possibly you’ve seen research papers describing implementation of the model in families, schools, or inpatient psychiatry units. So you may already know a lot about the model…or just enough to have a lot of questions…or very little at all.

No matter how you came to hear about the model, and no matter how much you know about it already, we want to make sure your questions get answered and that you have access to the most current renditions of the model, along with all kinds of materials you might need to help you use the model proficiently.

We’re Think:Kids. We’re a non-profit organization affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and founded by Drs. Greene and Ablon. And we’re here for only one reason: to disseminate the CPS model so that – whether in families, schools, clinics, inpatient units, residential facilities, or juvenile detention facilities – people have the tools they need to implement the model as well as possible.