So what’s your role? That depends on the nature of your practice and your time constraints. At the very least, you want to let parents know that their child’s challenging behavior may be more complicated than the conventional wisdom – and various books and popular TV shows – may have led them to believe. Explain that research confirms that challenging kids lack crucial cognitive skills and probably aren’t attention-seeking, manipulative, limit-testing, or coercive. And tell them about this website. We can provide all kinds of resources that can help parents do the rest.

We’re here to help you and the people you care for learn as much as possible about challenging kids and the best ways to help them.

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BOOKS

The Explosive Child
Understanding and Helping Easily Frustrated, "Chronically Inflexible" Children
By Ross W. Greene, Ph.D. Now available in a completely revised and updated third edition, The Explosive Child is the internationally acclaimed book in which the Collaborative Problem Solving™ approach was first described. As in prior editions, the third edition describes a more contemporary approach to understanding and helping inflexible, easily frustrated, explosive children at home and school, but also includes the various updates to the CPS model that have occurred since the first edition was published in 1998. Click here if you want to buy the revised third edition at amazon.com.

Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach
By Ross W. Greene, Ph.D. and J. Stuart Ablon, Ph.D.
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. Click here if you want to buy Treating Explosive Kids at amazon.com.

ADVANCED TRAINING

For professionals like yourself seeking more intensive training in the CPS model, staff from the Center for Collaborative Problem Solving conducts 3-day advanced training seminars in Cambridge, Massachusetts each summer, including a Level II training for prior Level I attendees. Dates for the summer 2008 trainings are as follows:

Level I Advanced Training: August 4-6

Level II Advanced Training: July 9-11

Click here to be taken to the Center for CPS website for more information!