Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #221091 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 246 pages

Review

'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

From the Back Cover

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.

About the Author

Ross W. Greene, PhD, and J. Stuart Ablon, PhD, both at Collaborative Problem Solving Institute, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton Corner, MA

Customer Reviews

Creating a better world
I am reading "Treating the Explosive Child" and simply cannot put this book down - if everyone incorporated this approach into everyday life, what a humane world it could be. Thank you Dr. Stuart Ablon and Dr. Ross Greene for the expertise you are sharing and disseminating to the world - in my eyes, you are truly heroes.