The explosive child : a new approach for understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children / Ross W. Greene
By: Greene, Ross W.
Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, 2021Edition: Revised and updated; Sixth edition.Description: xvii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780063092464.Other title: New approach for understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children.Subject(s): CHILDREN | CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR | BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT | FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS | PARENTING | PARENT GUIDESGenre/Form: Self-help publications.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | IHC Library | Main Collection | 410.3 GRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 25/10/2023 | W0015947 | |||
Book | IHC Library | Main Collection | 410.3 GRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 26/03/2024 | W0015893 |
First edition published: 1998; fourth edition published: 2010.
Includes index.
The waffle episode -- Kids do well if they can -- Lagging skills and unsolved problems -- Getting started -- The truth about consequences -- The three plans -- Plan B -- Trouble in paradise -- Got questions? -- Family matters -- The dinosaur in the building -- Better.
Now in a revised and updated 6th edition, the groundbreaking, research-based approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other challenging behaviors, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field. What's an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration--crying, screaming, swearing, kicking, hitting, biting, spitting, destroying property, and worse. A child whose frequent, severe outbursts leave his or her parents feeling frustrated, scared, worried, and desperate for help. Most of these parents have tried everything-reasoning, explaining, punishing, sticker charts, therapy, medication--but to no avail. They can't figure out why their child acts the way he or she does; they wonder why the strategies that work for other kids don't work for theirs; and they don't know what to do instead. Dr. Ross Greene, a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the treatment of kids with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges, has worked with thousands of explosive children, and he has good news: these kids aren't attention-seeking, manipulative, or unmotivated, and their parents aren't passive, permissive pushovers. Rather, explosive kids are lacking some crucial skills in the domains of flexibility/adaptability, frustration tolerance, and problem solving, and they require a different approach to parenting. Throughout this compassionate, insightful, and practical book, Dr. Greene provides a new conceptual framework for understanding their difficulties, based on research in the neurosciences. He explains why traditional parenting and treatment often don't work with these children, and he describes what to do instead. Instead of relying on rewarding and punishing, Dr. Greene's Collaborative Problem Solving model promotes working with explosive children to solve the problems that precipitate explosive episodes, and teaching these kids the skills they lack.
Patron comment on 21/03/2022
I've read the previous edition - this is a very useful update, although a lot of the content remains the same. Practical and easy to read.