- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; New edition edition (1 Feb 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060931027
- ISBN-13: 978-0060931025
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 392,964 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Offers techniques for helping chronically inflexible children, shows how brain-based deficits contribute to these problems, suggests ways to calm things down.
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Ross W. Greene, Ph.D., originator of the Collaborative Problem Solving approach, is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and specializes in the treatment and study of children with social, emotional, and behavioural challenges. He works extensively with families, schools, inpatient psychiatry units, and juvenile detention facilities, and lectures widely throughout the world.
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Jennifer, age eleven, wakes up, makes her bed, looks around her room to make sure everything is in its place, and heads into the kitchen to make herself breakfast. Read the first page
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51 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
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Mandatory reading for parents and teachers of "exploders",
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This review is from: The Explosive Child (Hardcover)
As a parent of an explosive child for 7 years, and a teacher of special education for 22, I highly recommend The Explosive Child. Dr. Greene has been able to help me transcend years of my own frustration to see this type of child through brand new eyes. The book not only presents a plan for prioritizing goals, it teaches the parent how to instruct the child in negotiation, adjusting to disappointment, and handling frustration. Additionally, and perhaps most importantly, it teaches adults how to reduce frustration in the child's environment, so explosive episodes are less likely to occur. Actual dialogue and scenarios from therapy sessions are used to illustrate these methods. Dr. Greene's subtle humor makes this an easy read with practical principles that can be implemented immediately.
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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This book describes my childhood ...,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Explosive Child (Hardcover)
I can't really do more than echo the praises of other reviewers, but I wanted to add that this excellent book will be also be indispensible for many parents of children with autism, Asperger's syndrome or PDD-NOS. Most of the examples in the book focus on kids with ADHD or Tourette's, and the book only mentions PDD very briefly, but its wise advice would be equally relevant to verbal kids with autistic spectrum conditions who have rage attacks/tantrums, as many do. I'm speaking from personal experience here - I have Asperger's syndrome (a mild autistic spectrum condition), and, looking back, as a child I definitely fitted the "inflexible-explosive" patterns described in the book. This book encapsulates all the wisdom my exhausted parents had to learn the hard way. I already know of at least one parent of a teenager with AS who is currently finding the book absolutely lifesaving, and I've had to buy several copies to lend to people. It's thoughtful, humane, and very practical. Very highly recommended.
51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
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An essential guide,
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This review is from: The Explosive Child (Paperback)
This guide has really made a difference to our lives. I had read other books which described time outs and other ways of punishing kids. This guy has really understood what makes these kids tick, and his understanding has made me understand what we were doing wrong as parents.I couldn't recommend this book enough and will be buying copies for other parents who have these same kind of inflexible, explosive kids. It's a lifesaver.
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