The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically...

A groundbreaking approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other intractable behaviours, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in this field, now updated to include the most recent research.

Almost everyone knows an explosive child, one whose frequent, severe fits of temper leave his or her parents standing helpless in their fear, frustration, and guilt. Most of these parents have tried everything?reasoning, behaviour modification, therapy, medication?but to no avail. They wonder if their child is deviant or just plain bad.

Dr. Ross Greene has worked with thousands of explosive children, and he has good news: these kids aren't bad, and neither are their parents. Rather, explosive children suffer from a physiological deficiency in frustration tolerance and flexibility. Throughout this compassionate book, Dr. Greene demonstrates why traditional treatments don't work for these kids and offers a new conceptual framework for understanding their behaviour, along with new language to describe it. He explains the latest neuroscience findings about the importance of flexibility, and, most important, he shows parents specific, practical ways they can recognize the signs of an impending explosion, defuse tension, and reduce frustration levels for the entire family.

For parents, psychologists, educators and ADHD groups.

In addition to the scientific foundation of the book, Greene addresses parents in practical ways that will help show results in difficult children and their effect on families.

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-21-2009; This is a great book for parenting inflexible/explosive children.; For parents who are struggling with a child that does not respond to the motivation/consequence type of method, this book is so helpful. It has real life examples from his clientel (no identification of course) that "show" you how it...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-21-2009; Informative!; I like this author's (doctor) clear understanding and empathetic approach to problem situations. I am finding valuable information in this book that is helping me and my family. Worth buying.; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-20-2009; Insightful and Interesting; I found this book to be very interesting and helped me view children's behavior from a different perspective, both personally and professionally. I would recommend this book to anyone who works with children, or who has children.; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-06-2009; I think this book makes terrific sense; I wholeheartedly recommend this book to parents and educators, and in fact anyone who interacts with young people on a regular basis, particularly if they are in a supervising or caregiving situation. As the author states at the end of...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-21-2009; This is a great book for parenting inflexible/explosive children.; For parents who are struggling with a child that does not respond to the motivation/consequence type of method, this book is so helpful. It has real life examples from his clientel (no identification of course) that "show" you how it...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-04-2007; An Introduction to Alternatives; You can get the gist of this book by skimming through it. It speaks to cooperative communication and problem solving with the child instead of the authoritarian approach that is so easy to fall into (do it because I say so.) The...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-24-2008; Confusing and Unhelpful; I was very disappointed in this book. There was never any clear discussion of what symptoms or characteristics one might use to classify their child as "explosive" other than one who throws a lot of violoent fits. But there is a big...; read full review | report as inappropriate