What we know about challenging kids can help you!

Thanks to research in the neurosciences, we know a lot more about kids with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges than ever before. We now know that challenging behavior – whether it’s screaming, swearing, biting, spitting, hitting, kicking, destroying property, or worse – is set in motion by lagging cognitive skills, especially in the domains of flexibility, frustration tolerance, and problem solving. We now know that challenging behavior isn’t the result of passive, permissive, inconsistent, noncontingent parenting, but is instead best understood as a form of developmental delay.

And we now know that traditional discipline – with its heavy emphasis on consequences – doesn’t teach challenging kids the skills they lack and can actually set the stage for a challenging kid’s worst moments.

Best of all, we now know how to teach those skills and work collaboratively with challenging kids to help them solve the problems that are precipitating their challenging episodes.

Welcome to the work of Dr. Ross Greene, Harvard psychologist, author of the highly acclaimed books The Explosive Child and Lost at School, and originator of the Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) approach, an evidence-based, proven approach to understanding and helping challenging kids.

If you’re looking for answers to some very important questions…

• “Why is this kid acting this way?”

• “How come what works for other kids isn’t working for this one?”

• “What can I do instead?”

…you’ve come to the right place!

Dr. Greene’s approach has changed the lives of countless thousands of challenging kids and their caretakers. You have some hard work ahead of you. But there is light at the end of the tunnel.

The Center for Collaborative Problem Solving provides training and consultation to assist education, mental health, and medical professionals and parents in understanding and implementing the CPS approach, and is the only organization authorized to train others in the approach.  You can receive continuous email updates of our projects, research, and services by receiving CPS Update (it's free). Just send us your name and email address by subscribing here.

Top | Home | Seminars | Consultation | Clinical Services | Articles
Contact/Directions | Books | Explosive Child | Copyright | Site Map

Web site design by flyte new media
email Web Developer