In this episode I continue the interview on Collaborative Problem Solving in the classroom with Dr. Ross Green, author of The Explosive Child. As I stated in the previous episode, there are a variety of classroom management techniques, all designed to help solve the issue of how to discipline children who are having behavioral problems. I think you’ll find that Dr. Green’s approach makes a lot of sense and it can be implemented in the classroom as well as at home. A fascinating interview.
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Here again are the resources on this topic that I think you’ll find useful:

Collaborative Problem Solving Books and DVDs

• The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children

• Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach

• Parenting the Explosive Child: featuring Drs. Ross Greene and Stuart Ablon

• Calming the Tempest : Helping the Explosive Child

• Check out the Thinkkids website where you can find more information on collaborative problem solving.

Related Episodes on The Psych Files

• Episode 28: Is Timeout Really Effective?

• Episode 33: Timeout Revisited - Dealing with Challenging Kids Part 1

• Episode 34: Timeout Revisited - Dealing with Challenging Kids Part 2

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Classroom management techniques - there are a lot of strategies for dealing with behavior problems in the classroom. It’s time to add Collaborative Problem Solving to your toolkit. Learn an alternative to traditional classroom discipline techniques like timeout or sending the child to the principal. A recent Time magazine article entitled “How to Make Great Teachers” mentions that in a 2001 survey of teachers, 44% listed "student behavior problems" as the reason they left the profession. What can be done?

In this episode I interview Dr. Ross Green, author of The Explosive Child and the upcoming book "Lost in School". He’ll tell you how to use collaborative problem solving with your students. This episode is also for parents, daycare workers, babysitters - anyone who wants to help young people learn to think their way through everyday behavior problems.
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Collaborative Problem Solving Books and DVDs

• The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children

• Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach

• Parenting the Explosive Child: featuring Drs. Ross Greene and Stuart Ablon

• Calming the Tempest : Helping the Explosive Child

• Check out the Thinkkids website where you can find more information on collaborative problem solving.

Related Episodes on The Psych Files

• Episode 28: Is Timeout Really Effective?

• Episode 33: Timeout Revisited - Dealing with Challenging Kids Part 1

• Episode 34: Timeout Revisited - Dealing with Challenging Kids Part 2

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Here’s the second part of my episode on alternatives to timeout. In this part of the interview, Dr. Ablon discusses Plan B in more detail. How do you work with your child to come up with solutions that satisfy both your and his or her needs?

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Resources For Timeout Revisited

Make sure to check out the ThinkKids website for more information on collaborative problem solving.

Research this topic further on Technorati: behavior management

There’s some interesting information in Wikipedia on the topic of timeout.

Related Episodes

In case you didn’t catch part 1 of this episode on alternatives to timeout, here’s the link:

• Part 1 of the interview on timeout revisited.

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In part of 1 of this interview Dr. J. Stuart Ablon we talk those children for whom timeout sometimes does not work. What’s your alternative then? Listen in and learn about the Collaborative Problem Solving approach.

Listen to this episode to learn about alternatives to time out.

Resources For This Episode

• Make sure to go to the Think Kids website for more information about collaborative problem solving.
• The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
• Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach

Relevent Previous Episodes on The Psych Files

• Make sure to listen to the episode entitled Is Timeout Really Effective?
• An early episode of The Psych Files covers the basics of rewards and punishments.

Related Episodes

Be sure to listen part 2 of this interview with Stuart Ablon called “Timeout Revisited”: dealing with challenging kids:

• Part 2 of the interview on timeout revisited.

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Everybody advocates the use of time out over forms of punishments like spankings, but how exactly do you administer time out in a way that is effective? Could we be doing it all wrong? Is time out even something we should be doing at all? Join me as I explore this topic.

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Resources and Links for this Episode

• Listen to Jane Nelson (author of Positive Discipline) talk about her views on time out and spanking. This is an mp3 file from episode 28 of the Focusing on Solutions podcast.
• Here is the link to the Positive Discipline website, and here is the link to their podcast.
• Here is a link to the book Positive Time-Out: And Over 50 Ways to Avoid Power Struggles in the Home and the Classroom.
• Here’s the link to 1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 (123 Magic)
• Here’s the link to Smart Love
• If time out has not worked for you, consider this book: The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children

Quotes of Interest

From Positive Time Out (Nelson):

• Where did we ever get the idea that we have to make children feel bad in order for to act good?

From Smart Love (Pieper and Pieper):

• We believe that discipline makes children miserable without offering them any genuine benefit, because punishing children whose behavior is out of control actually interferes with their ability to learn self governance. We advocate the use of loving regulation, a way for parents to guide their children away from missteps without adding to their unhappiness or interfering with their development of inner happiness.
• The best way to respond to a child’s harmful or dangerous behavior is to stop it without imposing added unpleasantness.
• Parents are frequently advised to tell their child that her behavior makes them angry. But children cannot distinguish between their parent’s anger at the behavior and their parent’s feelings about them. When children repeatedly experience their parents as being angry at them, they copy their parents and develop needs to feel angry at themselves.
• Unfortunately, most people don’t recognize that many of the vulnerabilities and out of control behaviors that children engage in are both temporary and appropriate for their age (you can’t expect children to act like adults).

The Explosive Child:

These authors discuss children whom they refer to as “inflexible-explosive”: children who find it difficult to “go with the flow”. These children get “locked up” and don’t handle change easily. Also, typical disciplinary procedures such as time-out only lead to a deterioration of their condition and probably a “melt-down”. The authors encourage a more problem solving approach to working with such children. I encourage you to take a look at two web sites related to their work:

• Find out more about their approach at the Center for Collaborate Problem Solving.
• The authors have established a non-profit institute called “Think Kids” and I encourage you to visit this site.

Related Episodes

Be sure to listen to the Interview with Stuart Ablon called “Timeout Revisited”: dealing with challenging kids:

• Part 1 of the interview on timeout revisited.

• Part 2 of the interview on timeout revisited.

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We finish off this series looking at your brain as you develop by examining what is happening in your brain as you age from adolescence to older adulthood. Also: an impersonated celebrity endorsement from Star Trek’s George Takai.

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Resources for this podcast

• The resources for this podcast are the same as those for episode 24, except for one book which others have recommended and which I am reading right now and it’s quite interesting. It’s called The Mature Mind by Gene Cohen. The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain
  

• Discover Magazine had a wonderful special issue devoted specifically to the brain called “The Brain: An Owner’s Manual.” It appeared on June 30, 2007. Click here to go to the Discover Website. Look under the “Mind & Brain” tab for lots of other psychology related resources.
• Here’s an interesting site showing a brain from different angles with all the parts labeled.
• In this video from YouTube, a college student points out all the parts of the brain on a brain model.

Related Episodes

Other information on Erikson can be found in these podcasts:

• Interviews with individuals in the different stages of Erikson’s model can be found in episode 21.

• Part 1 of this series on Erikson’s stages can be found in episode 22.

• Part 2 of this series on Erikson’s stages can be found in episode 24.

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What is happening in your brain as you progress through life? In this episode we take a look at some of the changes that occur in your brain from birth to age 12. Be sure to listen to part 3 of this series, which is episode 25.

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Resources for this podcast

• Discover Magazine had a wonderful special issue devoted specifically to the brain called “The Brain: An Owner’s Manual.” It appeared on June 30, 2007. Click here to go to the Discover Website. Look under the “Mind & Brain” tab for lots of other psychology related resources.
• If you’d like to manipulate the brain itself virtually, check out this site.
• Here is a very funny and informative video I found on youtube which “sings” you through the parts of the brain.

Related Episodes

Other information on Erikson can be found in these podcasts:

• Interviews with individuals in the different stages of Erikson’s model can be found in episode 21.

• Part 1 of this series on Erikson’s stages can be found in episode 22.

• Part 3 of this series on Erikson’s stages can be found in episode 25.

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This week on The Psych Files we take a stroll through the various phases of life: from childhood, to adolescence, into mid-life and then we listen to two interesting voices of men nearing the end of their lives and they do so with very different perspectives John Wayne and Roy.

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Memorize Erikson’s Eight Stages

Do you have to memorize Erikson’s Eight Stages of psychosocial development? Having trouble remembering which one comes after Trust vs. Mistrust? Well, here’s how I learned to remember the stages using the pegword technique.

Click on the play button above to listen to me talk about my mnemonic devices for Erikson’s stages, or download it to your ipod, Zune or other mp3 device.

Remember: pegwords are effective when they are:

• Bizarre
• Colorful
• Contain action
• Most important – when they evoke images that are familiar to you.

Here is the list of my keywords:

1. Bun - (Trust vs. Mistrust) – a rusty red (rust-colored) bun

2. Shoe – (Autonomy vs. Shame): a huge automobile (maybe a humvee?) stuffed into your shoe: license plate: “shame”

3. Tree – (Initiative vs. Guilt) a tree with lots of quilts (guilt) “in it” (initiative)

4. Door – (Industry vs. Inferiority): industry: you open a door and you see a factory (industry) with smoke coming out the top. It’s a very tiny (inferiority) factory

5. Hive – (Identity vs. Identity Diffusion) – picture a dented (identity) beehive that’s has one of those radioactive signs on it to remind you of fusion (diffusion)

6. Sticks – (Intimacy vs. Isolation): picture two sticks in love (intimacy) – they’re got their little twigs around each other and they kissing. I’ll also picture a stick all by itself (isolation).

7. Heaven – (Generativity vs. Stagnation). picture a generator (generativity) up in heaven connected to the pearly gates and a stag (stagnation) is pulling the rope to try start up the generator. Or picture all your previous generations (grandparents, etc.) are in heaven. Granda riding a stag. OR: “general”: you could picture a general in heaven who just shot a stag

8. Plate – (Integrity vs. Despair): picture a plate of grits (integrity) with a pear (despair) next to it on the plate.

Click to view or download an image of the above information that will help you to memorize Erikson’s Eight Stages of Psychosocial Development

Click to hear brief audio snippets from the people in the podcast who are each at a different stage of Erikson’s stages of development

Resources for This Podcast

Shakespeare describes the stages of life in his “All the World’s A Stage” speech from “As You Like It.” It was read by Reed Martin of the Reduced Shakespeare Company. Click here to go to their site.

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players,
They have their exits and entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then, the whining schoolboy with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice
In fair round belly, with good capon lin’d,
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws, and modern instances,
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side,
His youthful hose well sav’d, a world too wide,
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again towards childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

• Here’s a great webpage which describes all of Erikson’s eight stages of psychosocial development.

• I mentioned a website which discussed each of Erikson’s stages. Click here to go to Support for Change site where I found this interesting note about how adolescents “subsitute philosophy for experience”: “A significant task for us is to establish a philosophy of life and in this process we tend to think in terms of ideals, which are conflict free, rather than reality, which is not. The problem is that we don’t have much experience and find it easy to substitute ideals for experience. However, we can also develop strong devotion to friends and causes.”
• Click here to go to StoryCorps where you’ll find lots of interesting interviews with regular folks of all ages.
• Click here to go to the page on Archive.org where you can hear the original recording of John Wayne.

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