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

Site Search Tag: Development, Parenting and Childcare

 

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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

Site Search Tag: Development, Parenting and Childcare

 

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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.

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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