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

by Ross W. Greene

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Greene introduces the Collaborative and Proactive Solutions model based on the premise that children do well if they can, reframing explosive behavior as a signal of lagging skills in flexibility, frustration tolerance, and problem-solving rather than willful defiance. He provides a step-by-step approach for identifying unsolved problems and working collaboratively with children to develop mutually satisfactory solutions.

Published:: 1998
Pages:: 272

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It draws on Emotional Intelligence, Descartes' Error and Flow.

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Greene references Goleman's emotional intelligence research to explain how explosive children lack the self-regulation and emotional processing skills that underlie adaptive behavior

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Emotional Intelligence

by Daniel Goleman

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Greene draws on Damasio's neuroscience from Descartes' Error to explain how emotion and cognition are intertwined in the brain, supporting his argument that explosive children have neurological deficits in emotional processing that drive their inflexible behavior

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Descartes' Error

by Antonio Damasio

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Greene implicitly builds on Csikszentmihalyi's research on optimal experience, showing that children who lack frustration tolerance skills cannot access the flexible, engaged cognitive states needed for collaborative problem-solving

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Flow

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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