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

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The Explosive Child A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children ROSS W. GR ...

In memory of Irving A. Greene ...

Anyone can become angry, that is easy... but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the ...

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Contents Epigraph iii Acknowledgments vii Preface xi 1 The Waffle Episode 1 2 Children Do Well If They Can 11 3 Pathways and Tri ...

vi Contents 7 Learning Curves 131 8 Teach Your Children Well 177 9 Family Matters 205 10 Better Living Through Chemicals 231 11 ...

Acknowledgments I would like to acknowledge the contributions of my valued colleague and friend, Dr. Stu- art Ablon, whose insig ...

viii Acknowledgments chology program at Virginia Tech. Two psychologists who supervised me during my training years were partic- ...

Acknowledgments ix While there are many explosive girls, for ease of expo- sition most of this book is written in the masculine ...

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Preface Welcome to the third edition of The Explosive Child. Much has happened since the first edition was published in 1998. To ...

xii Preface care about explosive kids. And the Boston Red Sox won the World Series. This revised edition is still about the same ...

Preface xiii book suggests that the content is relevant only to chil- dren who explode, the CPS model is applicable equally to c ...

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1 The Waffle Episode Jennifer, age eleven, wakes up, makes her bed, looks around her room to make sure everything is in its plac ...

2 The Explosive Child fles,” and the mother reaches into the freezer for the waf- fles. Jennifer, who has been listening intentl ...

The Waffle Episode 3 verbal aggression than the one described above (when Jennifer was eight, she kicked out the front windshiel ...

4 The Explosive Child nations of drugs, without dramatic effect. After eight years of disparate advice, firmer limits, medicine, ...