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

Family Matters 225 Mitchell’s frown turned upside down. “Thank you,” he said. “This is going to be hard,” said the father. “And ...

226 The Explosive Child know what’s going on in someone’s head. It just gets you guys more agitated with one another.” “No more ...

Family Matters 227 of inappropriate behavior, and began to hang out with other children who have come down a similar path. Unfor ...

228 The Explosive Child to turn around. Many such children ultimately need treat- ment that is more intensive than the kind that ...

Family Matters 229 suggests we cannot provide everything a child needs. We don’t like asking someone else to take care of our ch ...

230 The Explosive Child If you end up seriously considering placing your child in a residential facility, try to visit some of t ...

10 Better Living Through Chemicals As noted in Chapter 7, there are some children who will not benefit substantially from the ap ...

232 The Explosive Child the door to such teaching. The goal of this chapter is to provide a brief overview of (rather than a com ...

Better Living Through Chemicals 233 is willing to devote sufficient time to monitoring your child’s progress carefully and cont ...

234 The Explosive Child INATTENTION AND DISTRACTIBILITY If inattention and distractibility are significantly interfer- ing with ...

Better Living Through Chemicals 235 administering a half dose late in the afternoon to ease the child off the medication. Finall ...

236 The Explosive Child tially cause an increase in agitation. Antihypertensive medications, including clonidine (Catapres) and ...

Better Living Through Chemicals 237 dry mouth, weight gain, sedation, lightheadedness, and constipation. IRRITABILITY AND OBSESS ...

238 The Explosive Child EXTREMELY SHORT FUSE If—despite heavy doses of Plan C—your child’s fuse is still so short that he is inc ...

Better Living Through Chemicals 239 hour coverage and typically do not affect the sleep of most children. Lithium can cause seda ...

240 The Explosive Child ture is a competent, clinically savvy, attentive, available prescribing doctor. But the doctor can’t tre ...

Better Living Through Chemicals 241 some children, the behavioral improvements that are fa- cilitated by medication persist even ...

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11 The Plan B Classroom As hard as it is to help an ex- plosive child within a family, it may be even harder in a classroom in t ...

244 The Explosive Child The embarrassment factor: They’d be embarrassed if they exploded in front of their peers. Since the em- ...