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

Pathways and Triggers 45 (“That was a mean thing to do...I’d like to avoid get- ting into a fight with this person” or “That was ...

46 The Explosive Child across or appreciating how their behavior is affecting oth- ers; and may lack the skills for handling the ...

Pathways and Triggers 47 By the way, there’s a big difference between interpret- ing the pathways described in this chapter as “ ...

48 The Explosive Child gers are the situations or events over which the child is actually exploding. Help the child develop the ...

4 Pathways and Triggers Brought to Life As you might imagine—given the different pathways and triggers that could be in- volved ...

50 The Explosive Child CASEY Casey was a six-year-old boy who lived with his parents and younger sister. His parents reported th ...

Pathways and Triggers Brought to Life 51 obtain rewards and avoid punishments. Indeed, the pro- gram actually seemed to frustrat ...

52 The Explosive Child ther remorseful (“I’m sorry I ran out of the classroom... I know I shouldn’t do that”) or had difficulty ...

Pathways and Triggers Brought to Life 53 “Was that pretty typical?” the therapist asked the parents. “No, at home he’d have beco ...

54 The Explosive Child explosions. Whether Casey’s difficulty talking about his problems reflected lagging language processing s ...

Pathways and Triggers Brought to Life 55 please. Helen’s piano teacher observed that Helen tended to become easily frustrated an ...

56 The Explosive Child Eventually, she lost it completely. She was screaming and crying, but I was determined that she would eat ...

Pathways and Triggers Brought to Life 57 sponded. “It’s hard to know whether to reciprocate her affection or to hold a grudge fo ...

58 The Explosive Child that there are probably seven or eight ‘triggers’ account- ing for most of her explosions. The list will ...

Pathways and Triggers Brought to Life 59 Danny with Ritalin several years previously, but Danny had remained moody, rigid, and e ...

60 The Explosive Child able to help himself. The therapist’s sense early on was that Danny’s extreme irritability was a major fa ...

Pathways and Triggers Brought to Life 61 “What happens when you punish him?” the therapist asked. “He goes nuts,” she said. “It’ ...

62 The Explosive Child feeling he’s generally in a pretty cranky mood. I know he’s not crazy about coming here, but is that his ...

Pathways and Triggers Brought to Life 63 in an irritable, cranky mood, they experience every re- quest or change or inconvenienc ...

64 The Explosive Child MITCHELL Mitchell was dragged into yet another therapist’s office for an initial appointment when he was ...