Preface
Welcome to the third edition
of The Explosive Child. Much has happened since the
first edition was published in 1998. To begin with, the
approach described in these pages now has a name: Col-
laborative Problem Solving (CPS). And to make it easier
for people to understand and implement, there have also
been a variety of updates to the model, and these changes
are presented in this edition. And there’s now a non-
profit organization—the Collaborative Problem Solving
Institute—that has been established to help us reach out
to more parents, teachers, and others who work with and
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