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

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Tegretol, 238–239
television scenario, differing reactions to,
6–7
Tenex, 236
testing, high-stakes, 246–47
thinking skills
characteristics of explosive child, 6
considering a range of possible
solutions, 183
identification of pathways, 24–25, 44
importance of development of, 48
lack of, 85, 272
medications, 231–32
pathway, 85
residential facilities, 228
skills necessary for child to participate
in Plan B, 183
social skills, 44
See also black-and-white thinking;
clear thinking; executive skills;
flexibility; frustration tolerance; gray
thinking; irrationality; rational
thinking
tics, 47, 64, 68, 234, 236
tightly wrapped factor, 244
time-outs, 3, 29, 73–74, 77, 79, 90, 161–62
timing, for Plan B, 97
Tofranil, 236
Tourette’s disorder, 5, 8, 64
Trent (child), 166–67
triggers
case studies about, 49–71
definition of, 47–48, 272
examples of, 47, 95, 122
explosions as means of providing
information, 151

identification of, 47–48, 54, 57–58, 63,

70–71, 88, 168, 177, 251

Plan B in school, 251–52

Plan C, 95

progress using Plan B, 159

See also specific trigger or problem

unpredictability

characteristics of explosive children,

7–8, 57

cognitive flexibility skills, 196

differences between other children and

explosive children, 7–8

training other skills with Plan B,

196

See also predictability

unprotected sex problem, 172–75

valproic acid (Depakote), 238–39

vocabulary

of feeling words/emotions, 188–90

See also language processing skills

waffle episode, 1–10, 274–75

wavelength, being on same, 87

Wellbutrin, 235–36

who’s boss, 15, 30–31, 83, 86, 228

withdrawal, as characteristic of

“implosive” children, 6

working things out with child

conventional wisdom, 96

See also Plan B; Collaborative Problem

Solving

Zoloft, 237

Zyprexa, 238