Ross W. Greene

Renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence.Parents have an important task: figure out who their child ishis or her skills, preferences, beliefs, values, personality traits, goals, and directionget comfortable with it, and then help them pursue and live a life according to it. Yet parents also want their kids to be independent, but not if they are going to make bad choices. They want to avoid being too overbearing, but not if an apathetic kid is what they have to show for it. They want to have a good relationship with their kids, but not if that means being a pushover. They dont want to scream, but they do want to be heard. Good parenting is about striking the balance between a childs characteristics and a parents desire to have influence.Dr. Ross Greene makes a powerful case for rethinking typical approaches to parenting and disciplining children (The Atlantic). Through his well-known model of solving problems collaboratively, parents can forgo timeout and sticker charts; stop badgering, berating, threatening, and punishing; allow their kids to feel heard and validated; and have influence.From homework to hygiene, curfews, to screen time, Dr. Greene arms parents with guidelines that are clear, doable, and sure to empower both parents and their children (Adele Faber, coauthor of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen). Raising Human Beings is inspirationala game-changer for parents, teachers, and other caregivers. Its advice is reasonable and empathetic, and readers will feel ready to start creating a better relationship with the children in their lives (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

From the renowned authority on education and parenting, an in-depth approach to aid parents and teachers to work together with behaviorally challenging students (Publishers Weekly)now revised and updated.School discipline is broken. Too often, the kids who need our help the most are viewed as disrespectful, out of control, and beyond help, and are often the recipients of our most ineffective, most punitive interventions. These studentsand their parents, teachers, and administratorsare frustrated and desperate for answers.Dr. Ross W. Greene, author of the acclaimed book The Explosive Child, offers educators and parents a different framework for understanding challenging behavior. Dr. Greenes Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) approach helps adults focus on the true factors contributing to challenging classroom behaviors, empowering educators to address these factors and create helping relationships with their most at-risk kids.This revised and updated edition of Lost at School contains the latest refinements to Dr. Greenes CPS model, including enhanced methods for solving problems collaboratively, improving communication, and building relationships with kids.Dr. Greenes lively, compelling narrative includes: Tools to identify the problems and lagging skills causing challenging behavior Explicit guidance on how to radically improve interactions with challenging kids and reduce challenging episodesalong with many examples showing how its done Practical guidance for successful planning and collaboration among educators, parents, and kidsBacked by years of experience and research and written with a powerful sense of hope and achievable change, Lost at School gives teachers and parents the realistic strategies and information to impact the classroom experience of every challenging kid (and their classmates).

Cuando nos toca ser padres, la vida se nos llena de dilemas y conflictos: queremos que nuestros hijos sean independientes pero que no tomen malas decisiones. No queremos ser autoritarios pero tampoco que se vuelvan apaticos, irrespetuosos o que no nos tomen en serio. ¿Que hacemos entonces? Esta es una estupenda guia de herramientas pensadas para ayudar a educar a los hijos (niños y adolescentes) de forma no conflictiva, en situaciones muy cotidianas que van desde los deberes hasta la higiene, pasando por la hora para volver a casa o por el tiempo que se puede estar frente a una pantalla.DR. ROSS W. GREENE. Psiquiatra estadounidense. Profesor Asociado del Departamento de Psiquiatria en la Escuela Medica de Harvard. Director fundador de la organizacion sin animo de lucro Lives in the Balance, a traves de la cual difunde el modelo de atencion descrito en sus libros, conocido ahora como Soluciones Colaborativas y Proactivas. Este es el primer libro publicado en el Grupo de Comunicacion Loyola.

From a New York Times bestselling authority on education and childrens mental health comes a groundbreaking guide to navigating classroom challenges through an approach that is aimed at meeting kids where theyre at and being responsive to the developmental variability inherent in every classroom.Over the past two decades, a wide array of societal changes have made it much harder to be a kid. While lots of kids are still doing okay, many more than ever are not. The Kids Who Arent Okay opens with sobering statistics on childrens mental health: higher than ever rates of concerning behaviors at school, anxiety, depression, chronic absenteeism, and suicidality. And educatorswho have never felt less safe at school, have experienced significant decreases in job satisfaction, and have left the profession in drovesarent doing very well, either.Child psychologist Dr. Ross Greene, renowned for his pioneering work in education and originator of the evidence-based Collaborative & Proactive Solutions model (which has transformed practices in countless families, schools, psychiatric units, and residential and juvenile detention settings), has worked in and with schools across the globe for decades. He argues that the moment demands that we renew our focus on developmental variability and meeting every student where theyre at, and that we take a hard look at our structures, practices, and mentalities at school and make practical, actionable, realistic changes that benefit all kids and educators. These changes must include shifting to interventions that are proactive (early) rather than reactive (late), solutions that are collaborative rather than unilateral, and focused on the problems that are causing concerning behaviors (and solving them) rather than behaviors (and modifying them).Building on the principles introduced in his landmark, bestselling book, Lost at School, Greene equips educators and caregivers with the tools to foster safer, more supportive, inclusive learning environments. In easy-to-understand, practical terms, Greene provides a clear road map for turning things around, complete with vignettes, case studies, and the voices of educators whove done it. The Kids Who Arent Okay is a vital resource, providing hope and guidance as schools navigate the new normal.

Now in a revised and updated 6th edition, the groundbreaking, research-based guide to understanding and parenting challenging children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field.Whats an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustrationcrying, screaming, swearing, kicking, hitting, biting, spitting, destroying property, and worse. A child whose frequent, severe outbursts leave his or her parents feeling frustrated, scared, worried, and desperate for help. Most of these parents have tried everything for effective child behavior managementreasoning, explaining, punishing, sticker charts, therapy, medicationbut to no avail. They cant figure out why their child acts the way he or she does; they wonder why the strategies that work for other kids dont work for theirs; and they dont know what to do instead.Dr. Ross Greene, a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the treatment of kids with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges, has worked with thousands of explosive children, and he has good news: these kids arent attention-seeking, manipulative, or unmotivated, and their parents arent passive, permissive pushovers. Rather, explosive kids are lacking some crucial skills in the domains of flexibility/adaptability, frustration tolerance, and problem solving, and they require a different approach to parenting. Throughout this compassionate, insightful, and practical book, Dr. Greene provides a new conceptual framework for understanding their difficulties, based on research in the neurosciences. He explains why traditional parenting and treatment often dont work with these children, and he describes what to do instead. Instead of relying on rewarding and punishing, Dr. Greenes Collaborative & Proactive Solutions model provides a form of non-punitive discipline that promotes working with explosive children to solve the problems that precipitate explosive episodes, and teaching these kids the skills they lack.This compassionate and practical guide provides a new path forward for families. Inside, youll discover how to:Identify Lagging Skills: Learn why explosive kids lack crucial skills in flexibility, frustration tolerance, and problem-solving, and how this understanding changes everything about your approach. Solve Problems Collaboratively: Master the parent-proven process of working with your child to solve the problems that precipitate explosive episodes, instead of just managing the behavior. Implement Evidence-Based Parenting Strategies: Apply Dr. Greenes research-backed model to nurture your childs development and reduce conflict, without resorting to punishments that dont work. Transform Family Dynamics: Move from a state of constant crisis to one of connection and mutual understanding, helping your child feel heard and restoring peace to your household.

Cuando nos toca ser padres, la vida se nos llena de dilemas y conflictos, queremos que nuestros hijos sean independientes pero que no tomen malas decisiones. No queremos ser autoritarios pero tampoco que se vuelvan apaticos, irrespetuosos o que no nos tomen en serio.

From the renowned authority on education and parenting, an in-depth approach to aid parents and teachers to work together with behaviorally challenging students (Publishers Weekly)now revised and updated.School discipline is broken. Too often, the kids who need our help the most are viewed as disrespectful, out of control, and beyond help, and are often the recipients of our most ineffective, most punitive interventions like detention, suspension, and expulsion. These studentsand their parents, teachers, and administratorsare frustrated and desperate for answers.Dr. Ross W. Greene, author of the acclaimed book The Explosive Child, offers educators and parents a different framework for understanding challenging behavior in neurodiverse children. Dr. Greenes Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) approach helps adults focus on the true factors contributing to challenging classroom behaviors, empowering educators to address these factors and create helping relationships with their most at-risk kids through collaborative problem solving and proactive solutions.This revised and updated edition of Lost at School contains the latest refinements to Dr. Greenes CPS model, including enhanced methods for solving problems collaboratively, improving communication, and building relationships with kids to reduce school behavior problems.Dr. Greenes lively, compelling narrative includes: Tools to identify the problems and lagging skills causing challenging behavior and support emotional regulation Explicit guidance on how to radically improve interactions with challenging kids and reduce challenging episodesalong with many examples showing how its done using de-escalation strategies Practical guidance for successful planning and collaboration among educators, parents, and kids including IEP and behavior intervention planningBacked by years of experience and research and written with a powerful sense of hope and achievable change, Lost at School gives teachers and parents the realistic strategies and information to impact the classroom experience of every challenging kid (and their classmates) without relying on punishment-based discipline.

Un niño insoportable es aquel que presenta con frecuencia una grave desobediencia, arrebatos temperamentales y agresividad verbal o física. El autor le ofrece un enfoque práctico y sensible para ayudar a su hijo a: reducir el antagonismo entre él y los adultos; prever las situaciones en las que es más fácil que explote; crear un entorno que reduzca la posibilidad de arrebatos; concentrarse en la comunicación y resolución de problemas. Con el experto consejo del doctor Greene, usted y su hijo descubrirán una relación en la que ambos se sentirán a gusto.