false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171940424m/127641.jpg 127641 3 Flexibility and tolerance are learned skills, as any parent knows if they've seen an irascible 2-year-old grow into a pleasant, thoughtful, and considerate older child. Unfortunately, for reasons that are poorly understood, a few children don't "get" this part of socialization. Years after toddler tantrums should have become an unpleasant memory, a few unlucky parents find themselves battling with sudden, inexplicable, disturbingly violent rages--along with crushing guilt about what they "did wrong." Medical experts haven't helped much: the flurry of acronyms and labels (Tourette's, ADHD, ADD, etc.) seems to proffer new discoveries about the causes of such explosions, when in fact the only new development is alternative vocabulary to describe the effects. Ross Greene, a pediatric psychologist who also teaches at Harvard Medical School, makes a bold and humane attempt in this book to cut through the blather and speak directly to the (usually desperate) parents of explosive children. His text is long and serious, and has the advantage of covering an enormous amount of ground with nuance, detail, and sympathy, but also perhaps the disadvantage that only those parents who are not chronically tired and time-deprived are likely to get through the entire book. Quoted dialogue from actual sessions with parents and children is interspersed with analysis that is always oriented toward understanding the origins of "meltdowns" and developing workable strategies for avoidance. Although pharmacological treatment is not the book's focus, there is a chapter on drug therapies. <I>--Richard Farr</I> 122919 1998 The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children total:221|5:2|4:8|3:3|2:1|1:0| 221 871 358 74 4 1 false false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 11:07:55 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 11:14:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Feb 26 09:34:33 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 09:47:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 13 21:01:13 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 21:16:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 15:03:27 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 15:14:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 13:59:25 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 14:11:29 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 19:09:21 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 22:34:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 11:08:39 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 11:16:55 -0800 2009 1. it deals directly with the brain and its pathways - there is actually some scientific basis for the theories behind this book
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