From a distinguished clinician, pioneer in working with
behaviorally challenging kids, and author of the acclaimed The
Explosive Child comes a groundbreaking approach for
understanding and helping these kids and transforming school
discipline.
Frequent visits to the principal''s office. Detentions.
Suspensions. Expulsions. These are the established tools of school
discipline for kids who don''t abide by school rules, have a hard
time getting along with other kids, don''t seem to respect
authority, don''t seem interested in learning, and are disrupting
the learning of their classmates. But there''s a big problem with
these strategies: They are ineffective for most of the students to
whom they are applied.
It''s time for a change in course.
Here, Dr. Ross W. Greene presents an enlightened, clear-cut, and
practical alternative. Relying on research from the neurosciences,
Dr. Greene offers a new conceptual framework for understanding the
difficulties of kids with behavioral challenges and explains why
traditional discipline isn''t effective at addressing these
difficulties. Emphasizing the revolutionarily simple and positive
notion that kids do well if they can, he persuasively
argues that kids with behavioral challenges are not
attention-seeking, manipulative, limit-testing, coercive, or
unmotivated, but that they lack the skills to behave adaptively.
And when adults recognize the true factors underlying difficult
behavior and teach kids the skills in increments they can handle,
the results are astounding: The kids overcome their obstacles; the
frustration of teachers, parents, and classmates diminishes; and
the well-being and learning of all students are enhanced.
In Lost at School, Dr. Greene describes how his
road-tested, evidence-based approach -- called Collaborative
Problem Solving -- can help challenging kids at school.
His lively, compelling narrative includes:
tools to identify the triggers and lagging skills
underlying challenging behavior.
explicit guidance on how to radically improve interactions
with challenging kids -- along with many examples showing how it''s
done.
dialogues, Q & A''s, and the story, which runs through the
book, of one child and his teachers, parents, and school.
practical guidance for successful planning and collaboration
among teachers, parents, administrations, and kids.
Backed 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.