Parenting the Explosive Child

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Rated: Unrated
Type: DVD
Studio: CustomFlix
Release Date: 2004-11-01
Running Time: 120 minutes
Explosive and noncompliant children and adolescents present significant challenges to parents and cause distress to all family members. Such children tend to be quite misunderstood and their behavioral challenges are often poorly addressed by traditional discipline strategies which conceive such challenges as attention-seeking, willful, and manipulative. Research suggests that such children may actually lack cognitive skills essential to handling frustration, solving problems, and mastering situations requiring flexibility and adaptability. In other words, the difficulties of these children may be best understood as a learning disability. Naturally, if a child is lacking crucial cognitive skills, the goal for parents and other adults is to teach those skills. In this two-hour program, Dr. Ross Greene (author of The Explosive Child) and his colleague, Dr. Stuart Ablon, help parents understand the specific cognitive skill deficits that can impair a child's capacities for flexibility and frustration tolerance and provide step-by-step guidance on their approach -- known as Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) -- for teaching these skills. This video features live interviews with parents of behaviorally challenging children and provides answers to many of the common questions parents have about the CPS approach.

Parenting the explosive child
This is a great resource for parents and residential staff who work with explosive children.

Excellent Information and Advice
If you don't feel like you have the time to sit and read a book, but you might be able to find 2 hours to watch a video, this might be for you. Although the information and advice presented is excellent, you'll have to put up with a very boring presentational format. Personally, I prefer Dr. Greene's books or attending one of his workshops.

BRILLIANT THEORY AND TREATMENT BUT ..................
As a clinical supervisor working in an outpatient treatment center I found the "collaborative problem solving method" a brilliant way of viewing and treating behaviorally challenged kids behaviors. I have read the books by Dr. Greene on this after having attended one of his lectures some years ago. I also bought the video and tapes for myself and the staff I work with. I am teaching all of the staff I supervise this method among others for treatment of kids with anger issues as I find it very effective and the results are great so far. HOWEVER the video is long, rather dry, and hard to understand for parents and seems more geared towards professionals. There is no powerpoint and very little in the way of graphics. You basically get to watch and listen to the two presenters and occassionally see the parents sitting in chairs for 2 hours. For someone with one of the possible "executive pathway" difficulties described in the training it is a hard video to watch. You would think the very people who preach understanding kids with problems with auditory processing issues would create a more interactive and dynamic video to address these issues. All of that negative aside though, the information provided is excellent, the theory sound, and you will probably get a lot out of it. If nothing else you will look at your child's behaviors very differently (in a good way) after seeing this. I recommend reading his book "The Explosive Child" first so you have enough background to really benefot from this video. One other note, getting kids to buy into this treatment is the easy part, getting parents to follow through is the real challenge.

Helpful for any child
"Parenting the Explosive Child" presents a practical, step-by-step approach to "discipline" that would be beneficially for any child. Throughout the movie Dr. Greene and Dr. Ablon explain the effects of anger on the child's thought process then give an easy to follow method to help the child think rationally even when upset. This approach helps to develop critical thinking in the child and objective thinking in the parent - both parent and child benefit.

Though I would highly recommend this video, there are flaws. The information is excellent but the delivery is boring and sometimes difficult to understand. As a visual learner I was disappointed by the lecture style delivery and the lack of graphics in this movie. I also found the language was rather high - even with my two University degrees I had to try to look up a word in the dictionary, and with my written receptive/expressive language disorder (I can't spell), that was no easy task.

The best video for PDD children.
My son has Asperger Syndrome and this is the best video I have ever seen about how to handle the explosive times. Which is caused from high anxiety and frustration. Not from bad parenting; wanting to get his way; or wanting to not listen. I agree that the first hour is a bit long with a lot of repeating. But the second hour is excellent advice and guidence. Real life saver information for any parent, teacher, etc. of a child with PDD like Asperger Syndrome.