TRAINING SEMINARS AND CONSULTATION
Interested in learning more about our approach? Think:Kids staff present to thousands of educators on our model each year. You can invite Think:Kids staff to provide offer a training workshop at your site. We offer all kinds of trainings customized to the needs of your program as well as ongoing consultation to programs looking to implement the model. Please
email us to discuss the possibilities.
SEMINARS
November 13th: Please join Dr. Stuart Ablon and Beth Edelstein for a full-day training, "Think Differently: A New Approach for Parenting, Teaching and Treating Children with Behavioral Challenges" at the Dr. Franklin Perkins School, Lancaster, MA. Click to download details and registration form.
Here is a list of other upcoming seminars scheduled for this fall. Contact information is provided for those that are open to the public.
August 20-21, Dr. Ablon will speak for Southern Oregon Adolescent Study and Treatment Center, Southern Oregon Community College, Coos Bay, OR.
Click here to email for details or download registration form here.
September 1: Beth Edelstein presents at Occupational Therapy Associates in Wakefield, MA.
Sept 1: Dr. Ablon will speak for Brookline Extended Day Program, Brookline Public Schools, Brookline, MA
Sept 3: Dr. Ablon will speak for Osseo Public Schools, Osseo, MN
Sept 10: Dr. Ablon will speak for Kentucky Association for Psychology in the Schools Conference, Hyatt Regency Louisville, Louisville, KY, www.kapsonline.org
Sept 30-Oct 1:Dr. Ablon for speak at Osseo Public Schools, Osseo, MN
October 2: Beth Edelstein presents at at South Shore Mental Health in Quincy, MA.
Oct 8: Dr. Ablon will speak for Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA. Click herefor conference and registration details.
Oct 8: Dr. Albright will present at the American Association of Children's Residential Centers annual conference, Cleveland, OH, 877-33AACRC
October 15: Beth Edelstein presents for Wayside Support Group from 7-9PM at Carey Memorial Library, 1874 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA. PLEASE NOTE location change and RSVP by October 7th to christine_eirby@waysideyouth.org. Click here for details.
October 15-16: Dr. Ablon will speak for Yellowknife Education District #1, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, 867-873-5811 or wendy.wile@yk1.nt.ca
October 22: Dr. Ablon will speak for Oconomowoc Developmental Training Center (ODTC), Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Click here for conference and registration details.
November 2-3: Dr. Ablon to conduct Tier 2 training in Grants Pass, Oregon. Click here for application details.
November 13: One-day training in Western Mass. Think Differently: A New Approach for Parenting, Teaching and Treating Children with Behavioral Challenges. Dr. Franklin Perkins School, Lancaster, MA. Registration details here!
Nov 19-20: Dr. Ablon will speak for Central Alberta Child and Family Services at Ponoka Kinsmen Community Centre, 5009 – 46 Avenue, Ponoka, Alberta, Canada, kwame.Abrefah@gov.ab.ca or 780-360-9292
INTENSIVE TRAINING WORKSHOPS
For more advanced training in the model specifically for educators, Think:Kids provides 3-day intensive trainings. We look forward to announcing next summer's dates here soon. In the meantime, please attend a one-day introduction at one of the above sites to be eligible for the next round of Intensive Training Workshops. A description of the Intensive Training Workshops is below:
Tier 1 training provides an in-depth exposure to both the assessment and intervention components of the model. Participants will practice identifying the cognitive skill deficits contributing to challenging behavior and then learn how to address those deficits using the collaborative problem solving process. Participants learn to distinguish between direct (explicit) and indirect (implicit) skills training, to know when each approach is required, and to practice indirect skills training though Plan B as well as specific strategies for direct skills training both with individual students and groups of students. Additional topics include dealing with common resistances to the approach and troubleshooting other barriers to implementation such as integrating with other models in schools such as Positive Behavioral Supports. A particular focus is strategies for when a child refuses or has difficulty expressing his/her concerns. Implementation in entire classrooms and transforming school-wide disciplinary policies is also be covered.
Tier 2 training is limited to approximately 50 participants who have attended a previous three-day training. Tier 2 assumes basic knowledge of the approach and focuses on helping participants become proficient at teaching the model to others and implementing it under the most difficult of circumstances. Tier 2 training provides much more opportunity for individual attention, observation and feedback while focusing on more advanced topics related to implementation with individual students as well as entire classrooms.
ONLINE RESOURCES
There are all kinds of resources right here to help you learn more about this new way of understanding and helping kids. Our blog can help with the basics, and once you have the basics down, you can return to the blog for more advanced topics. In the next few weeks, we will also be adding online trainings right here so you can learn how to use and troubleshoot the approach right from home.
In the meantime, you can now learn all about our approach at your convenience using podcasts available now on iTunes. Search for Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files and you'll find help for educators specifically in Episodes 48, 49, 76 & 77. You can also go directly to these episodes by clicking the episode numbers above. Click here to download a radio spot from Its Your Health as well.
SUPPORT
Think:Kids recently announced the exciting news that we have joined forces with The Foundation for Children with Behavioral Challenges. Through this merger we will soon be listing support groups around the country that you can join, adding an interactive message board and social networking community to this site for educators like you to connect with each other, and providing other resources as well. For now, please access the message board, support groups and informational materials at The Foundation's website.
BOOKS
There are several books that describe our approach in different settings. You can link to them below.
The Explosive Child
Understanding and Helping Easily Frustrated, "Chronically Inflexible" Children By Ross W. Greene, Ph.D. Now available in a completely revised and updated third edition, The Explosive Child is the internationally acclaimed book in which the Collaborative Problem Solving™ approach was first described. As in prior editions, the third edition describes a more contemporary approach to understanding and helping inflexible, easily frustrated, explosive children at home and school, but also includes the various updates to the CPS model that have occurred since the first edition was published in 1998.
Click here if you want to buy the revised third edition at amazon.com.
Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem Solving ApproachBy Ross W. Greene, Ph.D. and J. Stuart Ablon, Ph.D.
The first comprehensive presentation for clinicians of the groundbreaking approach popularized in Ross Greene's acclaimed parenting guide, The Explosive Child, this book provides a detailed framework for effective, individualized intervention with highly oppositional children and their families. Many vivid examples and Q&A sections show how to identify the specific cognitive factors that contribute to explosive and noncompliant behavior, remediate these factors, and teach children and their adult caregivers how to solve problems collaboratively. The book also describes challenges that may arise in implementing the model and provides clear and practical solutions. Two special chapters focus on intervention in schools and in therapeutic/restrictive facilities.
Click here if you want to buy
Treating Explosive Kids at amazon.com.
Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges and Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help ThemBy Ross W. Greene, Ph.D.
The recently-released and much-anticipated book describing how the CPS model is used to help challenging kids at school.
Click here if you want to buy Lost at School at amazon.com.
