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ONLINE RESOURCES

There are all kinds of resources right here to help you learn more about this new way of understanding and helping kids. You can read the Basics of our approach in our Core Concepts section. Our blog can help with the basics, and once you have the basics down, you can return to the blog for more advanced topics. We're also pleased to offer online training videos right here as well.

You can also 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 parents specifically in Episodes 33 & 34. You can also go directly to these episodes by clicking here on Part 1 or Part 2. Click here to download a radio spot from Its Your Health as well.

PARENT TRAINING PROGRAMS

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.

TRAINING SEMINARS

Think:Kids staff present at conferences and professional development seminars around the world on a regular basis. Here is a list of 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

September 3: Dr. Ablon will speak for Osseo Public Schools, Osseo, MN

September 10: Dr. Ablon will speak for Kentucky Association for Psychology in the Schools Conference, Hyatt Regency Louisville, Louisville, KY, www.kapsonline.org

September 28, October 19 & November 16th: Dr. Albright will speak to parents at the Carlton School in Salem, MA

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.

October 8: Dr. Ablon will speak for Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA. Click here for conference and registration details.

October 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.

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. Click here for details.

October 21: Beth Edelstein will present "A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Children with Behavioral Challenges" in Killingworth, CT from 6:30-8:30 P.M. Contact: Divinna at (860) 876-0236or divinna@comcast.net

October 22: Dr. Ablon will speak for Oconomowoc Developmental Training Center (ODTC), Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Click here for conference and registration 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

SUPPORT

Think:Kids recently announced the exciting news that we have joined forces with The Foundation for Children with Behavioral Challenges (FCBC). 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 parents 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 FCBC's website. Below, however, is information on new Boston-area support groups. Please also become a fan of Think:Kids on Facebook so you can connect with other parents interested in better understanding and helping challenging kids.

In addition, we invite you to click here to listen to a recent interview with Beth Edelstein, the Founding Director of FCBC and now the Director of Outreach and Support Programs at Think:Kids. In this interview on It's Your Health Radio, Beth tells her story behind the founding of FCBC and talks about what the merger with Think:Kids means. You'll also hear Beth talk about our approach to understanding and helping her own child and others.

Boston Areas Support Groups

We are pleased to offer several options for support groups run by Beth Edelstein. The groups offer a great opportunity to network with other parents to learn about resources and gain proficiency in implementing the approach as described in the book, Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach. These groups are free and open to the public.

We offer a parent support group right here on our campus at Massachusetts General Hospital. It is held at The Yawkey Building on Monday evenings and Wednesday morning this fall. Click here to download details and email Beth to RSVP.

Think:Kids is also proud to offer "Baskets" now in its 7th year which is a group in Andover, Mass. that brings together caregivers from the Greater Merrimack Valley Area interested in gaining support while building skills and confidence in applying the model. There are both morning and evening meetings. Click here to download details.

Announcing New Parent Information and Support Groups in Salem, MA

Three Mondays this fall there will be an introduction to the approach for parents at the Carlton Elementary School located at 10 Skerry Street in Salem MA led by Dr. Martina Albright. Thee meetings will take place 9/28, 10/19 and 11/16 all from 4:30-6:00. It is likely the group will continue to convene to support one another learning the model on a monthly basis thereafter with educators from the Carlton School facilitating. Please call 978-740-1284 for details.

Announcing New Teen Sibling Support Group!

We are also thrilled to announce a new Teen Sibling Support Group for siblings of challenging kids ages 13-16 in Andover, MA. The group is cosponsored by The "Baskets" Parent Support Group and Andover Youth Services and facilitated by a teen and an adult advisor. The group meets monthly, on a Sunday evening from 4-6PM. For more information, please email Beth.

CLINICAL SERVICES

Many parents find that our approach is one that they can use successfully on their own. Sometimes, you'll need help to be successful. Soon we will be offering outpatient clinical services through a new clinical service in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. If you need a clinician in the meantime or other referrals, we can help. Please email us and we can refer you to one of our staff members or try to get you the names of professionals in your area who have completed training in the model. We can also help with referrals to therapeutic placements that use our approach.

TRAINING SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS AND CONSULTATION

Think:Kids staff present our approach to thousands of parents each year. Interested in having someone from Think:Kids speak to your parenting group or organization? Just email us.

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 (CPS) 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 Approach
By 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 Them
By Ross W. Greene, Ph.D.
The recently-released and much-anticipated book describing how the CPS model is used to help challengingÂ kids at school. Click here if you want to buy Lost at School at amazon.com.

VIDEOS AND DVDS

Parenting the Explosive Child: The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach is specifically for parents of behaviorally challenging children and adolescents. This 2-hour program provides up-to-date information on implementing the CPS model at home, and features Drs. Ross Greene and Stuart Ablon interviewing and working with parents of behaviorally challenging children. The video/DVD is appropriate for those who are new to the model, as well as those who have read The Explosive Child and/or attended a workshop on the CPS approach. To order a copy of the program on DVD, please click here. To order a copy of the program on VHS from Amazon.com, please click here.

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