A youngster who "explodes"? A youngster who becomes extremely distressed in response to everyday challenges, acting out in destructive ways
such as shouting, kicking, punching, biting, spitting, and destroying property. A kid whose parents are frequently left feeling irritated, terrified,
worried, and frantic as a result of their child's extreme and frequent outbursts. Nearly all of these parents have exhausted every possible avenue of
intervention, including reasoning, explanation, punishment, sticker charts, counselling, and medication. They are at a loss as to what is causing their
child's behavior, why techniques that have been successful with other children have failed with their own, and what they should do instead.

The good news, according to Dr. Ross Greene, a renowned clinician and pioneer in the treatment of children with social, emotional, and behavioral issues,
is that these youngsters aren't attention seekers, manipulative, or uninspired, and neither are their parents passive, indulgent pushovers. Instead,
parents of explosive children need to take a new tack since their children are lacking important abilities in areas like adaptation, frustration tolerance,
and problem solving. Dr. Greene gives a new conceptual framework for comprehending their issues, based on research in the neurosciences, throughout this
caring, intelligent, and useful book. He explains why conventional methods of parenting and therapy fail so often with these kids, and he outlines
alternatives. The Collaborative Problem Solving model advocated by Dr. Greene encourages working with explosive children to tackle the problems that
precede explosive episodes and teaching these children the skills they need, rather than depending on rewarding and punishing.