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Event Description

Fall Academy: Collaborative & Proactive Behavior Solutions (10/20/2017 - 10/20/2017)

Workshop Description: “Collaborative & Proactive Solutions: Understanding & Helping Behaviorally Challenging Kids”

8:30 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. on October 20, 2017
Hilton Garden Inn West Des Moines, 205 South 64th Street, West Des Moines, IA

Dr. Ross Greene's approach to students' behavioral challenges was first described in his book, The Explosive Child, and more recently in his books, Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges Are Falling through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them and Lost and Found: Helping Behaviorally Challenged Students (and, While You're at It, All the Others).

Dr. Greene will describe his Collaborative and Proactive Solutions (CPS) model, which provides a compassionate understanding of kids' behavioral challenges and a non-adversarial, effective approach for reducing challenging behavior, improving communication, and repairing relationships. This model has been implemented in schools, inpatient units, residential facilities, treatment programs, and juvenile detention facilities. For those new to Dr. Greene's model, this workshop will provide an introduction to the basic themes. At the conclusion of this session, you will be able to . . .

Describe how different interpretations of challenging behaviour can lead to dramatically different approaches to intervention, and why conventional reward and punishment procedures may not be effective for many challenging kids.
Identify and assess cognitive skills central to adaptively handling life's social, emotional, and behavioural challenges.
Identify and prioritize unsolved problems precipitating challenging behaviour, and much more.
Describe the three basic mechanisms by which adults handle unsolved problems and unmet expectations in kids (Plans A, B, and C) and what is accomplished by each, and the three steps or “ingredients” of Plan B.
Describe how to effectively implement Plan B to solve problems, teach skills, and reduce the frequency and intensity of challenging behavior.

You will leave with an understanding of the underpinnings of Dr. Greene's Approach, along with practical assessment and intervention tools that can be brought back to and used in diverse settings, including yours.

Bestselling Books: The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children, Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them, Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child, and Lost and Found: Helping Behaviorally Challenging Students (and, While You're at It, All the Others)

Bio: Ross W. Greene, Ph.D., is the originator of the innovative, empirically-supported approach now known as Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS), as described in his influential books The Explosive Child and Lost at School, and the newly released books Lost & Found and Raising Human Beings. Dr. Greene served on the teaching faculty at Harvard Medical School for over 20 years, and is currently adjunct associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech. He is also the Founding Director of the non-profit Lives in the Balance, which provides vast, free, web-based resources on the CPS model; provides support and advocacy for behaviorally challenging kids and their caregivers; takes a strong stand against the use of corporal punishment at home and school, the use of restraint and seclusion in schools and restrictive therapeutic facilities, and the use of detention, suspension, and expulsion in schools, preschools, and daycare settings; and advocates for interventions that are non-punitive and non-adversarial. Dr. Greene lectures and provides consultation to families, schools, and restrictive therapeutic facilities throughout the world and lives in Portland, Maine, with his wife and two kids.

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