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| Dr. Ross Greene |
At the heart of Ross Greene's philosophy is that kids will do well if they can. The point being is that we all aspire to be successful, but sometimes we lack the skills in order to be so.
Some of the hardest children to like are the ones who need us the most. They need us because they lack the necessary emotional, social and thinking skills necessary to navigate their home and school environments successfully.
Far too often, the conventional wisdom around troubled kids is that they lack the motivation to be successful -- or in other words, too often our philosophy is built around the misassumption that kids will do well only when they want to. When misbehaviour is framed as a motivation problem, we assume that it makes perfect sense to bring in the reinforcements which include rewards and punishments and bribes and threats.
If rewards and punishments worked, we would have solved misbehaviour a long time ago. But alas, this flavour discipline is broken -- we need a new narrative.
I'm looking forward to using Greene's Assessment for Lagging Skills and Unsolved Problems (ALSUP) as a means for identifying the underlying lagging skills that are creating unsolved problems.
While it is true that many adults feel absolutely certain that they know exactly how to solve misbehaviour problems, most adults do not spend the necessary time and effort collecting information to establish the underlying causes of misbehaviour. Hence why so many adult interventions for misbehaviour are solutions in search of problems.
Because I teach in an inpatient children's psychiatric unit, I can see Collaborative Problem Solving becoming an important part of my work with children.
If you have any experience using any of Ross Greene's work in your interactions with children, I would love to hear from you.
I'm looking forward to using Greene's Assessment for Lagging Skills and Unsolved Problems (ALSUP) as a means for identifying the underlying lagging skills that are creating unsolved problems.
While it is true that many adults feel absolutely certain that they know exactly how to solve misbehaviour problems, most adults do not spend the necessary time and effort collecting information to establish the underlying causes of misbehaviour. Hence why so many adult interventions for misbehaviour are solutions in search of problems.
Because I teach in an inpatient children's psychiatric unit, I can see Collaborative Problem Solving becoming an important part of my work with children.
If you have any experience using any of Ross Greene's work in your interactions with children, I would love to hear from you.
