The Explosive Child

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Stuart Ablon speaks highly of The Explosive Child, describing it as rooted in decades of research on kids with explosive behavior and their neurocognitive struggles. He frames it as serious clinical work that emerged from his extended collaboration with the author, suggesting it's grounded in real expertise rather than theory alone.

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THE CLASSIC PARENTING GUIDE -- MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD A revised and updated 6th edition of the groundbreaking, research-based guide to understanding and parenting challenging children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field. What’s an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration—crying, screaming, swearing, kicking, hitting, biting, spitting, destroying property, and worse. A child whose frequent, severe outbursts leave his or her parents feeling frustrated, scared, worried, and desperate for help. Most of these parents have tried everything for effective child behavior management—reasoning, explaining, punishing, sticker charts, therapy, medication—but to no avail.

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  “And he was just getting started there as well. And he was my clinical supervisor for a year or so. And then we went on to work together for about 10 years. And what he was writing about as he was writing this book, The Explosive Child, is decades of research that had shown that kids with very challenging explosive behavior, that they struggled in certain areas of what we call neurocognitive skill or thinking skills.”

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