Greene - Lost and Found

Copyright 2016 by Ross W. Greene, PhD. All rights reserved.

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For my mom, Cynthia Greene... one of the most empathic, compassionate, resilient people I've known

Previous Books by Ross W. Greene, PhD

The Explosive Child (1998)

Treating Explosive Kids (2005)

Lost at School (2008)

Raising Human Beings (2016)

About the Author

Ross W. Greene, PhD, is the originator of the innovative, research-based approach now known as Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS), as described in this book and his prior books The Explosive Child and Lost at School. Dr. Greene served on the teaching faculty at Harvard Medical School for over twenty years, and is currently adjunct associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech. He is also the founding director of the nonprofit Lives in the Balance (www.livesinthebalance.org), which provides a vast array of free, web-based resources on his model, and advocates on behalf of behaviorally challenging kids and their parents, teachers, and other caregivers. He is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and scientific papers on the effectiveness of the CPS model; the classification of and outcomes in youth with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges; and student-teacher compatibility. Dr. Greene lectures and consults to families, schools, inpatient psychiatry units, and residential and juvenile detention facilities throughout the world and lives with his family in Portland, Maine.

Acknowledgments

I am indebted to my editor at Jossey-Bass, Margie McAneny, for her vision, guidance, perseverance, and boundless patience.

I am also grateful to the many teachers I've had over the years who helped me learn about the research, theories, and models of intervention that eventually gave rise to what is now known as Collaborative & Proactive Solutions, including social learning theory, family systems theory, transactional/reciprocal models of development, goodness-of-fit theory, neuropsychology, and developmental psychopathology. Those teachers include Dr. Elizabeth Altmaier (then at the University of Florida); Drs. Tom Ollendick and George Clum at the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech; and Dr. Mary Ann McCabe and Lorraine Lougee, then at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC. And that's not even close to being an exhaustive list. My own two childrenTalia and Jacobhave taught me plenty. Of course, my original teachers were my father, Irving (who is no longer with us), and my mother, Cynthia, to whom this book is dedicated.

But I am especially indebted to the thousands of classroom teachers I've had the good fortune to work with and learn from over the past twenty-five years. Despite working under very difficult circumstances, often thanklessly, you've taught me what a huge difference a teacher can make in a child's life, most especially those with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges who need someone to listen to them, nurture them, and help and care about them. You have my everlasting admiration.

Introduction

Welcome to Lost and Found. This book is intended as a follow-up to my earlier book Lost at School, which was first published in 2008. In that book, I described the manner in which the model of care I originatednow called Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS)is implemented in schools. The response to Lost at School has been heartening; the book has been translated into seventeen languages, and many thousands of schools across the world have relied on the book for guidance in transforming the ways in which students with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges are understood and treated.

So why write another book on the same topic? Because many of the very same educators and parents who found Lost at School to be helpful have told me they wanted more: more instruction on using the assessment instrumentation of the model (called the Assessment of Lagging Skills & Unsolved Problems [ALSUP]), more help in using and guiding others in the use of Plan B, and more information on organizing and sustaining the effort to transform discipline practices and implement the CPS model in a school. Those are the ingredients you'll find in the ensuing pages. Even if you haven't previously read Lost at School, all of the details of the CPS model are included in this book as well.

But the most exciting aspect of this book is that you'll be hearing from some of the amazing, courageous, visionary educators who have implemented the model in their schools and classrooms and with whom I've had the incredible privilege of collaborating. At the end of each chapter, there's a Experience Is the Best Teacher section that contains their wisdom. They're designated by their first names in each chapter; here are their full names: