The Jacobson Lecture Series provides training in Family Therapy. A gift from his family has established a living memorial to Mr. Jacobson in this annual educational program for mental- health professionals. CEU's provided for many disciplines.
Irving W. Jacobson was a well-known philanthropist in the Worcester Jewish community and active in many local organizations. At the time of his death in 1975, he was the treasurer of JFS where he had been active for more than 20 years.
29 th Annual Irving W. Jacobson Memorial Family Therapy Training Program
Friday, October 26, 2007, Beechwood Hotel, Worcester, MA
Ross Greene, Ph.D.
“Collaborative Problem Solving: Parenting, Teaching,
and Treating Challenging Kids”
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Explosive/noncompliant children and adolescents exhibit intense temper outbursts, oppositionality, and verbal and physical aggression. These behaviors have extremely adverse effects on family life and functioning at school. Research has shown that such children may also be diagnosed with various psychiatric disorders, such as ADHD, depression, bipolar disorder, Tourette’s disorder, nonverbal learning disability, Asperger’s disorder, and language processing impairment. Conventional reward and punishment approaches to treatment have been shown to be useful in the treatment of many explosive/noncompliant children and adolescents. However, such approaches have also been found to be ineffective for a substantial percentage of such youth.
Dr. Greene provides an alternative conceptualization of the difficulties of these children and adolescents; namely, that their difficulties are a byproduct of lacking cognitive skills in the domains of flexibility/adaptability, frustration tolerance, and problem-solving. Based on this conceptualization, he provides an overview of a model of treatment called Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS), first articulated in his acclaimed book, The Explosive Child and now in his second book (co-authored by Dr. Stuart Ablon), Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach. The CPS model helps adults teach these lacking cognitive skills while reducing the frequency and intensity of explosive/noncompliant episodes in diverse settings, including families, schools, group homes, and inpatient and juvenile detention facilities.
For more on Dr. Greene's work, go to:
Link to Center for Collaborative Problem Solving
http://www.ccps.info/index.html
Link to ThinkKids.org
Link to Foundation for Children with Behavioral Challenges: http://www.fcbcsupport.org
