A practical, compassionate, effective approach to helping students with behavioral challenges. Lost & Found is a follow-up to Dr. Ross Greene's landmark works,
The Explosive Child and
Lost at School, providing educators with highly practical, explicit guidance on implementing his evidence-based
Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) model with behaviorally-challenging students. While the first two books described Dr. Greene's non-punitive, non-adversarial approach and described implementation on a macro level,
Lost & Found provides more explicit details on key facets of the CPS model, including using the
Assessment of Lagging Skills and Unsolved Problems and solving problems collaboratively (and coaching others to do so). Readers will learn how to incorporate students' input in understanding the factors making it difficult for them to meet expectations and in generating mutually satisfactory solutions. Specific strategies, sample dialogues, and time-tested advice help educators implement these techniques immediately.
The groundbreaking CPS approach has been a revelation for parents and educators of behaviorally-challenging children. This book gives educators the concrete guidance they need to immediately begin working more effectively with these students.
- Implement CPS one-on-one or with an entire class
- Work collaboratively with students to solve problems
- Study sample dialogues of CPS in action
- Change the way difficult students are treated
The discipline systems used in most K-12 schools are obsolete, and aren't working for the kids to whom they're most often applied: those with behavioral challenges.
Lost & Found provides a roadmap to a different paradigm, helping educators radically transform the way they go about helping their most challenging students.
Ross W. Greene, Ph.D., is the originator of the influential model now called Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS), an approach he has researched extensively, along with colleagues throughout the world. Dr. Greene served on the faculty at Harvard Medical School for over 20 years, and is currently Founding Director of the non-profit Lives in the Balance, adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech, and adjunct professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Technology Sydney. He consults extensively to families, schools, and therapeutic facilities and lectures widely internationally. Vast free resources on the CPS approach can be found on the Lives in the Balance website (livesinthebalance.org), and training options on the CPS model can be found at cpsconnection.com.
