Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Good afternoon everyone is Susan Goughtenette Attitude magazine. Today we're

very pleased to have Dr Ross Green with us. He is the author of a book that has saved

many a parent from their own meltdown called The

explosive child also the author of Lost at School and he's the originator of a model

of care that really focuses on collaborating with your child to

resolve your child's behavioral challenges. He is a clinical professor at the

Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and is the

founder of a nonprofit called Lives in the Balance and I refer you to his

website lives in the Balance dot org for interesting information.

Thanks so much and Dr. Green let me turn it over to you and thank you for doing this.

Very grateful for your time.

You for doing this and thanks to Attitude for sponsoring it.

I'm glad to be doing this and always happy to get this information out to people

in any ways that we possibly can.

So let me just briefly, many of your listeners

are probably familiar with my work, but just in case.

My model brings to the table some important components.

Component number one, children's behavioral challenges

are the result of lagging skills, not lagging motivation, lagging skills.

And those lenses have important implications for not only how we are viewing these kids,

very big difference between viewing a child who is doing any of the things that oppositional kids do through lenses of

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