These audio programs were recorded live during Dr. Greene's weekly web-based radio program for parents. But you can listen to them whenever (and as often as) you want...just click on the program that interests you.

Lots of Questions, Some Answers, and an Update
(program aired live on February 16, 2010)
In this program, Dr. Greene responded to a variety of different questions parents have submitted through the Contact form on this website. How do you keep from barking at your child and stop your blood from boiling when your child is exhibiting challenging behavior? Can puberty set challenging behavior in motion? Is it time to think about medication? Why does challenging behavior sometimes occur at home and not at school? Then a dad who had called in for some help a month ago phoned in again to provide an update on the progress he's making with his two kids, and described some of the difficulties he's having getting his significant other (and co-parent) to use Plan B as well. Listen to the archive! (CLICK HERE)

Trouble in Paradise: Dealing with Some Plan B Hurdles
(program aired live on February 9, 2010)
In this program, Dr. Greene spoke with a mom who called in to get some help in using Plan B with her challenging 5-year old son. The mom was struggling with some of the key aspects of using Plan B, especially identifying the specific unsolved problems that were reliably and predictably setting the stage for challenging episodes. But it turned out that the boy's challenging behavior (hitting, throwing) was indeed highly predictable, and very specific unsolved problems were identified: being interrupted when speaking, having things not go the way he anticipated, morning routine, being picked up at daycare in the afternoon, going into school in the morning. These unsolved problems set the stage for the Proactive Plan B the mom will try to do this weekend. A great example of the difficulties parents run into in using Plan B and how to overcome them. Listen to the archive! (CLICK HERE)

Getting Teachers On Board with Collaborative Problem Solving
(program aired live on February 2, 2010)
On this program, two parents called in to discuss difficulties they were having in getting the teachers of their challenging kids on board with Collaborative Problem Solving. The solution: if possible, find ways to collaborate with the teachers on the kids' lagging skills and unsolved problems and try to achieve a consensus on the best ways to go about helping. (CLICK HERE)

Are Psychiatric Diagnoses Necessary and Helpful?
(program aired live on January 26, 2010)
In this program, Dr. Greene discusses whether diagnoses are useful in understanding and helping kids with behavioral challenges. He then talked about some of the characteristic ways in which the Empathy step of Plan B can go awry, and discussed how Plan is not only applicable to adult-child problem-solving but also to problem-solving interactions between adults, including parents and teachers. (CLICK HERE)

Common Difficulties in Using Plan B...and How to Overcome Them
(program aired live on January 19, 2010)
During this program, Dr. Greene discussed a variety of issues, including the difficulties people encounter when trying to "drill" in the Empathy step (and how to overcome those difficulties); whether one should let a kid know that you're trying to do things differently when you're starting to use Plan B (you can, but the proof is in the pudding); whether a kid's lagging skills are taught through mere use of Plan B or whether some skills need to be taught more directly; and whether Plan B is helpful for kids who are very "black-and-white thinkers". (CLICK HERE)

Three Options for Solving Problems and the Ingredients of Plan B
(program aired live on January 12, 2010)
In this program, Dr. Greene provided an overview of the three ways in which adults solve problems with kids -- Plans A, B, and C -- and a general description of the steps or "ingredients" of Plan B. More time will be spent on each of these ingredients in coming weeks. The discussion of Plan B was helped along by a father who called in to describe some of the difficulties he was having in using Plan B with his two young sons, and potential "fixes" for those difficulties were discussed. (CLICK HERE)

Overview of Collaborative Problem Solving
(program aired live on January 5, 2010)
In this inaugural edition of Collaborative Problem Solving at Home, Dr. Greene describes how challenging kids come to be challenging: they're lacking the skills not to be challenging. This perspective represents a dramatic departure from viewing challenging kids as manipulative, attention-seeking, unmotivated, coercive, and limit-testing. Dr. Greene also describes how to go about figuring out what skills your kid is lacking, through use of the Assessment of Lagging Skills and Unsolved Problems (ALSUP). He discusses the fact that challenging behavior occurs under highly predictable conditions, called "unsolved problems," and describes how to go about identifying these unsolved problems in your child. A great introduction to Collaborative Problem Solving for parents! (CLICK HERE)