Ross W. Greene
Clinical child psychologist and author
Ross W. Greene is an American child psychologist who originated the Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) approach to children's challenging behavior.
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American Born 1957 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
About Ross W. Greene
Greene is a clinical child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author. He created the evidence-based Collaborative & Proactive Solutions model, a non-punitive way to understand and reduce challenging behavior in children, and he explains it in The Explosive Child. He spent more than 20 years on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. He later founded the non-profit Lives in the Balance, which offers free online resources on his approach and speaks up for children with social, emotional and behavioral challenges, along with their caregivers. Greene also speaks out against punitive, exclusionary school discipline, such as suspension and expulsion.