Dr. Epstein To Present New Ideas on Helping Hingham Children with Challenging Behavior

Dr. Larry Epstein, Director of School-Based Services for Think: Kids at Massachusetts General Hospital, will present “Think Differently: A New Approach for Understanding and Helping Children with Challenging Behavior" at on Tuesday night.

 Dr. Epstein  offers a new way to understand and help all kids, but especially our challenging ones, Said Hingham Special Educational Parent Advisory Council who will host the presentation.

Challenging behavior has traditionally been thought of as willful and goal oriented which has led to approaches that focus on motivating better behavior using reward and punishment programs.  Research over the past 30 years demonstrates that for the majority of these kids, their challenges result from a lack of crucial thinking skills when it comes to things like problem solving, frustration tolerance and flexibility.

The Think:Kids approach, therefore, focuses on helping adults teach the skills these children lack while resolving the chronic problems that tend to precipitate challenging behavior. 

Please join Dr. Epstein to gain insight into challenging kids while learning techniques that can work in any home to solve the everyday problems of raising great children.  This presentation will take place on Tuesday, April 3, in Room 103 at Hingham High School from 7-9  p.m.

This event is free and open to the public.  Please RSVP to hinghamsepac@gmail.com to ensure availability of handouts.

Larry Epstein, Ph.D., is Director of School-Based Services at Think:Kids. He is also an Assistant in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at MGH and a Clinical Instructor in Psychology the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

-Hingham SEPAC