J. Stuart Ablon, Ph.D.
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J. Stuart Ablon, Ph.D., is Associate Director of the Collaborative Problem Solving Institute in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. He specializes in the treatment of explosive, inflexible, easily frustrated children and adolescents and is co-author of Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach. He is also Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Ablon's research focuses on the process and outcome of psychosocial interventions. He has also authored numerous articles, chapters and scientific papers on behavioral assessment and psychosocial interventions for children with disruptive behavior disorders.  Dr. Ablon's research has been funded by, amongst others, the National Institute of Health, the American Psychological Association, the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Institute, and the Endowment for the Advancement of Psychotherapy.

Dr. Ablon received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and completed his pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

 Presentation Title: Differentiated Discipline: Understanding and Teaching Challenging Kids using The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach

Abstract: In this cornerstone presentation, Dr. Ablon will describe the dire need for individualized discipline to meet the needs of our most challenging students. He will present a new philosophy and explanation to help understand challenging behavior in the classroom and discuss the ramifications of this alternative explanation for how we teach challenging students using an approach called Collaborative Problem Solving.

Dr. Ablon will offer a follow-up session entitled: Collaborative Problem Solving: Solving Problems and Teaching Skills with Challenging Students at TIME