Strategies for Resolving Conflicts in Your Home: Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS)

Speaker: Dr. Dominic Auciello

The CPS model is based on the premise that challenging behavior occurs when the demands and expectations being placed on a kid exceed the kid’s capacity to respond adaptively.

In the CPS model, problem solving is of the collaborative and proactive variety. The goal is to foster a problem-solving, collaborative partnership between adults and kids and to engage kids in solving the problems that affect their lives. The CPS model is non-punitive and non-adversarial, decreases the likelihood of conflict, enhances relationships, improves communication, and helps kids and adults learn and display the skills on the more positive side of human nature: empathy, appreciating how one’s behavior is affecting others, resolving disagreements in ways that do not involve conflict, taking another’s perspective, and honesty.

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This workshop is presented as part of Parkside’s year-long 40th Anniversary Celebration.