This approach has since been used successfully in families,schools, hospitals and juvenile correction settings to help children who have difficulty with transitions, or who are anxious, inflexible, aggressive or explosive.   The Cambridge Health Alliance (Cambridge Massachusetts) Child Assessment Unit has implemented this humane, trauma-sensitive approach in their in-patient child psychiatric unit since 2001.  The unit won the 2003 Psychiatric Services Award for Service Excellence from the American Psychiatric Association.

Additional resources:

Treating Explosive Kids by  Ross W. Greene Ph.D., and J. Stuart Ablon, 2006 

Opening Our Arms:  Helping Troubled Children Do Well by Kathy Regan, 2006

In the Greater Seattle area, one school that  is implementing Collaborative Problem Solving TM is Children's Institute for Learning Differences (CHILD) an independent school for children with special needs, which is located on Mercer Island.

Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Laurie Simons, has received advanced level training in the implementation of the Collaborative Problem Solving TM approach.