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Soiling Solutions® The Clean Kid Manual V: Treatments for Bowel and Bladder Control
Soiling Solutions® was founded in 1998 by Robert W. Collins, PhD, PC, a behavioral medicine oriented psychologist who validated the specific mechanism underlying the bedwetting (enuresis) alarm.
However, his interest was quickly diverted to soiling issues or Encopresis where the reactions are much more intense and distressing for everyone concerned. Feces are a smelly, very offensive, disease-bearing body product. Fecal incontinence is the number two reason why older persons may be placed in nursing homes. Adults with Irritable Bowel Syndrome may be fearful of going out of the house. Children eventually go into complete denial when they cannot control it.
The frequent result is called Functional Fecal Retention, or FFR, accompanied by a megacolon or enlarged colon caused by repeated and desperate holding and toileting refusal by the child. This can cause problems with bladder function and has other damaging and ongoing physical consequences.
The present dominant form of treatment is merely "maintenance therapy" with stool softeners and laxatives offered with a hope and a prayer that the condition will resolve itself in time. Soiling Solutions® is an aggressive, home-based treatment that works much more quickly in ending soiling, lending hope to all, and leading to an eventual cure though a training process where the daily treatment hour shortens over time as the child's body/mind takes over by a natural conditioning process.
Interested parties can join with other parents and professionals on a unique email forum that follows a step by step process described in the Clean Kid Manual. Everyone on the forum is lending encouragement and valuable insights to sustain this highly effective treatment approach. The only way to access this exclusive forum is by purchasing the "Clean Kid Manual" either from your physician or on the www.encopresis.com website.
However, his interest was quickly diverted to soiling issues or Encopresis where the reactions are much more intense and distressing for everyone concerned. Feces are a smelly, very offensive, disease-bearing body product. Fecal incontinence is the number two reason why older persons may be placed in nursing homes. Adults with Irritable Bowel Syndrome may be fearful of going out of the house. Children eventually go into complete denial when they cannot control it.
The frequent result is called Functional Fecal Retention, or FFR, accompanied by a megacolon or enlarged colon caused by repeated and desperate holding and toileting refusal by the child. This can cause problems with bladder function and has other damaging and ongoing physical consequences.
The present dominant form of treatment is merely "maintenance therapy" with stool softeners and laxatives offered with a hope and a prayer that the condition will resolve itself in time. Soiling Solutions® is an aggressive, home-based treatment that works much more quickly in ending soiling, lending hope to all, and leading to an eventual cure though a training process where the daily treatment hour shortens over time as the child's body/mind takes over by a natural conditioning process.
Interested parties can join with other parents and professionals on a unique email forum that follows a step by step process described in the Clean Kid Manual. Everyone on the forum is lending encouragement and valuable insights to sustain this highly effective treatment approach. The only way to access this exclusive forum is by purchasing the "Clean Kid Manual" either from your physician or on the www.encopresis.com website.
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122 pages, Spiral-bound
Published January 1, 2011
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About the author
Robert W. Collins
17 books2 followersDr. Collins retired as President of the Psychological Services Center, LC on April 30, 2002 with offices in Grand Haven, Muskegon, and Holland, MI on "The Lakeshore" (Lake Michigan) of Western Michigan. He is operating Soiling Solutions from his home. At this early stage of website development callers will often get him personally or his voice mail on calling in. He does all of the mailing, web site updates, consults, etc. on an almost daily basis.
Dr. Collins has degrees from the University of Michigan (B.A.-Psychology), Kent State University (M.A.-Psychology), and Indiana University (Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, an American Psychological Association Approved Program). He was on the faculty of Grand Valley State University from 1969-1981 and in this time period was invited to the University of Western Australia in a suburb of Perth, Australia for one academic year as a Distinguished Visiting Professor. He toured Australia in 1976 giving a variety of talks, including one given to the medical staff at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia where he was introduced as "America's leading Pyssologist". This spelling is actually taken from the Olde English! This hospital at the time had the world's largest bedwetting clinic. Currently the hospital is doing leading research on physiological factors in colonic motility.
His license to practice psychology was issued in 1970. He is listed in the National Register which can be verified at www.nationalregister.org . He was also a Senior Fellow of the National Biofeedback Certification Institute of America (BCIA No. 38--now retired). He is a member of the American Psychological Association, a Fellow of the Michigan Psychological Association, and a State of Michigan Fully Licensed Psychologist. His professional colleagues elected him as President of the Michigan Society of Behavioral Medicine and Biofeedback in 1982 and the Michigan Psychological Association in1987. He has taught other professionals. He presented the results of treating anxiety attacks with group therapy at the 1995 National Conference of The Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. Also, in 1995, he gave an invited paper or course at the 130th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Michigan State Medical Society. He has coauthored a chapter about encopresis in the recently published Handbook of Mind-Body Medicine in Primary Care by Sage Press (2003). He recently had an article on encopresis published in the National Association for Continence Quarterly, Vol 22, Issue #1, 2004.
Dr. Collins has degrees from the University of Michigan (B.A.-Psychology), Kent State University (M.A.-Psychology), and Indiana University (Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, an American Psychological Association Approved Program). He was on the faculty of Grand Valley State University from 1969-1981 and in this time period was invited to the University of Western Australia in a suburb of Perth, Australia for one academic year as a Distinguished Visiting Professor. He toured Australia in 1976 giving a variety of talks, including one given to the medical staff at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia where he was introduced as "America's leading Pyssologist". This spelling is actually taken from the Olde English! This hospital at the time had the world's largest bedwetting clinic. Currently the hospital is doing leading research on physiological factors in colonic motility.
His license to practice psychology was issued in 1970. He is listed in the National Register which can be verified at www.nationalregister.org . He was also a Senior Fellow of the National Biofeedback Certification Institute of America (BCIA No. 38--now retired). He is a member of the American Psychological Association, a Fellow of the Michigan Psychological Association, and a State of Michigan Fully Licensed Psychologist. His professional colleagues elected him as President of the Michigan Society of Behavioral Medicine and Biofeedback in 1982 and the Michigan Psychological Association in1987. He has taught other professionals. He presented the results of treating anxiety attacks with group therapy at the 1995 National Conference of The Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. Also, in 1995, he gave an invited paper or course at the 130th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Michigan State Medical Society. He has coauthored a chapter about encopresis in the recently published Handbook of Mind-Body Medicine in Primary Care by Sage Press (2003). He recently had an article on encopresis published in the National Association for Continence Quarterly, Vol 22, Issue #1, 2004.
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October 1, 2013
Here's the thing. There is more and more information available for parents to help them recognize encopresis (backed up, leaky bowels) and the holding, accidents, UTIs, fear and pain it causes. If your kid has potty training issues--will only poop in diapers or pull ups after attempts to potty train, wets the bed or has other accidents, or has poop streaks in their pants--you need to learn more about it. Any one of a number of available books will help you identify your problem and seek medical help.
But after your pediatrician or pediatric gastroenterologist tell you that using top down laxatives and adding fiber to your diet will solve the issue and you don't see results after 6 months, THIS is the book you should buy. It's not just another "how to" book. It includes a concrete plan for behavior modification and treatment that will actually keep your kid clear and clean. It's not easy. It takes real commitment. But if you are at the end of your rope, you will find a community of parents who have been there and will walk you through it. And if you don't want to wait until you've spent all that money and time with specialists, look into it before you get to the end of your rope.
But after your pediatrician or pediatric gastroenterologist tell you that using top down laxatives and adding fiber to your diet will solve the issue and you don't see results after 6 months, THIS is the book you should buy. It's not just another "how to" book. It includes a concrete plan for behavior modification and treatment that will actually keep your kid clear and clean. It's not easy. It takes real commitment. But if you are at the end of your rope, you will find a community of parents who have been there and will walk you through it. And if you don't want to wait until you've spent all that money and time with specialists, look into it before you get to the end of your rope.
August 6, 2012
An absolute must have for anyone dealing with pediatric constipation, encopresis, or enuresis. Finally an alternative for those who fail under a Miralax regimen.
August 29, 2022
I was reminded about this book today as I directed a third family to this protocol. It’s been a long time since I discovered this life changing book just by googling about encopresis when our family was at the end of our rope. It was the only thing that worked (and we tried so many things— Physical therapy, GI doctors, laxatives, more water intake, colonoscopies, disimpaction, etc.) So many people gave us terrible advice including pediatricians and GI specialists. This worked. So thankful for this book.
December 29, 2019
This book has a miracle solution for encopresis, or kids who soil by holding their stool in.
Dr Collins has written a super helpful manual. I recommend it for parents and doctors.
Dr Collins has written a super helpful manual. I recommend it for parents and doctors.
January 17, 2021
Best book in the world, best book for solving Encopresis. Worth every penny of the 60 quid it costs. Thank you Dr. Collins, from a very happy person.
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