Joel Silverman

Prosocial Family Therapy (PFT), developed by Elaine Blechman and her colleagues through more than 25 years of work with families requiring immediate help, addresses the needs of troubled, vulnerable adolescents who are at high risk for diverse bad life outcomes because of their reliance on maladaptive coping strategies. In this comprehensive introduction to PFT, the authors show how to engage, motivate, and support these high-risk youth and their multiproblem families in the effort to promote resilience and buffer risk factors. They review the extensive literature on risk protection factors and construct a theoretical model of prosocial coping. In a clear, accessible language they describe the PFT session, which includes tasks that ritualize aspects of procosial coping, explain methods of longitudinal assessment, and demonstrate the use of client data to optimize the process and outcome of intervention, and the development of a plan for the generalization and maintenance of change. They consider: * youths' community problems such as police arrest, * youths' home problems such as sibling fights, * youths' personal problems such as depression, and * parents' needs and crises. Prosocial Family Therapy For Juvenile Offenders, which includes useful diagrams, forms, and checklists, fills a major void. Outlining the first tested and practical approach to helping an extremely difficult client population, it will be welcomed by a wide audience of mental health and juvenile justice professionals, their trainees, and students.

Born to a Jewish immigrant shopkeeper in a small Alabama town, Morris Ernst used aggressive self-promotion and exaggeration—what he called "exhibitionism"—to transcend his insecurities and his part-time legal training to become one of America's most famous lawyers. During the first half of the twentieth century, Ernst championed free speech, sexual education, birth control, and reproductive health, and his landmark defense of James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1933 cemented Ernst’s reputation as the top progressive attorney of the era. To promote himself, Ernst befriended newspaper writers, authors, actors, politicians, any practically anyone whose work carried some weight in popular culture. But his hunger for respect and recognition, and his need for excitement, led Ernst to lavish praise on J. Edgar Hoover and to publicly defend, and profit from, a Dominican dictator. Ernst thereby undermining his own credibility and largely fell out of favor with the public. By examining key moments of his life and career, The Legal Exhibitionist describes how Ernst's exhibitionism led to his rise and fall and suggests how his strategy of exaggeration anticipated the rise of today's celebrity lawyers.

Understanding your dog's rituals gives dog owners the advantage of understanding your dog - particularly because each dog has its own natural behavior. Rituals emphasizes the importance of taking the time to recognize your dog's need for "the game."

The definition of Ritual (adj.) is an action when it is done in exactly the same way...makes that person feel good. Trainer, Joel Silverman translates this to animal behavior and teaches that you can build on a dog's natural behavior. Understanding your dog's rituals gives dog owners the advantage of understanding your dog - particularly because each dog has its own natural behavior. Rituals emphasizes the importance of taking the time to recognize your dog's need for "the game." Joel Silverman demonstrates how the natural behavior a dog plays out now has the ability to escalate over time. The escalation of the behavior can both be a good thing or bad thing. Either way, that behavior becomes a Ritual.

"Great trainers bond with the animal they are training first, and they learn what animal likes and what he does not like. In short, they get to know them, developing a relationship based on trust," says celebrity animal trainer Joel Silverman. In this entertaining and informative book, Mr. Silverman reminds us that humans are animals, too, and offers pearls of wisdom gained over 40 years of animal training--that the very same principles he uses with animals can increase your effectiveness as a parent, in school, and in the workplace.

"Great trainers bond with the animal they are training first, and they learn what animal likes and what he does not like. In short, they get to know them, developing a relationship based on trust," says celebrity animal trainer Joel Silverman. In this entertaining and informative book, Mr. Silverman reminds us that humans are animals, too, and offers pearls of wisdom gained over 40 years of animal training--that the very same principles he uses with animals can increase your effectiveness as a parent, in school, and in the workplace.