ABSTRACT
Our special editors, James Garland and Ralph Kolodny, throughout their distinguished careers have been cognizant of the close relationship between the origins of the social group work method and early professional work with children and youth. In this special issue of Social Work with Groups their devotion to this linkage is continued and enlarged to include other practitioners and theorists who contribute further to an understanding of the critical interdependence of childhood and adolescent development with group and peer experiences.
