ABSTRACT
In 1984 Ralph L. Kolodny and James A. Garland, introduced Groupwork with Children and Adolescents 1 as follows:
Groupwork practice with children and youth has exerted a strong influence on the value system, conceptual framework and technology of social work with groups. From its early emergence in settlement houses, community centers and child care institutions, through its street corner gang period and into its latter day proliferation in public schools, clinics and residential treatment programs, it has been both a creative pacesetter and a neglected step-child of the profession . . .
