Making Joyful Noise: Presenting, Promoting, and Portraying Group Work to and for the Profession

This article advocates for better articulating the value and uniqueness of group work, developing hard evidence to demonstrate that the paucity of group work education and training is a serious problem, and developing scholars and teachers of group work who will write and speak about the distinctiveness of group work as a positive, optimistic, empowering and affirming way of working with people.