Encyclopedia of Social Work with Groups

A founder of the US settlement house movement (upon which the group work method is based) and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 Jane Addams, stated that “social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself”. This encyclopedia is a work that deals with that process; the process of social work with groups, its development, values and methods.

The 109 entries are from 35 contributors in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, Spain and Japan. Both editors are respected individuals in the social work field and along with the fifteen...