We are pleased to announce the release of proceedings from the 24th
Annual Symposium, titled Strength and Diversity in Social Work with
Groups: Think Group.  This collection of selected proceedings was
edited by Carol Cohen, Michael Phillips, and Meredith Hanson. This book
can be purchased directly from the Routledge website.

About the Book
How can groups effectively meet the needs of humans in areas as diverse
as aid, responsibility, action, healing, learning and acceptance? This
edited volume aims to address these issues and provide ways to extend
the current reach and quality of social work with groups.

Based on a selection of papers from the 24th Annual International
Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with
Groups (AASWG) the chosen chapters embody the strength and diversity of
the Symposium, encouraging and encourage readers to "Think Group".
Chapters address the future challenges faced in social work with
groups, including issues in teaching group work, holistic thinking
about groups, team-building, staff development programs and
university-agency collaborations to strength group work practice. There
are chapters focusing on how mutual aid groups support trauma recovery,
including one with firemen addressing the aftermath of the 9/11
disaster, as well as chapters that examine group work’s place in
community development, challenging social isolation, mask making as a
medium for growth, and special issues in addressing concerns of
children and youth.

This book will be of interest to researchers, professionals and students in social work and human service fields.

Reviews
"A coherent and comprehensive collection of articles that inform us
about practice with a diversity of groups and ignite excitement about
their breadth and potential. As you journey from one article to
another, it is impossible to lay the book down. I thank the editors for
their labor of love in putting together this uniquely informative
collection and strongly recommend it to you."

Alex Gitterman, Zachs Professor of Social Work, University of Connecticut, USA

Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Caught in the Doorway between Education and Practice:
Group Work’s Battle for Survival 2. Thinking Group in Collaboration and
Community Building: An Interprofessional Model 3. The Genealogy of
Group Work: The Missing Factor in Teaching Skill Today 4. A Cross
System Initiative Supporting Child Welfare Workforce
Professionalization and Stabilization: A Task Group in Action 5. Mutual
Empathy: A Means of Improving the Quality of Emergency Health Care
Services Rendered to Marginalized, Addicted Individuals 6. Assessing
Skills in Groupwork: A Program of Continuing Professional Development
7. The Use of Group Work with New York City Firefighters Post-9/11 8.
Support Groups for Welfare Moms 9. Mask Making and Social Groupwork 10.
Why We Get No Respect: Existential Dilemmas for Group Workers Who Work
with Kids’ Groups 11. Traumatic Grief Groups for Children, Adolescents
and their Caregivers: A Short-Term Treatment Model 12. Group Work with
Adolescent Sexual Offenders in Community Based Treatment