Denise F. Polit and Bernadette P. Hungler. As mentioned above, these are good for narrowing down a topic. For specific aspects of a topic, use scholarly journals, such as Journal for Specialists in Group Work , Journal of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy, or other journals addressed to social work, counseling and psychology audiences. For information on what has been done over time, use books, bibliographies, scholarly journals, newspapers or government documents. For the most up to date information, use articles from scholarly journals.
Books are good for concepts, history and theory.
However, due to the length of time it takes to get a book published, books will not contain the most recent information. The general topic is group work with high risk youth. FirstSearch s Periodical Abstracts supplies the full-text of Research on Social Work Practice , Social Work and Health and Social Work . Group work is interdisciplinary. Website contains tables of contents to journals published from March 1997 to present.