Abstract

Editorial Aging and Group Work The word aging is not neutral. It is filled with Jane Myers, and Carolyn Thomas on the need both positive and negative connotations which for those in group work to focus more on the either work for the benefit or to the detriment realities and the potentials of the aging. The of all involved. At its best, aging is viewed as a content of the journal is unique in its focus on necessary and needed process. Fine cheese and the interplay between group work and a spe- on social wine are aged. In business and even cial population that has experienced lon- occasions we prefer the company of those who gevity and is probably older than most who have some experience in life and have “gone work directly with them. Within these pages around the block a few times.” Wisdom, ac- you will find many practical and theoretical cording toErikErikson,can beaproductofage. concepts on aging not highlighted in other Counseling professionals such as Gilbert and periodicals. The primary emphxis here is on the Kathleen Wrenn, Carl Rogers, Donald Super, dynamic, interpersonal interplay of a particular and B. F. Skinner personify the essence of what group