ABSTRACT
This article reviews the history of recreational, arts, and music-based activities in social work with groups, providing a nondeliberative practice context. The article begins with an overview of nondeliberative practice, then presents various uses of recreational, art, and music-based activities during the Settlement House and Recreational Movements, in mid-20th-century group work practice and in present practice. The article concludes with a review of current projects in the Chicago land area and highlights their potential to decrease young person on young person violence.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank Dr. Mark Mattaini and Dr. Cassandra McKay for their feedback and support as well as the guest editors and reviewers for their thoughtful critiques, which greatly strengthened this paper.