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Evaluation of the therapeutic shifts on volounteers from the point of the object relations theory
Leonida Kobal
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Abstract: Society for voluntary work and psychosocial help Odmev (Echo) organizes psychotherapeutic camps for children and adolescents with psychosocial problems. The team mainly consists of students of helping professions, who work in the role of helpers as volunteers. The research aim was to find out, what were the therapeutic effects of the camp on the volunteers on and after the camp. The sample contained 21 volunteers who joined the camp 2000. The therapeutic shifts were meassured by the Test of Object Relations (Žvelc, 1998b) and half-structured interviews. The therapeutic shifts by the volunteers, which were interpreted in the frame of the Object Relations theory, have been shown in lower tendecy to fuse, lower separation anxiety, lower social isolation only soon after camp and in the tendency toward decreasing grandiosity and omnipotence after tree months.
Keywords: therapeutic camps, psychotherapeutic outcomes, volunteer personnel, object relations
