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Throughout a period of almost five years SPA has provided direct and continuous psychosocial assistance services to over 3,000 persons in collective refugee centers. Another 700 beneficiaries were directly served by community crisis interventions, individual and group counseling and therapy.

Various training courses were completed by over 3,000 participants from about 100 communities. These trainees serve about 150,000 beneficiaries in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Austria, Albania, Russia, Macedonia and Kosovo, Ingushetia. In addition, about 900 mental health providers attended regular professional public lectures sponsored by SPA in Zagreb.

SPA projects helped increase the competence of over 60 psychology and social work graduate students who mastered many professional skills providing day to day services under extremely difficult war and post-war circumstances. Within the formal university level curricula, the senior SPA staff taught 220 students at the universities of Zagreb and Sarajevo. At the postgraduate level of training, another 50 students have benefited each year from experiences gathered within SPA's projects.

There are many indirect beneficiaries of SPA's ongoing efforts. These include numerous members of the mental health community who have been exposed to SPA's strong emphasis on highest quality of standards in delivery of services and training, advocacy for supervision as a professional helping dialogue, introduction of innovative techniques such as community crisis interventions, and community-based delivery of mental health services. These efforts are targeted to foster systemic change both within the governmental and non-governmental sectors of care providing.

 

 
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 IX IRCT International Symposium on Torture, 9-10 December 2006

 10th European Conference on Traumatic Stress, 05-09 June 2007