Society for Psychological Assistance
Description: The Society for Psychological Assistance is a non-profit, non-governmental mental health organization, founded in 1993. The SPA has a membership of 37 mental health professionals and aims to improve the quality of life of individuals, groups and communities by strengthening their competencies and resources and to stimulate a holistic mental and psychosocial development of children, youth and families.
A good example of the potentially sustainable project represents the project on prevention of violence in adolescent relationships which among other things includes this topic through an elective course on seven university studies and allows students additional training and conducting workshops in high schools.
Services provided:
- Providing direct psychosocial interventions and support (psychological counselling, psychotherapy, psychological crisis interventions, family mediation, treatment of domestic violence perpetrators, psycho-educations, etc.)
- Education of professional and paraprofessional care-providers
- Research and evaluation projects
- Publishing professional books and manuals
Contact information:
Address: Ulica kneza Mislava 11 (dvorišna zgrada), 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Website: www.dpp.hr/en
Email: spa@dpp.hr
Phone number: +385 / 1 4826 111, +385 / 1 4826 112