Abstract

ZANATTA, Denise  and  RANGEL MENESES, María Piedad. The voluntary worker and its feelings in face to illness and suffering. Aletheia [online]. 2006, n.23, pp. 113-121. ISSN 1413-0394.

The present study results from the experience of one action for professionalizing training period in Communitarian Social Psychology, carried through a research-intervention, that had as objective the strengthening of a group of volunteers in the northwestern region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul in order to facilitate their work. While hosting the caring volunteer we could offer moments of relief from a suffering until then unshared. During the process we perceived the will of the participants to strengthen themselves and to relieve their pain and, at the same time, the resistance to the proposed changes. We also perceived that the volunteers went through emotional phases that are isomorphic to the phases of mourning and loss, which had been worked during the intervention.

Keywords : Volunteers; Group; Strengthening.

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