USING PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUES IN THE EVALUATION OF GROUPS FOR CHILDREN OF REHABILITATING DRUG ADDICTS

Abstract

Evaluators and researchers often have to deal with situations in which conventional research tools are impossible to use, either because of the characteristics of a population or unclear research variables. This paper presents a technique that succeeds in overcoming this kind of problem—a projective technique, but one that differs from the usual approach to projective techniques. The approach presented here is a hermeneutic one that assumes an interpretive process. By means of an example, this paper presents the process of working with projective techniques and concludes with a discussion of this approach.

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¹The evaluation process was funded by the National Insurance Institute of Israel, the unit for demonstrating projects. For details of the program and the full evaluation process, see [Bar-On, Levin-Rozalis, & Yodelevictz (2000)].