Faculty of Philosophy

Biography



Biography

Milica Drobac-Pavićević was born on 24 May 1979 in Bačka Palanka, Serbia, where she finished elementary school in 1994. The same year she enrolled in the Secondary Medical School in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and finished it in 1998. She continued her education as a student of the Faculty of Philosophy, Psychology Department, University of Banja Luka.

She defended her graduation paper titled "The Duration of War Experience in Youth" in March 2003 and obtained the title of Bachelor of Psychological Science. She furthered her education to postgraduate level in 2003 at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology in Banja Luka and subsequently defended her master's thesis titled "Perfectionism, Intellectual Giftedness and Academic Achievement" in July 2008 and earned the title of Master of Science (MS) in Psychology. She defended her doctoral dissertation titled "Psychological Effects of Exercise and Transfer in Developing Creativity in Intellectually Gifted Students in Higher Grades of Elementary Schools" in February 2014 and acquired the title of Doctor of Psychological Science. She became a faculty member at the Faculty of Philosophy in Banja Luka as an assistant in 2004 and eventually became a senior assistant in 2009. She was elected assistant professor in 2014. As a supervisor from the Department of Psychology she taught and researched in the major scientific disciplines of pedagogy and school psychology encompassing the following courses: Introduction to Educational Psychology, Psychology of Teaching and Learning, School Psychology with Practicum, Psychology of Learning and Creativity in Preschool Children.

She participated in many scientific and international conferences in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia (FYROM), USA as well as in several projects at the Department of Psychology, Ministry of Education and Culture of Republika Srpska, Save the Children, UNICEF, United Nations Volunteers (UNV) and the Psychological Society of Republika Srpska (DPRS).

She is a collaborator in the Višnjan Astronomical Society, Croatia, and the Višnjan Science Education Center, where she has been developing, preparing and running workshops for two years within the Youth Science Camp (YSC) in the field of psychology, which are intended for elementary and secondary school students. She is the official psychologist of MENSA (BiH). She is married and a mother of two children.


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