Prof. Josipa Mihić

Josipa Mihić is an associate professor at the Department of Behavioral Disorders at the study programme of Social Pedagogy at the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb. She is a co-founder of the Laboratory for Prevention Research (PrevLab - https://www.erf.unizg.hr/hr/about-us/organization/institute/prevlab) within which she researches risk behaviors, emotional and social competencies in children and youth, the effect of contemplative practices (mindfulness) on mental health and positive development, and the role of self-compassion and compassion in preventing behavioral problems and promoting mental health with the application of psychophysiological measures, passive mobile sensing and ecological momentary assessment. She leads the project funded by the Croatian Science Foundation "Relations between self-compassion, psychophysiological indicators of the autonomic nervous system and risky behaviors in adolescents“ and is a collaborator on the Croatian Science Foundation project “Testing the 5C Model of Positive Youth Development: Traditional and Digital Mobile Measurement (P.R.O.T.E.C.T.)”. She teaches courses in the field of prevention of behavioral disorders and promotion of mental health at the study of social pedagogy and doctoral study program „Prevention Science - prevention of mental and behavioural disorders and promotion ofmental health“.