User:Sabkat2017/Svetomir Bojanin

Prof. MD, DM, MS Svetomir Bojanin (Bolman, 1932), is a renowned Serbian child and adolescent psychiatrist and one of the initiators of neuropsychology of the developmental period in Serbia and former Yugoslavia.

MS Svetomir Bojanin, a child psychiatrist, was born in 1932 in Bolman, Baranja (Croatia). The scientific community knows him as the professor who introduced neuropsychology into the Belgrade University Curriculum and taught it at The Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty for Special Education and Rehabilitation (FSER). He is the author and co-author of 2 university textbooks and several specialized monographs in the field of developmental psychiatry. General public in Serbia became familiar with his work when he wrote the book “School as illness” (1991), in which he expressed his opinions about the inappropriate attitude of contemporary schools towards the mental health of children and adolescents who attend them. After analyzing the changes in this area of interest over the past decade, and discerning that the crisis of contemporary school is rapidly intensifying, prof. Bojanin, in his book “The Secret of School”, as an answer to this challenge, presented to a wider public a model of school as it should be, as well as a complete analysis of the condition in contemporary Serbian schooling. He thinks it is nowadays essential to develop extracurricular activities and thus make the institution of school the hub of social life for pupils who attend it. Prof. Bojanin has introduced a broad range of novelties into the field of child and adolescent psychiatry: socio-psychiatric approach in developmental period psychiatry, expert fields “Psycho-motor Reeducation” and “Locomotion Therapy”; he has also drawn attention to the disharmonious development and has given the clinical picture of “developmental constructive dyspraxia”. He has also laid the foundations for a modern approach in the field of work with autistic children.

As of 2012 The Day Hospital for Children in The Mental Health Institute (IMZ) in Belgrade bears Prof. Bojanin’s name. This hospital opened in 1998 and it is intended for diagnostics and treatment of children aged 3 to 12 who experience complex developmental and emotional problems.

After his retirement at IMZ and FSER in 1998 prof. MS Svetomir Bojanin continues to cooperate with his colleagues from other institutions. He is the member of one of the oldest NGO s in Serbia - “Family Care” "Pomoć porodici"  – where he is the chairman of the professional council and the early childhood development consultant. For years prof. Svetomir Bojanin has been active in humanitarian-charitable work, and to that purpose he offers his expert advice at the Orthodox Pastoral-counseling Centre in Archbishopric of Belgrade and Karlovci of Serbian Orthodox Church. You can visit his Facebook page at this link: "Pomoć porodici"