Urszula Bielecka

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, the Department of General and Clinical Psychology, University of Białystok; psychodynamic psychotherapist (Cracow Psychodynamic Center).
2006-2014 – psychologist on the psychiatric ward for children at the University Children’s Clinical Hospital in Białystok
2007-2011 – 4-year course in psychotherapy in Cracow Psychodynamic Center (Krakowskie Centrum Psychodynamiczne).

Areas of research:

  • psychological aspects of functional somatic disorder (irritable bowel syndrome);
  • role reversal in families (parentification);
  • mental representations of body in women, elderly people, patients with psychosomatic diseases.

Publications:

  • Mirucka, B., Bielecka, U., Kisielewska, M. (2017). The importance of real age and subjective age in experiencing the physical body by people in the senior period. Polish Psychological Forum, 22(1) 159-175.
  • Mirucka, B., Bielecka, U., Kisielewska, M. (2016). Positive orientation, self-esteem, and satisfaction with life. Personality and Individual Differences, 99, 206-210.
  • Bielecka, U., Mirucka, B. (2014). Psychologiczna analiza przeżyć osób po stracie zwierzęcia towarzyszącego. Czasopismo Psychologiczne, 20(2).