Monika Boberska

Monika Boberska is a Polish psychologist and Assistant Professor at SWPS University's Faculty of Psychology in Wrocław, affiliated with the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology and the CARE-BEH Center for Applied Research on Health Behavior and Health. She specializes in health behavior change, physical activity, sedentary lifestyles, and parenting practices, employing objective measurement tools like accelerometry.

Research Interests: Her work focuses on understanding psychosocial determinants of sedentary behavior, particularly among children, and developing interventions to improve health-related quality of life. Key topics include screen time regulation, BMI dynamics, family crisis support, and the impact of parental practices on child activity levels.

Notable Projects:

• CO-CREATE: Confronting Obesity: Co-creating policy with youth
• MELIORA: AI-based lifestyle interventions for breast cancer risk reduction
• Psychosocial determinants and consequences of sedentary behavior (funded by the National Science Center)
• Explaining Sedentary Behavior: A Revised Reflective-Impulsive HAPA Model

Teaching: She instructs courses on clinical child therapy, rehabilitation psychology, health psychology, and professional ethics at SWPS University.

Clinical Work: She operates as a psychologist at Wrocław's Community Treatment Team for Children and Youth and Early Childhood Development Support Clinic.