Editorial

The first issue of ANALI PAZU HD this year brings four interesting articles that cover various fields of social sciences and humanities. The first article deals with the psychological consequences of coping with chronic pain in adolescents. The authors of the paper conducted a pilot study (among ten adolescent girls with an average age of 14.9 years). The results of this study (based on the responsible groups of adolescents and the assessment of their parents) were compared with normative data. The authors note that all adolescents included in the study cope with the consequences of chronic illness, especially anxiety and depression. He emphasizes that the assessment of psychological consequences and their precise key are key to further planning psychological treatments and therapies. The second paper presents a new teaching method, counseling mentoring. The paper covers the theoretical treatment of this method and the empirical research. The author presents the results of the introduction of this method (two tools) in process education (in the study subjects Mathematical Modeling and Business Economics and Management in the period 2019/2020 and 2020/2021). The results of the research show that the lecturer and the student, with the help of counseling mentoring, make progress in achieving the set goal. The author thus recommends the introduction of this method in the educational process. The third article deals with the current topic of the Covid-19 pandemic, given the geopolitical changes as a consequence of the pandemic. As the key economic issue of the COVID-19 pandemic, the author raises the question of whether this is just a severe recession or a wave of economic depression. The article analyzes the geopolitical situation in the world. The author states that there is a high expectation that the country, based on the experience of the first year of the epidemic in 2021, will be able to vaccinate the population, normalize public life and start the economy at full speed. This would prevent a deep recession from escalating into a depression without changing the geopolitical world order. The author noted that it did not happen as expected and solutions will have to be expected in the coming years. The last article deals with the genesis and operational characteristics of the war of independence in Prekmurje and Prlekija 30 years ago. The author notes that the case of the province along the Mura clearly shows the characteristics of the operational activities of the Yugoslav People's Army and the peculiarities of the activities of the Slovenian Defense Forces. From these characteristics, the author then draws conclusions about the genesis and operational characteristics of the war in the Republic of Slovenia and about the intentions to forcibly prevent Slovenian independence. You are invited to read!

Darja Senčur Peček, Editor-in-Chief

Editor-in-Chief: Darja Senčur Peček (University of Maribor, Faculty of Law, Slovenia)

Co-editor for Social Science: Metka Kuhar (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Slovenia)

Co-editor for Humanities: Jana S. Rošker (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Philosophy, Slovenia); Vesna Koncrič Horvat (University of Maribor, Faculty of Arts, Slovenia); Damir Josipovič (Institute for National Issues, Slovenia); Darja Kerec (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Slovenia)

Technical editor: Petra Cajnko (University of Maribor, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Slovenia)