Patrick R. Steffen, Ph.D., BCB, is a Professor of Psychology at Brigham Young University. He has served as an Alcuin Fellow in the Honors Program and as the Director of the BYU Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. His clinical and research interests focus on stress reduction, stress resilience, and biofeedback, with specific interests in culture, spirituality, and health. He is past president of the Association of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback and he is Associate Editor for the journal Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. He is the author of numerous research articles published in leading journals in the fields of health psychology and mind/body medicine and is the author of chapters in the Oxford Handbook of Health Psychology and the Handbook of Primary Care Psychology. Before coming to BYU, Dr. Steffen was a postdoctoral research fellow in cardiovascular behavioral medicine at Duke University Medical Center and he received his PhD and master’s degrees at the University of Miami in clinical health psychology.
