AHC Guest Lecturers
Fred Bryant	Barbara Fredrickson	Karen Reivich
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi	Shelly Gable	Barry Schwartz
Gregg Easterbrook	Christopher Peterson	George Vaillant

Karen Reivich

Dr. Reivich received her psychology training at the University of Pennsylvania under Dr. Martin Seligman, with whom she co-authored The Optimistic Child. Dr. Reivich is a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Psychology, where she co-directs a multi-million dollar grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the prevention of depression and promotion of resilience in school children. She is also an investigator on a Department of Education grant to teach 9th grade students how to identify their character strengths and to use those strengths more in daily life. Along with Dr. Andrew Shatté, Dr. Reivich co-authored The Resilience Factor that describes skills for increasing one’s resilience and improving overall productivity and mental health. Dr. Reivich teaches in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and lectures extensively to educators, parents, and corporations on the topics of resilience, depression-prevention, and Positive Psychology.

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