Patricia C. Broderick

Patricia (Trish) Broderick, PhD, is an assistant research professor at the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development at Penn State University, Professor Emerita and founder of the Stress Reduction Center at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. A graduate of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction advanced practicum at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Broderick is a licensed clinical psychologist as well as a certified school psychologist and counselor for grades K through 12. In addition, she is the author of The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals (Pearson), Learning to BREATHE: A Mindfulness Curriculum for Adolescents (New Harbinger), and Mindfulness in the Secondary Classroom: A Guide for Teaching Adolescents (Norton). Learning to BREATHE is also available in Chinese from Big Apple Publishers. For information about Learning to BREATHE and for research papers related to her work, please see: www.learning2breathe.org