Welcome to my blog! I am a licensed psychologist and a core faculty member in the APA Accredited Clinical PsyD Program at Antioch University Seattle (AUS). I teach mostly interventions courses like Solution-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy. I also teach Clinical Supervision and supervise graduate students in our community clinic. My research interests include positive psychology, media psychology, and technology and a lot of my posts are related to these areas. I founded and lead the Positive Psychology and Technology Lab at AUS where fellow faculty and graduate students focus on how psychology can be used to foster individual, community, and organizational well-being in our media driven world. I recently co-authored a textbook titled The Strength-Based Clinical Supervision Workbook (published through Routledge and available on Amazon). My personal website is located at http://chrisheffner.com.

Spotlight on Grit
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Spotlight on Well-Being: We’ve Come a Long Way since Freud
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Learning to be Optimistic
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Self-Efficacy – How We Can, Not Why We Can’t
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Character Strengths and the Virtuous Life
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Grit – Passion and Perseverance
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Building Psychological Capital (Hope, Efficacy, Resilience, Optimism)
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The Real World Benefits of Expressing Gratitude
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