Steven Richards Texas Tech University, USA

 Steven Richards is Professor of Psychology at Texas Tech University. He has also served as department chair, counseling program director, psychology clinic director, and introductory psychology course director. Prior to his appointment at Texas Tech, Dr. Richards was on the faculty at Syracuse University and the University of Missouri-Columbia. He served as director of the clinical psychology program at Syracuse and as associate department chair and psychology clinic director at Missouri. His research interests include depression, health psychology, and stress and coping. Dr. Richards has authored approximately 50 publications on these topics and related areas. He has served as editor of SBM’s newsletter Outlook, on the editorial boards of five journals, as an ad hoc reviewer for about 30 journals, and as a principal investigator on two grants from the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Richards earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the APA-accredited program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.