Dr. Deborah Khoshaba
Director of Program Development
and Training
Deborah has been the Director of Program Development and Training for the Hardiness Institute since 1989. She holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology, with a specialization in the area of Health Psychology. Over her twenty year career, she has additionally done private practice psychotherapy, taught graduate students in psychology at Pepperdine University from 1992 to 2006, and still teaches undergraduate students at the University of California, Irvine.
- She is author of many articles in psychology, and is second author of Resilience at Work, How to Succeed, No Matter What Life Throws at You, Amazom Press, 2005.
- Deborah is first author of the Hardiness Institute’s HardiTraining materials, including this website’s online version of HardiTraining.
- Deborah has many teaching awards. Her most recent award was Teacher of the Year for 2008 by the graduating students from the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, at the University of California, Irvine.
