Current Research and Teaching Interests:

Carl W. Lejuez received his Ph.D. in 2000 from West Virginia University. After serving as faculty in the Brown University School of Medicine and as the Director of Laboratory Research in the Addictions Research Group at Butler Hospital, he joined the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Maryland in 2001. His clinical and research interests focus on the development of ecologically valid laboratory analogues of addiction and their use to better understand the active ingredients of treatment. His most recent projects involve (1) the creation and validation of a behavioral task to predict adolescent risk-taking behaviors (e.g., drug use, unsafe sexual practices) and (2) the application of distress tolerance and behavioral activation strategies to smoking cessation.

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