Dr. Lejuez received his Ph.D. in 2000 from West Virginia University. After completing a Clinical Internship at the Brown University Brown Clinical Psychology Training Consortium he joined the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Maryland in 2001. He has published over 160 articles and book chapters, served as PI for over $13 million in NIH grant funding, and received Early Career Awards from the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 3 (Experimental Psychology; Applied Category), the APA Division 50 (Addictions), and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT, formerly AABT). Dr. Lejuez was promoted to Professor in 2008 and he is the founder and current Director of the Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research (CAPER). He is the Founding Editor of the APA Journal Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, and serves on the editorial board of two other APA Journals (Psychology of Addictive Behaviors and Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology). He currently holds adjunct faculty positions at the Charleston VA (South Carolina) and the Yale Child Study Center. His research is translational in nature applying laboratory methods to understand real world clinical problems and to develop novel assessment and treatment strategies. His research spans the clinical domains of addictions, personality pathology, and mood disorders, and he is most interested in the common processes across these conditions. In conjunction with an active research program, Dr. Lejuez is very committed to student research mentorship with his students publishing at a high rate, competing successfully for NIH fellowships, and obtaining top clinical science internships. In line with this focus, he received the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Undergraduate and Graduate Mentorship Award in 2006.
Key Publications:
Lejuez, C. W., Hopko, D. R., Acierno, R., Daughters, S. B., & Pagoto, S. L. (in press). Ten Year Revision of the Brief Behavioral Activation Treatment for Depression (BATD): Revised Treatment Manual (BATD-R). Behavior Modification.
Bornovalova, M. A., Levy, R., Gratz, K. L., & Lejuez, C. W. (2010). Understanding the heterogeneity of BPD symptoms through latent class analysis: Initial results and clinical correlates among inner-city substance users. Psychological Assessment, 22, 233-245.
Lejuez, C. W. (2010). Inaugural editorial for Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 1, 1-2.
Lejuez, C. W., Magidson, J. F., Mitchell, S. H., Sinha, Stevens, M. C., & de Wit, H. (2010). Behavioral and Biological Indicators of Impulsivity in the Development of Alcohol Use, Problems, and Disorders. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 34, 1334-1345.
MacPherson, L., Tull, M. T., Matusiewicz, A., Rodman, S., Strong, D.R., Kahler, C.W., Hopko, D., Zvolensky, M., Brown, R. B., & Lejuez, C.W. (2010). Randomized controlled trial of behavioral activation smoking cessation treatment for smokers with elevated depressive symptoms. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 78, 55-71.
Matusiewicz, A. M., Hopwood, C. J., Banducci, A.N., & Lejuez, C.W. (2010). The Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Personality Disorders. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 33, 657-685.
Sadeh, N, Javdani, S., Jackson, J., Reynolds, E. K., Potenza. M. P., Gelernter, J. G., Lejuez, C. W., & Verona, E. (2010). Serotonin Transporter Gene Associations with Psychopathic Traits in Youth Vary as a Function of Socioeconomic Resources. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119, 604-609.
Crowley, M., Wu, J., Crutcher, C., Bailey, C. A., Lejuez, C. W., & Mayes, L. C. (2009). Risk-taking and feedback negativity in response to loss in adolescence. Developmental Neuroscience, 31, 137-148.
Daughters, S. B., Braun, A. R., Sargeant, M., Reynolds, E. R., Hopko, D., Blanco, C., & Lejuez, C. W. (2008). Effectiveness of a brief behavioral treatment for inner-city illicit drug users with elevated depressive symptoms: The Life Enhancement Treatment for Substance Use (LETS ACT!). Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 69, 122-129.
Lejuez, C. W., Aklin, W. M., Daughters, S. B., Zvolensky, M. J., Kahler, C. W., & Gwadz, M. (2007). Reliability and validity of the youth version of the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART-Y) in the assessment of risk-taking behavior among inner-city adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 36, 106-111.
Gratz, K. L., Rosenthal, M. Z., Tull, M. T., Lejuez, C. W., & Gunderson, J. G. (2006). An experimental investigation of emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115, 850-855.
Lejuez, C.W., Hopko, D. R., Levine, S., Gholkar, R., & Collins, L. M. (2006). The therapeutic alliance in behavior therapy. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 42, 456-468.
Daughters, S. B., Lejuez, C. W., Bornovalova, M. A., Kahler, C. W., Strong, D. R., & Brown, R. A. (2005). Distress tolerance as a predictor of early treatment dropout in a residential substance abuse treatment facility. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 114, 729-734.
Lejuez, C. W., Bornovalova, M., Daughters, S. B., & Curtin, J. J. (2005). Differences in impulsivity and sexual risk-taking behavior among inner-city crack/cocaine and heroin users. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 77, 169-175.
Wallsten, T. W, Pleskac, T., & Lejuez, C. W. (2005). Cognitive modeling of a sequential risk-taking task. Psychological Review, 112, 862-880.
Brown, R. A., Lejuez, C. W., Kahler, C. W., & Strong, D. (2002). Distress tolerance and duration of past smoking cessation attempts. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 111, 180-185.
Lejuez, C. W., Read, J. P., Kahler, C. W., Richards, J. B., Ramsey, S. E., Stuart, G. L., Strong, D. R., & Brown, R. A. (2002). Evaluation of a behavioral measure of risk-taking: The Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 8, 75-84.
Selected Active Grants:
Integration of Basic Neuroscience Research into Addiction Treatment Development
Co-PI: Cynthia Moss
Agency: National Institute of Drug Abuse
Type and Number: T32 DA28855 (Institutional Pre-doctoral Training Program)
Period: 7/15/10-6/30/15
Total Costs = $759,000
Behavioral Technologies for Predicting HIV Risk
Agency: National Institute of Drug Abuse
Type and Number: R01 DA18647 (Competitive Renewal years 6-10, previous PI: Lejuez)
Period: 7/1/10-6/30/15
Total Costs = $2,957,000
Novel Intervention for Drug Use and HIV Risk among Anxiety Sensitive Heroin Users
Agency: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Type and Number: R01 DA23384
Period: 08/01/09 – 07/31/12
Total Costs = $750,000
Behavioral Measurement of Negative Reinforcement in Adolescent Alcohol Use/Abuse
Agency: National Institute of Alcohol Abuse, and Alcoholism
Type and Number: R21 AA017685
Period: 04/10/09 – 03/31/12
Total Costs = $400,000
Drug Choice, Impulsivity, and Risky Sexual Behavior
Principal Investigator: Carl W. Lejuez, Ph.D.
Agency: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Type and Number: R01 DA19405
Period: 6/01/06 – 5/31/11
Total Costs = $1,250,000
Primary Mentor on Funded Student Grants over the Last 5 years:
6 NIDA NRSA Grants (1 other currently under review)
5 NIDA Minority Supplements (1 currently under review)
2 NIDA R36 Dissertation Grants (1 currently under review)
Courses Taught:
Graduate
Fundamentals of Clinical Psychology
Basic Foundations of Psychological Interventions
Clinical Laboratory
Seminar in Addictive Behaviors
Undergraduate
Special Topics in the Assessment and Treatment of Addictive Behaviors
Clinical Psychology Program • Department of Psychology • University
of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742-4411 • phone: 301-405-5890 • fax:
301-314-9566 • email: jcoldren@psyc.umd.edu
