Professor
Director, Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research
Department of Psychology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Office: 1123c Biology/Psychology Building
Phone: (301)405-5932
Fax: (301) 314-9566
Email: clejuez@psyc.umd.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Bio

Background Information

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 140 articles and book chapters, served as PI for over $10 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 three other APA Journals (Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, and Psychotherapy). He currently holds adjunct faculty positions at the Charleston VA (South Carolina) and the Yale Child Study Center. His research is translational in nature using rigorous laboratory methods to understand real world clinical phenomena 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

Crowley, M., Wu, J., Crutcher, C., Bailey, C. A., Lejuez, C. W., & Mayes, L. C. (in press). Risk-taking and the feedback negativity response to loss among at-risk adolescents. Developmental Neuroscience .

Gratz, K. L., Tull, M. T., Reynolds, E. K., Daughters, S. B., & Lejuez, C. W. (in press). Extending extant models of the pathogenesis of borderline personality disorder to childhood borderline pathology: The roles of affective dysfunction, disinhibition, and self- and emotion-regulation deficits. Development and Psychopathology.

MacPherson, L., Lejuez, C.W., Tull, M. T., Matusiewicz, A., Rodman, S.,Strong, D.R., Kahler, C.W., Hopko, D., Zvolensky, M., & Brown, R.B. (in press). Randomized controlled trial of behavioral activation smoking cessation treatment for smokers with elevated depressive symptoms. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Daughters, S.B., Reynolds, E.K., MacPherson, L., Kahler, C.W., Zvolensky, M. J., Danielson, C. K. & Lejuez, C.W. (2009). Distress tolerance and early adolescent externalizing and internalizing symptoms: The moderating role of gender and ethnicity. Behavior Research and Therapy, 47, 98-105.

Egede, L. E., Frueh, C. B., Richardson, L. K., Acierno, R., Maudlin, P. D., Knapp, R. G., & Lejuez, C. W. (2009). Rationale and design: telepsychology service delivery for depressed elderly veterans. Trials, 10, 10-22.

Lejuez, C. W. (2009). Inaugural editorial for Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, S1, 1-2.

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.

Hopko, D. R., & Lejuez, C. W. (2008). A cancer patient's guide to overcoming depression & anxiety: Getting through treatment and getting back to your life. New Harbinger: Oakland, CA.

Lejuez, C. W., Zvolensky, M. J., Daughters, S. B., Bornovalova, M. A., Paulson, A., Tull, M., Ettinger, K., & Otto, M. W. (2008). Anxiety sensitivity: A unique predictor of dropout among inner-city heroin and crack/cocaine users in residential substance use treatment.Behaviour Research and Therapy, 7, 811-818.

Yartz, A. R., Zvolensky, M. J., Bernstein, Bonn-Miller, M., & Lejuez, C. W. (2008). Panic-relevant predictability preferences: A laboratory test.Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 242-246.

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.

Lejuez, C. W., Bornovalova, M. A., Reynolds, E. R., Daughters, S. B., & Curtin, J. J. (2007). Risk factors in the relationship between gender and crack/cocaine. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 15, 165-175.

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). Modeling behavior in a clinically diagnostic 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.

Lejuez, C. W., Hopko, D. R., LePage, J. P., Hopko, S. D., & McNeil, D. W. (2001). A brief behavioral activation treatment for depression.Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 8, 164-175.

Lejuez, C. W., Eifert, G. H., Zvolensky, M. J., & Richards, J. R. (2000). Preference between onset predictable and unpredictable administrations of carbon dioxide-enriched air: Implications for better understanding the etiology and treatment of panic disorder. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 6, 349-358.

Selected Active Grants

“Novel Intervention for Drug Use and HIV Risk among Anxiety Sensitive Heroin Users"