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CURRENT Projects

The HABITS Lab at UMBC is working on a variety of projects. Each project is at various stages of progress, anywhere from the planning stages through data analyses. Our current projects as well as previous lab projects are described in this section of the website. Please feel free to contact us should you have any questions about the projects listed here.

To learn more about Dissertations and Theses by the members of the HABITS lab, please click here.

MDQuit Resource Center

We are excited to be the home of MDQuit, the Maryland Resource Center for Quitting Use & Initiation of Tobacco, aimed at linking professionals and providers to state tobacco initiatives, providing evidence-based, effective resources and tools to local programs, creating and supporting an extensive, collaborative network of tobacco prevention and cessation professionals, and to providing a forum for sharing best practices throughout the state of Maryland. To link to the MDQuit Resource Center, click here.

Project ACTION

The HABITS lab is currently working on a research study called Project Action.  This project will explore the personal mechanisms of change individuals use when modifying their drinking behavior.  Project Action is designed to increase the effectiveness of treatment of alcohol use disorders by creating and evaluating a personal process assessment battery.  This project has been designed to find out how measures of personal process change variables relate to one another and how these variables relate to changes in drinking behavior over time in patients undergoing treatment for alcohol problems. 

center for Community Collaboration

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Psychology Department Center for Community Collaboration (CCC) was established in 2005 as a university-community partnership. The CCC is currently staffed by the Director, Carlo DiClemente, Ph.D., Project Coordinator, Henry Gregory, Ph.D., Consultant, Lisa Jordan, Ph.D., and three Graduate Assistants. The initial projects were funded through several Memoranda of Understanding with the Maryland Infectious Diseases and Environmental Health Administration, IDEHA (formerly AIDS Administration) to provide capacity building and training services to programs that were funded by Ryan White Funds.

As of 2009, the CCC mission is to continue our collaborations with providers identified and recruited by IDEHA within a framework of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) to improve services for HIV positive individuals who have multiple diagnoses related to substance abuse and/or mental illness. Using a Screening and Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT) framework, we help identify programs' CQI needs and provide relevant trainings to enhance their quality of care in these areas. Our primary goals are to promote effective screening, brief interventions, and integrated care for clients with substance abuse and mental health problems. As a part of integrated care, we explore opportunities for better synergy and coordination of services funded by different agencies. For more information, please visit our website. For additional reading click here.

MD3- Maryland MDs Making a Difference

The HABITS lab is currently working on a collaborative training grant with the University of Maryland, Baltimore aimed at developing a comprehensive and innovative residency training curriculum for Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral, and Treatment (SBIRT) of individuals who misuse, abuse or are dependent on substances including illegal drugs, prescription medications, alcohol, and tobacco.  In the early stages of this project, we will be responsible for the development of training curricula and evaluation measures of the residents’ knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes concerning work with persons with addiction issues presenting for medical treatment.  The eventual goal of this project is to not only establish the curricula and training program as an integrated part of the various residency programs, but to also implement and disseminate this training system to other medical systems in the greater Baltimore area. Please visit the project website for additional information.