Joshua M. Langberg, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, Professor of Psychology, and Director of the Center for Youth Social Emotional Wellness (CYSEW) at Rutgers University. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina in 2006 and completed a pre-doctoral internship at Duke University Medical Center and postdoctoral fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC).
He worked at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) prior to transitioning to Rutgers and served as the Associate Dean of Research and the Associate Director of the Clark-Hill Institute for Positive Youth Development at VCU. He is the author or co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications, Editor-In-Chief of the journal Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (RCAP), and has served as the principal investigator on several grant awards from NIMH and IES.
His clinical and research interests focus on improving the academic and behavioral functioning of youth with ADHD and the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices in school settings. Dr. Langberg’s main research and clinical interests surround the development of interventions to improve the academic and behavioral functioning of adolescents with ADHD. He focuses on developing interventions that are brief, cost-effective, and feasible to implement. His work is community-based and he has developed interventions for community pediatric and school settings. He has a particular interest in teaching adolescents with and without ADHD to independently use important academic and life skills such as organization and time-management skills.