University of Maryland at College Park - Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research

Click on the links below to connect to the research labs of Drs. Kim Gratz and Matthew Tull within the Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research (CAPER) at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Kim Gratz is director of the Personality Disorders Division of CAPER and conducts research focused on the role of emotion dysregulation and experiential avoidance in borderline personality disorder (BPD) and deliberate self-harm. In particular, this research focuses on understanding the nature and consequences of emotional dysregulation and avoidance in BPD and self-harm (through the use of novel behavioral/experimental paradigms), and applying this understanding to the development of acceptance-based behavioral treatments for these conditions.

http://www.addiction.umd.edu/pd.htm

Matt Tull is director of the Emotion Division of CAPER and conducts research examining the ways in which: (a) emotion regulation strategies that function to avoid emotions may serve as a vulnerability factor for the development and maintenance of panic and post-traumatic symptoms; and (b) emotional approach and acceptance (such as through mindfulness) may serve as a protective factor for anxiety disorder-related pathology.

http://www.addiction.umd.edu/emo.html