The PASS research group is directed by Joshua M. Langberg, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Dr. Langberg was recently appointed the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Humanities and Sciences. Dr. Langberg received his doctorate in clinical-community psychology from the University of South Carolina, completed internship at Duke University Medical Center, and then worked for six years as a child-psychologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Langberg came to VCU in 2011 and co-founded the ADHD Clinic that now serves many families in and around Richmond.   

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. One of the interventions he developed, the Homework, Organization, and Planning Skills (HOPS) intervention, teaches these skills and is now used in many schools across the United States.

The PASS research group, comrpised of graduate students, undergraduates, and a postdoctoral fellow, is very productive with obtaining grants and publishing peer-reviewed manuscripts, chapters and books, and presenting at conferences.