Addiction Health Behavior Center (AHBC)
Dr. Farris, along with Dr. Leyro from the Affective Biological Underpinnings of Substance Use and Anxiety Lab (ABUSA) at Rutgers University, co-direct the Addiction Health Behavior Center.
Our research is committed to improving the physical and mental health of different substance users. The Addiction Health Behavior Center conducts experimental and treatment research in clinical and health psychology from a "Mind-Body" perspective. Broadly, our research aims to understand why and how certain psychological symptoms and conditions, like anxiety and stress, influence health risk behaviors and chronic disease. The AHBC is easily accesible to mass transit, including buses, trains, and the clinical academic building of the medical school.
Affective and Biological Underpinnings of Substance Use and Anxiety (ABUSA) Lab
The REHAB lab works closesly with Dr. Teresa Leyro and the ABUSA lab team. In the ABUSA lab, they seek to identify underlying vulnerabilities that place individuals at risk for co-occuring anxiety pathology and substance use disorders, and/or may serve to maintain associated dysfunction. It is their belief that psychological interventions should be integrative, thus understanding risk factors for anxiety and substance use through a multi-method approach, utilizing a combination of self-report, behavioral, and psychophysiolgical methods can help them towards their end goal to develop targeted interventions to help improve both health and mental health outcomes for this difficult to treat population.
Frequent Collaborators at Rutgers
Department of Kinesiology and Health, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
Robert Wood Johnson Department of Medicine
Robert Wood Johnson Cardiac Rehabilitation
