Dr. Graziano is a Licensed Psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the Center for Children and Families at Florida International University. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2009 followed by two postdoctoral fellowships with the first focused on Child/Pediatric Psychology at the University of Florida while the second was an Institute of Educational Sciences (IES)-Department of Education funded position focused on intervention research for children with disruptive behavior disorders.

As the Director of the S.E.L.F.-Regulation Laboratory, his research strives to integrate theory and methods from developmental psychology and neuroscience to examine the development of children’s self-regulation skills and how such processes can be applied to the understanding and treatment of ADHD and related comorbidities.

His work has been supported by both federal grants (e.g., the National Institute of Mental Health, IES) and local agencies (e.g., The Children’s Trust) and has resulted in over 100 peer reviewed scientific articles along with 100+ talks and posters at national and international conferences and meetings. Clinically, he directs a Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) clinic at FIU along with a summer treatment program for young children (ages 4 to 6) with ADHD and related comorbidities who are transitioning to and from kindergarten (STP-K).