Rudolf Moos

Honors and Awards

• Hofheimer Award for Research, American Psychiatric Association (1975)
• MERIT Award, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (1988)
• Lazarsfeld Award, American Evaluation Association (1992)
• Distinguished Research Award, Association of Medical School Psychologists (1998)
• Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research, Department of Veterans Affairs (1999)

Professional Education

• B.A., University of California, Psychology (1956)
• Ph.D., University of California, Psychology (1960)

Postdoctoral Advisees

Daniel Blonigen, Marcel Bonn-Miller, Jason Holland

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Health Services Research

Web Site Links

• www.chce.info

Research Interests

Our research group works primarily on psychiatric program evaluation and the quality of health care. The studies focus heavily on health care programs and the context, process, outcome, and cost of care. To guide our work, we use a conceptual framework that encompasses the characteristics and quality of psychiatric programs; it also focuses on how patients' life contexts, especially stressful life circumstances and social resources, and patients' coping responses, affect the selection, duration, process, and outcome treatment.

Some ongoing projects focus primarily on life stressors and coping among healthy and high risk groups. In this area, we are developing new procedures by which to assess life stressors and social resources in stess-prevention and resistance; examining the concurrent and predictive associations between life context and coping factors and problem drinking among late-middle-aged adults; and focusing on the influence of psychiatric disorders such as alcohol abuse and depression on the family members of affected individuals.

Publications

• Psychosocial Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorders. In P.E. nathan & J. M. Gorman(Eds.) A Guide to Treatments that Work Moos, R., Finney, J., "New York: Oxford." 156-166
• Older adults' alcohol consumption and late-life drinking problems: a 20-year perspective. Moos RH, Schutte KK, Brennan PL, Moos BS "Addiction" 2009
• Dually diagnosed patients' responses to substance use disorder treatment. Boden MT, Moos R "J Subst Abuse Treat" 2009
• How and why twelve-step self-help groups are effective. Moos RH, "Recent Dev Alcohol" 2008 : (18) : 393-412
• Problem-free drinking over 16 years among individuals with alcohol use disorders. Ilgen MA, Wilbourne PL, Moos BS, Moos RH "Drug Alcohol Depend" 2008 ; 1-3 (92) : 116-22