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Rudolf Moos
Academic Appointments
Professional Snapshot
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
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
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Scientific Focus
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 New York: Oxford.. 156-166
- Characteristics of depressed and nondepressed adult offspring of depressed and matched nondepressed parents. J Affect Disord. 2009; (1-2): 56-65
- Patients' abstinence status affects the benefits of 12-step self-help group participation on substance use disorder outcomes. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2009; (1-3): 115-22
- Treated and untreated remission from problem drinking in late life: post-remission functioning and health-related quality of life. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2009; (1-3): 150-9
- Older adults' alcohol consumption and late-life drinking problems: a 20-year perspective. Addiction. 2009; (8): 1293-302
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