Rudolf Moos
Academic Appointments
- Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Stanford/VA Aging Clinical Research Center
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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)
- Seymour Sarason Award, Society for Community Research and Action - American Psychological Association (2002)
Professional Education
| B.A.: | University of California, Psychology (1956) |
| Ph.D.: | University of California, Psychology (1960) |
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Scientific Focus
Current 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
- Receipt of cervical cancer screening in female veterans: impact of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression. Womens Health Issues. 2013 May-Jun; (3): e153-9
- Dually diagnosed patients' benefits of mutual-help groups and the role of social anxiety. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2013; (2): 216-23
- Iatrogenic effects of psychosocial interventions: treatment, life context, and personal risk factors. Subst Use Misuse. 2012 Nov-Dec; (13-14): 1592-8
- Commentary on Laslett et al. (2012): integrating substance use disorder and child welfare interventions. Addiction. 2012; (10): 1794-5
- One-year outcomes of telephone case monitoring for patients with substance use disorder. Addict Behav. 2012; (10): 1069-74
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