Moos, Rudolf H.

(b. 1934, Berlin, Germany). Ph.D. Psychology, B.A. (Honors) Psychology, University of California, Berkeley; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Biobehavioral Sciences Training Program, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco.

Moos is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and Senior Research Career Scientist at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital. He is Emeritus Director of the Center for Health Care Evaluation at the Palo Alto VA and Stanford University Medical Centers. Previously at the Palo Alto VA, he was Director of the Program Evaluation and Resource Center and Codirector for Health Services Research of the Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center.

Moos has made numerous contributions to the theory and methods of the field of community psychology. He has identified and conceptualized key factors in diverse social environments and contributed to the development of theory and methods in research on stress and coping. Specifically, he developed methods to identify psychosocial risk factors associated with psychiatric and substance abuse disorders. He developed a set of 10 Social Climate Scales to operationalize and measure underlying risk factors in diverse social environments. These scales have been translated into more than 25 languages and are widely used in many hospital and community-based treatment programs. His interest in the relationship between social resources and stressors led him to develop the Life Stressors and Social Resources Inventory and the Coping Responses Inventory. These inventories are widely used to assess the coping strategies individuals use to manage personal crises.

[Page 259]Moos serves on many editorial boards, including those of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and the American Journal of Community Psychology. He has published hundreds of articles, reports, and books on the utilization, costs, evaluation, and outcome of mental health services, community settings, and substance abuse treatments. Books he has written pertaining to evaluation include Evaluating Treatment Environments: The Quality of Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Programs; Evaluating Residential Facilities (with S. Lemke); Evaluating Educational Environments: Procedures, Methods, Findings and Policy Implications; and Evaluating Correctional and Community Settings.

He is the recipient of many awards and honors, notably the Hofheimer Award for Research, American Psychiatric Association; Distinguished Contribution Award, Division of Community Psychology, American Psychological Association; MERIT Award, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; the 1992 Paul Lazarsfeld Award for Evaluation Theory, American Evaluation Association; Distinguished Research Award, Association of Medical School Psychologists; Outstanding Achievement in Health Services, Department of Veteran Affairs; and the 2002 Seymour B. Sarason Award, Division of Community Psychology, American Psychological Association.