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Social Climate Scales User's Guide
This Guide to the Social Climate Scales introduces the ten Scales and gives an overview of their use.
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Social Climate Scales
Social Climate Scale User's Guide
Rudolf H. Moos
Copyright © 1994, 2003 by Rudolf H. Moos
The Social Climate Scales are a set of environmental assessment procedures designed to be used by qualified clinicians, consultants, program evaluators, and researchers.
This Guide to the Social Climate Scales introduces the ten Scales and gives an overview of their use.
- a brief description of the Social Climate Scales
- a definition of social climate with reasons for measuring it
- the dimensions that the Scales measure
- how clinicians, consultants, program evaluators, and researchers use the Scales
- practical suggestions for administering the Scales and giving feedback about the results
- ideas behind the Scales and methods used to construct them
- additional sources of information
Use this Guide with the separate Scale manuals, which give detailed information about each Scale’s development, norms, practical applications, psychometric characteristics, and research
Rudolf H. Moos, PhD, is a pioneer in conceptualizing the role of social atmosphere in people's satisfaction. He is a Senior Research Center Scientist at the Department of Veteran Affairs (Palo Alto, CA) and professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University (Stanford, CA).