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CV: Donald Moss
Curriculum Vitae
Upcoming Presentations and Public Addresses
- (February 2007). Pathways to Illness, Pathways to Health. Workshop for the Biofeedback Federation of Europe, Salzburg, Austria.
- (February, 2007). Foundation of Mind Body Practice. Workshop for the University of Lublin, Poland.
- (March, 2007). The Interface between Hypnosis and Biofeedback. Workshop with Eric Willmarth for the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Chicago, Illinois.
- (May, 2007). Foundation of General Biofeedback. Workshop for the Association of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, Daytona Beach, Florida.
- (May, 2007). Moderator, Symposium on Student Research in Psychophysiology, for the Association of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, Daytona Beach, Florida.
Degrees, Discipline, Year, Institution
- Ph.D. in clinical psychology, Duquesne University, Dec. 1984
- M.A. in clinical psychology, Duquesne University, May 1974
- 2 diplomas--German language,literature, sociology, University of Vienna Summer School, 1972, 1974
- B.S. in international relations, Georgetown University, May 1971
Current Projects and Professional Activities
1. Director, Integrative Health Studies, Saybrook Graduate School. 2. Vice President, Psychological Services Centers, providing behavioral health services in Holland and Grand Haven, Michigan. 3. Chief Editor, Biofeedback Magazine (1993 to 2007). 4. Chief Editor, White Paper Series on the Efficacy of Biofeedback and Neurofeedback, Association for Applied Psychophyiology and Biofeedback and the International Society for Neurofeedback and Research. 5. Associate Editor, Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. 6. Consulting Editor, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, Journal of Neurotherapy, and Psychophysiology Today. 7. Co-developer of software suite for the monitoring and retraining of heart rate variability and respiratory physiology.
Current Publications
Moss, D., McGrady, A., Davies, T., & Wickramasekera, I. (Eds.). (2006). Podrecznik: Medycyny umystu i ciata (Translated into Polish by J. Wasovicz-Sztembis & R. Sztembis). Poland: Publication of Biofeedback-Polska.Moss, D., McGrady, A., Davies, T., & Wickramasekera, I., (Eds.). (2003). Handbook of mind-body medicine in primary care. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.Moss, D. (Ed.). (1998). Humanistic and transpersonal psychology: An historical and biographical sourcebook. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.Moss, D., & Moss, N. (1987). (Translation). O. F. Bollnow, Crisis and new beginning: Contributions to a pedagogical anthropology. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press.
Important Conference Presentations
# Moss, D. (2007, October). Mixed paradigms: Reflections on mind-body clinical practice. In Symposium on clinical practice and its place in contemporary culture. Conference on Qualitative Research and Clinical Practice in Contemporary Culture, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. # Moss, D. (Chair & Presenter). (2007, March). Automated psychophysiological assessment in clinical practice. In Symposium on advances in physiological monitoring and assessment. Annual meeting of the Biofeedback Foundation of Europe, Berlin, Germany. # Moss, D. (2006, March). Mind-body therapies for fibromyalgia. Paper in symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, Portland, Oregon. # Moss, D. (2005, April). Moving from the clinic into life and the larger world. In J. Kamiya (Chair). A glance forward: The future of biofeedback. Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, Colorado Springs, CO. # Moss, D. (2005, February). Psychophysiological psychotherapy: Biofeedback and biological monitoring in psychotherapy. Invited address to the annual meeting of the Biofeedback Foundation of Europe, Hasselt, Belgium.
Research Interests
Donald Moss is interested in the development of new technologies and new therapeutic strategies for medical and behavioral disorders, using breath training and heart rate variability biofeedback. In addition, he is a clinical consultant applying mind-body strategies for chronic pain disorders and stress related disorders.
Research Expertise
Expertise Working with Saybrook Students
1. Chair, Student Research Symposium at the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, Daytona Beach, Florida, May, 2008, with two Saybrook students represented, Heather Dermyer and Mark Malay. 2. Chaired Student Research Symposium at the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, Monterey, California, March, 2007, with three Saybrook dissertations represented, Dorothy Mandel, Leila Kozac, and Denise Voss. 2. Recruited student Carolyn Laine as collaborative researcher for white paper on biofeedback treatment for urinary incontinence, paper published in journal, Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, and to be published in book collection.
Research Expertise
Research Expertise Rating Guide:
- studied in a class or have read intensively on my own
- special training in the form of a workshop or equivalent
- taught a class in, or supervised research using this method (research practicum, on a dissertation or master's committee
- used in research myself
- published or presented at conferences my research using this method
Methods Traditionally Considered As Quantitative (But Need Not Be)
| Laboratory Research | |
| Field Experiments | |
| Randomized Controlled Clinical | |
| Quasi-experimental methods | |
| Correlational Methods |
Methods That Could Use Quantitative Or Qualitative Methods
| Action Research | |
| Survey Research | |
| Interview Research | |
| Observational Research | |
| Epidemiological Research | |
| Ethnography | |
| Focus Groups | |
| Self-Observational Methods | |
| Narrative Methods | |
| Feminist Methods | |
| Content Analysis | |
| Discovery-Oriented (psychotherapy) | |
| Events paradigm (psychotherapy) | |
| Archival Research | |
| Case History Methods | |
| Appreciative Inquiry | |
| Multiple Case Depth Research | |
| Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design | |
| Longitudinal research | |
| Cross-sectional research |
Methods Primarily Associated With Qualitative Research (But May Also Use Quantitative)
| Ethnoautobiographical research | |
| Hermeneutics | |
| Grounded Theory | |
| Phenomenology | |
| Heuristic Research |
Types of Analysis
| Simple Parametric Statistics (t-test, etc.) | |
| Confidence intervals | |
| Analysis of Variance (including MANOVA) | |
| Analysis of Covariance | |
| Regression (including multiple regression) | |
| Discriminant Function Analysis | |
| Structural Equation Modeling/Path Analysis | |
| Causal Modeling | |
| Cluster Analysis | |
| Survival Analysis | |
| Nonparametrics | |
| Bayesian Analysis | |
| Meta-analysis and effect sizes | |
| Factor Analysis | |
| Time series analysis | |
| Multidimensional scaling |
