Email: arcaplan@msn.com

Robert D. Caplan (Ph.D., Organizational Psychology, University of Michigan, 1971), Consultant in evidence-based capacity building for nonprofits in Southern California. His work involves the application of social and behavioral science to promote socially competent prevention strategies. Formerly Professor of Psychology, Director of the Doctoral Program in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Center for Family Research at The George Washington University. His interests include models of coping and adjustment in relationship to organizational stress, prevention of organizational failure to implement new human service delivery practices, and field experiments in promoting effecting adult coping.

His research has involved a wide range of occupational groups covering the private and public sectors. He has been elected a fellow of the American Psychological Society, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the American Heart Association, Section on Epidemiology. He has held NSF and Fulbright Senior Research Fellowships to India. His research team won the National Mental Health Association's Lela Rowland Prevention Award for its field experiments on preventive interventions for the unemployed. Prior to coming to Washington, DC, Bob was Senior Program Director at the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research. He resides in Redondo Beach, California.