Affiliation: University of Michigan
	Email: ricprice@UMICH.EDU

Richard H. Price is Professor of Psychology and Business Administration at the University of Michigan and Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research, where he serves as the Director of the Michigan Prevention Research Center and is Director of the Interdisciplinary Program on Organizational Studies. He is a founder of the Rackham Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies and has served as Director of Doctoral Programs in Organizational Psychology and as Associate Vice President for Research at Michigan. Dr. Price received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois and was Assistant Professor at Indiana and Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford before coming to the University of Michigan.

Dr. Price's research is centrally concerned with the foundations of psychological resourcefulness and resilience. His work has focused on the development of organizational and community strategies for the development of individual and organizational competence. His research in the Michigan Prevention Research Center is concerned with the impact of work arrangements and economic stress on individuals and their families and with the development of organizational and community innovations to support resilient coping.

Price has received a number of honors, including the Lela Rowland Award for Prevention Research from the National Mental Health Association, and the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Society for Research and Community Action of the American Psychological Association. He has also served as President of the Society. Price was N.I.M.H. Special Fellow at Stanford University and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the American Orthopsychiatric Association, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. He also holds an honorary appointment as Professor of Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Chinese National Academy of Sciences, People's Republic of China.

He has published a number of books and articles on the influence of psychosocial and organizational factors on health, mental health and development. His books include Person-Environment Psychology, Fourteen Ounces of Prevention, and Evaluation and Action in the Social Environment. His articles have appeared in the American Psychologist, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and the Psychological Bulletin. Price has been the recipient of research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the California Wellness Foundation, and the University of Michigan President's Initiative Fund supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Dr. Price has served as an advisor to a variety of foundations, U.S. agencies, corporations and foreign governments on strategies for prevention, organizational development and health. He has been an expert witness to the House of Representatives Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families. He has served on the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Prevention of Mental Disorders, chaired the National Institute of Mental Health Committee on Prevention, served on the National Institute of Health Consensus Development Committee on the Prevention of A.I.D.S., and on advisory boards for the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Dr. Price has been an advisor to the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, and an advisor to the California Wellness Foundation on the future of work and health. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the William T. Grant Foundation, where he is Chair of the Program Committee.

Meichenbaum, D., Price, R. H., Phares, E. J., McCormick, N., & Hyde, J. (1988). Exploring choices. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman & Co.

Price, R. H. (1997). In praise of a cumulative prevention science. American Journal of Community Psychology, 25(2), 169-176.Reiss, D., & Price, R.H. (1996). National Research Agenda for Prevention Research: The NIMH Report. American Psychologist, 51(11), 1109-1115.

Heaney, C.A., Price, R.H., & Rafferty, J. (1995). Increasing coping resources at work: A field experiment to increase social support, improve work team functioning, and enhance employee mental health. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 16, 335-352.

Parker, L., & Price, R.H. (1994). Empowered managers and empowered workers: The effects of managerial support and managerial perceived control on workers' sense of control over decision making. Human Relations, 47(8), 911-928.

Price, R.H. (In press). Understanding and improving the mental health of populations. In J.S. House, R.L. Kahn, F.T. Juster, H. Schuman & E. Singer (Eds.), A telescope on society: Survey research and social science in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Price, R.H. (2000). Prevention: Overview. In American Psychological Association/Oxford University Press-USA Encyclopedia of Psychology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Inc.

Price, R.H. (1998). Progress on promotion of mental health and prevention of mental disorders in the United States. In M. Killoran Ross & C. Stark (Eds.), Promoting mental health (pp. 101-109). Glasgow, Scotland: Neil Baxter Associates & Creative Colour Bureau.

Price, R.H., Friedland, D.S., Choi, J.N., & Caplan, R.D. (1998). Job loss and work transitions in a time of global economic change. In X.B. Arriaga, and S. Oskamp (Eds.), Addressing community problems: Research and intervention (pp. 195-222). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.Heaney, C.A.,

Price, R.H., & Rafferty, J. (1995). The Caregiver Support Program: An intervention to increase employee coping resources and enhance mental health. In L.R. Murphy, J.J. Hurrell, S.L. Sauter, & G.P. Keita (Eds.) , Job stress intervention. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Price, R.H., & Vinokur, A.D. (1995). Supporting career transitions in a time of organizational downsizing: The Michigan JOBS program. In M. London (Ed.), Employees, careers and job creation: Developing growth oriented human resource strategies and programs (pp. 191-209). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.