Using Clinicians' Ideal Social Climate Ratings in Group Therapy Training: Staff Development, Supervision, and Teaching.

A group's norms are reflected in the group's social climate, and social climate dimensions have been associated with treatment outcomes in group therapy. However, novice group therapists are often not clear about which norms to develop in a given group. We describe a procedure in which clinicians specify their ideal social climate for a therapy group or a treatment setting on the Group Environment Scale (Moos, 2002) or the Community-Oriented Program Environment Scale (Moos, 1988) and compare their ideals with various reference groups and with one another.

Utilization of psychiatric services among low-income HIV-infected patients with psychiatric comorbidity.

Introduction: HIV-infected individuals face a tremendous burden of psychiatric comorbidity. This study evaluates a community health care system's effort to screen for psychiatric disorders among patients at an HIV clinic and evaluate adherence to psychiatric service utilization.

Methods: Standardized screening measures were used to identify participants who met diagnostic symptom criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), acute stress disorder (ASD) and depression.