Bret Kloos
Biographic Data
| ID | 4492172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bret Kloos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bret |
| FAMILY NAME | Kloos |
| SIGNATURE | KLOOS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 257 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Bridging health self‐efficacy and patient engagement with patient‐centered culturally sensitive health care for Black American adults
This study investigates whether systems‐level interventions, specifically patient‐centered culturally sensitive health care (PC‐CSHC) from healthcare providers, office staff, and the clinic environment, moderate the relationship between health self‐efficacy and patient engagement among Black American adults. An online survey was completed by 198 Black American adults. PC‐CSHC from healthcare providers, office staff, and the clinic environment did…
Examining civic engagement in ethnic minority youth populations: A literature review and concept analysis
Racial reckoning is defined as the subjugation of Black, Indigenous, and people of Color (BIPOC) to racial hierarchies and subordinate groups that influence multiple well‐being outcomes throughout the developmental lifespan and across generations. With the two pandemics of racial reckoning and COVID‐19 amidst a growing controversial political landscape, topics around civic engagement have been brought to the forefront of community conversation. D…
Attitudes toward Homelessness Inventory: A psychometric analysis
The Attitudes toward Homelessness Inventory (ATHI) was developed due to a lack of psychometrically sound instruments to measure the nature and change in attitudes toward homelessness. Given inconsistencies in its use and internal reliability, this study evaluates the psychometric properties of the ATHI. Participants (n = 899) were selected using a random-digit-dial telephone survey to complete the ATHI. Results demonstrated that the four-factor s…
With Politics, It’s Easier to Talk to Them About It”: Peer Racial Socialization and Sociopolitical Development Among Black College Students
With the increased frequency of highly publicized racism in the United States, the engagement of racial socialization among Black emerging adults and their peers is critical for navigating their racial experiences and organizing for change as evident in social movements led by young adults (e.g., Black Lives Matter). However, little is known about the process of peer racial socialization and its relation to sociopolitical development. In this stu…
Beyond disciplinary boundaries: Speaking back to critical knowledges, liberation, and community
This article explores critical directions for forging new disciplinary traditions within community psychology, as discussed by a panel at the conclusion of the 6th International Conference on Community Psychology (ICCP 2016). The conference itself was constructed as an enactment of a decolonizing approach, looking at the entire globalized system from the African continent and centring knowledges produced by Africans and the diaspora. Several pane…
Cultivating Community Psychology for Future Generations: Symbiosis, Synergy, and Separation
As we near the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of a community psychology division of the American Psychological Association, there are reasons to be concerned about the sustainability of the field. This commentary proposes a need for deliberate, systematic efforts to cultivate settings that can sustain the field. A framework for outreach to build symbiotic relationships and synergistic collaborations with persons who do not identify as commu…
Prevention Research
Relationships among religious coping, optimism, and outcomes for persons with psychiatric disabilities
Previous Homelessness as a Risk Factor for Recovery from Serious Mental Illnesses
Mind Over Matter? The Role of Individual Perceptions in Understanding the Social Ecology of Housing Environments for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
There is a disagreement in place‐based research regarding whether objective indicators or individual perceptions of environments are better predictors of well‐being. This study assessed environmental influences on well‐being for 373 individuals with psychiatric disabilities living independently in 66 neighborhoods in the southeastern United States. Three questions were examined utilizing random effects models: (1) How much variance in personal an…
A Little Goes a Long Way: The Impact of Distal Social Support on Community Integration and Recovery of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
Although an extensive body of literature highlights the important role of social support for individuals with psychiatric disabilities, definitions of support tend to be restricted—focusing on intimate relationships such as friend and family networks and ignoring the role of casual relationships existing naturally in the community. This mixed‐methods study of 300 consumers of mental health services in the Southeastern US aims to better understand…
Community PsychologyAcknowledgment: We would like to acknowledge the contributions of the authors of this chapter in the first edition of this volume: Bianca D. M. Wilson, Erin Hayes, George J. Greene…
Community psychology is concerned with the many ways that individual lives and well-being are inextricably interwoven with social systems and collective well-being. In this chapter, we explore, in historical perspective, how community psychologists engage in research and action in multiple levels of communities. We review the early development of the field in the United States and internationally, before and after the Swampscott conference in 196…
Reconcilable Differences? Human Diversity, Cultural Relativity, and Sense of Community
Sense of community (SOC) is one of the most widely used and studied constructs in community psychology. As proposed by Sarason in (The Psychological sense of community: prospects for a community psychology, Jossey‐Bass, San Francisco, 1974 ), SOC represents the strength of bonding among community members. It is a valuable component of community life, and it has been linked to positive mental health outcomes, citizen participation, and community c…
Community Psychology: Linking Individuals and Communities
Examining the Psychological Sense of Community for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness Residing in Supported Housing Environments
Facilitating Youth Participation in a Context of Forced Migration: A Photovoice Project in Northern Uganda
This paper describes a documentary photography (Photovoice) project conducted in 2007 with young people (ages 12 to 16) living in an internal displacement camp in northern Uganda during a time of great transition following more than 20 years of civil war. Twelve students were randomly selected from three schools after several weeks of instruction in English and photography. Over the course of six weeks, students used digital cameras to document l…
What It Means To Be a Woman: ” Ambivalent Sexism in Female College Students’ Experiences and Attitudes
A Social Ecological Approach to Investigating Relationships Between Housing and Adaptive Functioning for Persons with Serious Mental Illness
This paper seeks to advance mental health—housing research regarding which factors of housing and neighborhood environments are critical for adaptive functioning, health, and recovery for persons with serious mental illness (SMI). Housing and neighborhood environments are particularly important for persons with SMI because of the prevalence of poor housing conditions among this population. Most mental health—housing research has been limited by a…
Development of a measure of sense of community for individuals with serious mental illness residing in community settings
The psychological sense of community is one of the most commonly investigated constructs in community psychology. Sense of community may be particularly important for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) because they often face societal barriers to participation in community living, including stigma and discrimination. To date, no published studies have investigated the psychometric qualities of sense of community measures among individu…
Understanding the experience of place: Expanding methods to conceptualize and measure community integration of persons with serious mental illness
Housing environment and mental health outcomes: A levels of analysis perspective
Science and Community Psychology: Enhancing the Vitality of Community Research and Action
Negotiating Risk: Knowledge and Use of HIV Prevention by Persons With Serious Mental Illness Living in Supportive Housing
As a population, persons with serious mental illness (SMI) have an elevated risk for HIV infection. However, relatively little is known about how the risk of HIV has affected their lives, how persons with SMI evaluate their HIV risk, and what preventive measures they undertake. Furthermore, relatively little is known about community-based HIV prevention for persons with SMI as most interventions have been restricted to clinical settings. This rep…
Community Science: Creating an Alternative Place to Stand
This article comments on two emerging views of community psychology's approaches to the use of research for responding to social problems in contemporary community contexts--(a) the formation of a new field of community science, or (b) the updating of community psychology research traditions. If community science is to become established as a field related to community psychology, its proponents will need to agree upon conventions of epistemology…
Service providers' views of psychiatric mutual support groups
Despite evidence that mutual support groups can be beneficial for those with serious mental illnesses, professionals have been reluctant to utilize this resource. We surveyed over 400 providers across several disciplines and settings within the state of Connecticut's public mental health system to assess their attitudes and practices regarding the use of mutual support groups for their patients. We found that being a rehabilitation worker and pos…
Reconcilable Differences? Human Diversity, Cultural Relativity, and Sense of Community
Sense of community (SOC) is one of the most widely used and studied constructs in community psychology. As proposed by Sarason in (The Psychological sense of community: prospects for a community psychology, Jossey‐Bass, San Francisco, 1974 ), SOC represents the strength of bonding among community members. It is a valuable component of community life, and it has been linked to positive mental health outcomes, citizen participation, and community c…
Understanding the experience of place: Expanding methods to conceptualize and measure community integration of persons with serious mental illness
Examining the Psychological Sense of Community for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness Residing in Supported Housing Environments
A Social Ecological Approach to Investigating Relationships Between Housing and Adaptive Functioning for Persons with Serious Mental Illness
This paper seeks to advance mental health—housing research regarding which factors of housing and neighborhood environments are critical for adaptive functioning, health, and recovery for persons with serious mental illness (SMI). Housing and neighborhood environments are particularly important for persons with SMI because of the prevalence of poor housing conditions among this population. Most mental health—housing research has been limited by a…
Facilitating Youth Participation in a Context of Forced Migration: A Photovoice Project in Northern Uganda
This paper describes a documentary photography (Photovoice) project conducted in 2007 with young people (ages 12 to 16) living in an internal displacement camp in northern Uganda during a time of great transition following more than 20 years of civil war. Twelve students were randomly selected from three schools after several weeks of instruction in English and photography. Over the course of six weeks, students used digital cameras to document l…
Development of a measure of sense of community for individuals with serious mental illness residing in community settings
The psychological sense of community is one of the most commonly investigated constructs in community psychology. Sense of community may be particularly important for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) because they often face societal barriers to participation in community living, including stigma and discrimination. To date, no published studies have investigated the psychometric qualities of sense of community measures among individu…
Homelessness, Mental Illness and Citizenship
Assertive mental health outreach to homeless persons, which operates under the premise that mental illness must be understood and treated within the individual’s social and economic environment, points towards the goals of community membership and ‘citizenship’—a connection to the rights, responsibilities, roles, and resources that society offers through public and social institutions and informal ‘associational life’—for homeless persons. We arg…
A Little Goes a Long Way: The Impact of Distal Social Support on Community Integration and Recovery of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
Although an extensive body of literature highlights the important role of social support for individuals with psychiatric disabilities, definitions of support tend to be restricted—focusing on intimate relationships such as friend and family networks and ignoring the role of casual relationships existing naturally in the community. This mixed‐methods study of 300 consumers of mental health services in the Southeastern US aims to better understand…
What It Means To Be a Woman: ” Ambivalent Sexism in Female College Students’ Experiences and Attitudes
Previous Homelessness as a Risk Factor for Recovery from Serious Mental Illnesses
Beyond disciplinary boundaries: Speaking back to critical knowledges, liberation, and community
This article explores critical directions for forging new disciplinary traditions within community psychology, as discussed by a panel at the conclusion of the 6th International Conference on Community Psychology (ICCP 2016). The conference itself was constructed as an enactment of a decolonizing approach, looking at the entire globalized system from the African continent and centring knowledges produced by Africans and the diaspora. Several pane…
Mind Over Matter? The Role of Individual Perceptions in Understanding the Social Ecology of Housing Environments for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
There is a disagreement in place‐based research regarding whether objective indicators or individual perceptions of environments are better predictors of well‐being. This study assessed environmental influences on well‐being for 373 individuals with psychiatric disabilities living independently in 66 neighborhoods in the southeastern United States. Three questions were examined utilizing random effects models: (1) How much variance in personal an…
Community Science: Creating an Alternative Place to Stand
This article comments on two emerging views of community psychology's approaches to the use of research for responding to social problems in contemporary community contexts--(a) the formation of a new field of community science, or (b) the updating of community psychology research traditions. If community science is to become established as a field related to community psychology, its proponents will need to agree upon conventions of epistemology…
Science and Community Psychology: Enhancing the Vitality of Community Research and Action
Negotiating Risk: Knowledge and Use of HIV Prevention by Persons With Serious Mental Illness Living in Supportive Housing
As a population, persons with serious mental illness (SMI) have an elevated risk for HIV infection. However, relatively little is known about how the risk of HIV has affected their lives, how persons with SMI evaluate their HIV risk, and what preventive measures they undertake. Furthermore, relatively little is known about community-based HIV prevention for persons with SMI as most interventions have been restricted to clinical settings. This rep…
Service providers' views of psychiatric mutual support groups
Despite evidence that mutual support groups can be beneficial for those with serious mental illnesses, professionals have been reluctant to utilize this resource. We surveyed over 400 providers across several disciplines and settings within the state of Connecticut's public mental health system to assess their attitudes and practices regarding the use of mutual support groups for their patients. We found that being a rehabilitation worker and pos…
A reunion of ideas: Complementary inquiry and collaborative interventions of spirituality, religion, and psychology
The intent of this special issue is to extend community psychology's voice in the growing discourse about spirituality, religion, and psychology. While lively debate will continue about particular religious beliefs, the social significance of religious and spiritual experiences cannot be overlooked. These papers will not enter the debate over the existence of a higher power, but rather they will contribute to the development of knowledge and grea…
Cultivating Community Psychology for Future Generations: Symbiosis, Synergy, and Separation
As we near the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of a community psychology division of the American Psychological Association, there are reasons to be concerned about the sustainability of the field. This commentary proposes a need for deliberate, systematic efforts to cultivate settings that can sustain the field. A framework for outreach to build symbiotic relationships and synergistic collaborations with persons who do not identify as commu…
Before the beginning: Religious leaders' perceptions of the possibility for mutually beneficial collaboration with psychologists
In the past decade, several authors have argued that psychologists consider collaboration with religious communities as a way of reaching people in their natural settings, addressing issues of ecological validity, and enriching psychological theory and practice. However, absent from most of the literature is a rationale for why members of the religious communities may be interested in collaborating; or, how setting members might benefit from such…
Peer support among individuals with severe mental illness: A review of the evidence.
This article reviews the history and potential effectiveness of peer support among persons with severe mental illness. Following a historical overview, we describe the three primary forms of peer support that have been developed to date by and for this population, and examine the existing empirical evidence of the feasibility, effectiveness, and utilization of each of these approaches in contributing to the recovery of individuals with psychiatri…
Introduction to special issue on spirituality, religion, and community psychology
The prospect and purpose of locating community research and action in religious settings
Although the importance of working with people within their natural settings has been advocated since the 1965 conference at Swampscott, community psychologists have had relatively little discourse about religious settings when compared to the vast number of studies undertaken in other settings—schools, family environments, workplaces, and hospitals, to name a few. Only in recent years have some community psychologists begun to explore the potent…
Introduction to special issue on spirituality, religion, and community psychology
Homelessness, Mental Illness and Citizenship
Assertive mental health outreach to homeless persons, which operates under the premise that mental illness must be understood and treated within the individual’s social and economic environment, points towards the goals of community membership and ‘citizenship’—a connection to the rights, responsibilities, roles, and resources that society offers through public and social institutions and informal ‘associational life’—for homeless persons. We arg…
A reunion of ideas: Complementary inquiry and collaborative interventions of spirituality, religion, and psychology
The intent of this special issue is to extend community psychology's voice in the growing discourse about spirituality, religion, and psychology. While lively debate will continue about particular religious beliefs, the social significance of religious and spiritual experiences cannot be overlooked. These papers will not enter the debate over the existence of a higher power, but rather they will contribute to the development of knowledge and grea…
Service providers' views of psychiatric mutual support groups
Despite evidence that mutual support groups can be beneficial for those with serious mental illnesses, professionals have been reluctant to utilize this resource. We surveyed over 400 providers across several disciplines and settings within the state of Connecticut's public mental health system to assess their attitudes and practices regarding the use of mutual support groups for their patients. We found that being a rehabilitation worker and pos…
Science and Community Psychology: Enhancing the Vitality of Community Research and Action
Negotiating Risk: Knowledge and Use of HIV Prevention by Persons With Serious Mental Illness Living in Supportive Housing
As a population, persons with serious mental illness (SMI) have an elevated risk for HIV infection. However, relatively little is known about how the risk of HIV has affected their lives, how persons with SMI evaluate their HIV risk, and what preventive measures they undertake. Furthermore, relatively little is known about community-based HIV prevention for persons with SMI as most interventions have been restricted to clinical settings. This rep…
Community Science: Creating an Alternative Place to Stand
This article comments on two emerging views of community psychology's approaches to the use of research for responding to social problems in contemporary community contexts--(a) the formation of a new field of community science, or (b) the updating of community psychology research traditions. If community science is to become established as a field related to community psychology, its proponents will need to agree upon conventions of epistemology…
Housing environment and mental health outcomes: A levels of analysis perspective
Understanding the experience of place: Expanding methods to conceptualize and measure community integration of persons with serious mental illness
Facilitating Youth Participation in a Context of Forced Migration: A Photovoice Project in Northern Uganda
This paper describes a documentary photography (Photovoice) project conducted in 2007 with young people (ages 12 to 16) living in an internal displacement camp in northern Uganda during a time of great transition following more than 20 years of civil war. Twelve students were randomly selected from three schools after several weeks of instruction in English and photography. Over the course of six weeks, students used digital cameras to document l…
What It Means To Be a Woman: ” Ambivalent Sexism in Female College Students’ Experiences and Attitudes
A Social Ecological Approach to Investigating Relationships Between Housing and Adaptive Functioning for Persons with Serious Mental Illness
This paper seeks to advance mental health—housing research regarding which factors of housing and neighborhood environments are critical for adaptive functioning, health, and recovery for persons with serious mental illness (SMI). Housing and neighborhood environments are particularly important for persons with SMI because of the prevalence of poor housing conditions among this population. Most mental health—housing research has been limited by a…
Development of a measure of sense of community for individuals with serious mental illness residing in community settings
The psychological sense of community is one of the most commonly investigated constructs in community psychology. Sense of community may be particularly important for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) because they often face societal barriers to participation in community living, including stigma and discrimination. To date, no published studies have investigated the psychometric qualities of sense of community measures among individu…
Examining the Psychological Sense of Community for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness Residing in Supported Housing Environments
Reconcilable Differences? Human Diversity, Cultural Relativity, and Sense of Community
Sense of community (SOC) is one of the most widely used and studied constructs in community psychology. As proposed by Sarason in (The Psychological sense of community: prospects for a community psychology, Jossey‐Bass, San Francisco, 1974 ), SOC represents the strength of bonding among community members. It is a valuable component of community life, and it has been linked to positive mental health outcomes, citizen participation, and community c…
Community Psychology: Linking Individuals and Communities
Community PsychologyAcknowledgment: We would like to acknowledge the contributions of the authors of this chapter in the first edition of this volume: Bianca D. M. Wilson, Erin Hayes, George J. Greene…
Community psychology is concerned with the many ways that individual lives and well-being are inextricably interwoven with social systems and collective well-being. In this chapter, we explore, in historical perspective, how community psychologists engage in research and action in multiple levels of communities. We review the early development of the field in the United States and internationally, before and after the Swampscott conference in 196…
A Little Goes a Long Way: The Impact of Distal Social Support on Community Integration and Recovery of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
Although an extensive body of literature highlights the important role of social support for individuals with psychiatric disabilities, definitions of support tend to be restricted—focusing on intimate relationships such as friend and family networks and ignoring the role of casual relationships existing naturally in the community. This mixed‐methods study of 300 consumers of mental health services in the Southeastern US aims to better understand…
Mind Over Matter? The Role of Individual Perceptions in Understanding the Social Ecology of Housing Environments for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
There is a disagreement in place‐based research regarding whether objective indicators or individual perceptions of environments are better predictors of well‐being. This study assessed environmental influences on well‐being for 373 individuals with psychiatric disabilities living independently in 66 neighborhoods in the southeastern United States. Three questions were examined utilizing random effects models: (1) How much variance in personal an…
Prevention Research
Relationships among religious coping, optimism, and outcomes for persons with psychiatric disabilities
Psychology (28 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Community Health and Development (16 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Psychiatry (13 works) · Mental health (12 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (11 works) · Mental illness (10 works)