Gary Holden

Gary Holden is a Professor at NYU Silver. He is a former faculty member in the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Department of Community Medicine where he was a co-investigator on the National Inner City Asthma Study and the Minorities Risk Factors and Stroke Study. Dr. Holden was a member of the Health Summit Working Group that developed the IEEE-USA endorsed criteria for the assessment of the quality of health information on the Internet. Since coming to NYU he completed the third randomized controlled clinical trial of Starbright World, the award-winning computer network for hospitalized children and a meta-analysis of the set of RCCTs that examined this intervention.

Dr. Holden is the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Social Work Education. He developed and is the current editor of Information for Practice, the international news and new scholarship aggregation site for social work professionals. IP services include both a monthly archival service and a Twitter feed - @Info4Practice.

Dr. Holden has published on a range of topics including behavioral telehealth, bibliometrics, social work education, and the Social Cognitive Theory construct self-efficacy. His team’s series of direct and indirect replications (that began many years before the Reproducibility Project appeared in psychology) has served two overarching purposes. First, the series of studies has provided social work faculty throughout the world with an evolving set of educational outcome measures. Second, the studies have systematically documented change in students over time within the Silver School of Social Work. As can be seen in Figure 1, across two decades and studies involving over 1,900 students, the research team has consistently observed statistically significant increases in students’ self-efficacy across varying time intervals. His research team's most recent article stemming from this research program is:

Holden, G., Barker, K., Kuppens, S. & Rosenberg, G. (2017). Self efficacy regarding social work competencies. Research on Social Work Practice, 27, 594-606. doi: 10.1177/1049731515586466

Google Scholar citation data for Dr. Holden and his publication list are available here:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=zL1z5NoAAAAJ.

Dr. Holden teaches Social Work Research II at the Silver School.

He received his Doctorate in Social Welfare (with distinction for the dissertation), his Masters in Social Work from Columbia University, and his Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of Washington.

Holden, G., & Barker, K. (2018). Should social workers be engaged in these practices? Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work, 15, 1-13. doi: 10.1080/23761407.2017.1422075

Holden, G., Barker, K., Kuppens, S. & Rosenberg, G. (2017). Self-efficacy regarding social work competencies. Research on Social Work Practice, 27, 594-606. doi: 10.1177/1049731515586466

Holden, G., Barker, K., Kuppens, S. & Rosenberg, G. (2015). A replication of failure, not a failure to replicate. Research on Social Work Practice, 25, 313-321. doi: 10.1177/1049731514530000

Holden, G., Barker, K., Rosenberg, G. Kuppens, S. & Ferrell, L. W. (2011). The signature pedagogy of social work? An investigation of the evidence. Research on Social Work Practice, 21, 363-72.  doi: 10.1177/1049731510392061

Holden, G., Barker, K., Covert-Vail, L., Rosenberg, G., & Cohen S. A. (2009). Social Work Abstracts fails again. Research on Social Work Practice, 19, 715-21. doi: 10.1177/1049731508329392

Holden, G., Rosenberg, G., Barker, K., & Onghena, P. (2006). An assessment of the predictive validity of impact factor scores: Implications for academic employment decisions in social work. Research on Social Work Practice, 16, 613-624. doi: 10.1177/1049731506292570

Holden, G., Rosenberg, G., & Barker, K (2005). Bibliometrics: A potential decision making aid in hiring, reappointment, tenure and promotion decisions. Social Work in Health Care, 41, ¾, 67-92. doi: 10.1300/J010v41n03_03

Holden, G., Bearison, D., Rode, D., Fishman-Kapiloff, M., Rosenberg, G. & Onghena, P. (2003). Pediatric pain and anxiety: A meta-analysis of outcomes for a behavioral telehealth intervention. Research on Social Work Practice, 13, 693-704. doi: 10.1177/1049731503254107

Holden, G. (1991). The relationship of self-efficacy appraisals to subsequent health related outcomes: A meta-analysis. Social Work in Health Care, 16, 53-93. doi: 10.1300/J010v16n01_05

MSW: Social Work Research I & II

Information for Practice

Developed and edited by Dr. Holden, Information for Practice is a unique, international, online resource for social care/social welfare/social work professionals that focuses on aggregating news and new scholarship for professional practice. In addition to editing the constantly updated, free service, hosted at ifp.nyu.edu, Dr. Holden manages the @Info4Practice Twitter feed.

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