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Gary Holden MS, DSW

Professor of Social Work
gary.holden@nyu.edu | (212) 998-5940

bio

Dr. Gary Holden is a Professor at the New York University Silver School of Social Work. He is a former faculty member in the Mount Sinai School of 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 Starbright World.

Dr. Holden is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Social Work Education and a current member of the Editorial Board of Social Work in Health Care. He developed and is the current editor of Information for Practice, the international news and new scholarship aggregation site for social work professionals. Building on years of educational outcome measure development research, he is currently working on the Evaluation Self-Efficacy scale that he and his colleagues created while he was a Senior Scholar at the Council on Social Work Education. Dr. Holden has also been closely involved in the Society for Social Work Research’s Presidential Task Force on Publication and in the development of the new Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research.

Dr. Holden has published on a range of topics including behavioral health and telehealth, bibliometrics, social work education, the Social Cognitive Theory construct self-efficacy, and the Internet. He received his masters in social work in 1987 and doctorate in social welfare in 1990 (with distinction for the dissertation) from Columbia University.

selected recent web of science publications

  • Holden, G., Thyer, B.; Baer, J. C., Delva, J., Dulmus, C., Shanks, T. R. W. (2008). Suggestions to improve social work journal editorial and peer review processes: The San Antonio Response to the Miami Statement. Research on Social Work Practice, 18, 66-71.
  • Holden, G., Barker, K., & Rosenberg, G., & Onghena, P. (2008). The Evaluation Self-Efficacy Scale: A replication. Research on Social Work Practice, 18, 42-46.
  • Holden, G., Barker, K., & Rosenberg, G., & Onghena, P. (2007). Assessing progress towards accreditation related objectives: Evidence regarding the use of self-efficacy as an outcome in the advanced concentration research curriculum. Research on Social Work Practice, 17, 456-465.
  • 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.
  • Holden, G., Rosenberg, G., & Barker, K. (2005). Tracing thought through time and space: A selective review of bibliometrics in social work. Social Work in Health Care, 41(3/4),1-34.
  • Rosenberg, G., Holden, G., & Barker, K (2005). What happens to our ideas? A bibliometric analysis of articles in Social Work in Health Care in the 1990s. Social Work in Health Care, 41(3/4), 35-66.
  • 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(3/4), 67-92.
  • Holden, G., Rosenberg, G., & Barker, K. (2005). Shallow science or meta-cognitive insights: A few thoughts on bibliometrics. Social Work in Health Care, 41(3/4), 129-148.
  • Holden, G., Anastas, J., & Meenaghan, T. (2005). EPAS objectives and foundation practice self-efficacy: A replication. Journal of Social Work Education, 41(3), 559-570.
  • Schilling, R., Baer, J. C., Barth, R., Fraser, M., Herman, D., Holden, G., MacNeil, G., Maccio, E. M., Marsh, J. C., Nichols-Casebolt, A., Proctor, E., Robinson-Rogers, D., Shanks, T. R. W., Tucker, D. J. (2005). Peer review and publication standards in social work journals: The Miami Statement. Social Work Research, 29, 119-121.
  • Spitzer, W., Neuman, K., & Holden, G. (2004). The coming of age for assisted living care: New senior housing and social work practice arena. Social Work in Health Care, 38, 3, 21-45.
  • 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.
  • Holden, G., Anastas, J., & Meenaghan, T. (2003). Determining attainment of the EPAS foundation program objectives: Evidence for the use of self-efficacy as an outcome. Journal of Social Work Education, 39, 425-440.
  • Holden, G. & Rosenberg, G. (2003). The Deep Web, dark matter, metabundles, and the broadband elite: Do you need an informaticist? Social Work in Health Care, 36(4),1-18. Reprinted in J. R. Graham, M. E. Jones, & S. Hick (Eds.), (2005). Beyond the digital divide and back: Social welfare, technology, and the new economy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Holden, G., Bearison, D., Rode, D., Fishman-Kapiloff, M. , Rosenberg, G. & Rosenzweig, J. (2002). The impact of a computer network on pediatric pain and anxiety: A randomized controlled clinical trial. Social Work in Health Care, 36, 21-33.
  • Holden, G., Meenaghan, T., Anastas, J. & Metrey, G. (2002). Outcomes of social work education: The case for social work self-efficacy. Journal of Social Work Education, 38, 115-133.
  • Holden, G. (2002). Delivering knowledge for practice: A World Wide Web based example. Journal of Social Work Education, 38, 167-172.
  • Spitzer, W., Holden, G., Cuzzi, L. C., Rutter, S., Chernack, P., & Rosenberg, G. (2001). Edith Abbott was right: Designing fieldwork experiences for contemporary health care practice. Journal of Social Work Education, 37, 79-90.
  • Wade, S., Holden, G., Lynn, H., Mitchell, H., & Ewart, C. (2000). Cognitive behavioral predictors of asthma morbidity in inner-city children. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 21, 340-346.
  • Holden, G., Bearison, D., Rode, D., Rosenberg, G., & Fishman, M. (2000). The effects of a computer network on pediatric pain and anxiety. Journal of Technology in Human Services, 17(1-3), 27-48.