Haluk Soydan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5750765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Haluk Soydan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Haluk |
| FAMILY NAME | Soydan |
| SIGNATURE | SOYDAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Intervention Research in Social Work
This article examines the role and importance of intervention research in social work, namely to induce change to intentionally isolate or eradicate risk factors, activate and mobilise protective factors, reduce or eradicate harm, or introduce betterment beyond harm eradication. Intervention research is the main tool to support social work in understanding the outcomes of its interventions. This article outlines core components of the interventio…
Understanding Social Work in the History of Ideas
Objectives: The purpose of this article is to present a theoretical frame of reference for the study and assessment of social work from the perspective of a history of ideas. Method: The study employed an analysis of primary and secondary historical sources. Results: Social work as a practice and research field is embedded in the genesis of modern social science as developed by the Scottish School of thinking, and organized practice for the bette…
Outcome Studies of Social, Behavioral, and Educational Interventions: Emerging Issues and Challenges
This collection of articles elaborates on various aspects of outcome studies. Outcome studies feed and nurture the field of social work and other human services professions with evidence on what works. Outcome studies are designed to measure and understand the effectiveness of social, behavioral, and educational interventions. The ultimate purpose of social work action is change; that is, intended betterment of living conditions of a client, a fa…
New Horizons of Translational Research and Research Translation in Social Work
There has been an increasing focus on the process of translating research into practice in all fields of health and social services. This focus has shed considerable light on the potential for social workers to play a pivotal role in conducting translational research and facilitating research translation. This article examines new opportunities, directions, and methods for engaging in translational research and research translation; provides exam…
Evidence and policy: The case of social care services in Sweden
This paper offers an account of contemporary efforts to introduce and refine the use of research evidence in policy and practice in Sweden with regard to the social care services system. The paper introduces the national context, the social care services system, and the knowledge generation and research funding mechanisms for the social work profession in Sweden. It then describes national policies and measures to advance evidence utilisation in …
Intervention Research in Social Work
This article examines the role and importance of intervention research in social work, namely to induce change to intentionally isolate or eradicate risk factors, activate and mobilise protective factors, reduce or eradicate harm, or introduce betterment beyond harm eradication. Intervention research is the main tool to support social work in understanding the outcomes of its interventions. This article outlines core components of the interventio…
Evidence-Based Clearinghouses in Social Work
Objectives: The purpose of this article is to describe several evidence-based clearinghouses focused on social work and related intervention outcomes, placing them in the context of how such clearinghouses can contribute to research dissemination to foster effective, evidence-based practice. Method: The study employed an analysis of data provided in clearinghouse Web sites and internal documentation. Results: The clearinghouses are Web-based port…
From Opinion-Based to Evidence-Based Social Work: The Swedish Case
This article presents an account of Sweden’s Institute for Evidence-Based Social Work Practice (IMS), located in Stockholm, Sweden. The article places IMS in the context of making Swedish social care services less opinion-based and more evidence-based. The institute is an example of how policy-driven processes promote the use of evidence-based practices in this European nation. The article includes presentations of history, organization, and prod…
The Hamovitch Research Center: An Experiment in Collective Responsibility for Advancing Science in the Human Services
Journal Article The Hamovitch Research Center: An Experiment in Collective Responsibility for Advancing Science in the Human Services Get access Marilyn Flynn, PhD, Marilyn Flynn, PhD dean and professor School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John S. Brekke, PhD, John S. Brekke, PhD Frances Larson Professor of Social Work Research School of Soci…
Applying Randomized Controlled Trials and Systematic Reviews in Social Work Research
This article elaborates on the centrality of interventions for social work practice and the importance of understanding the effects of interventions for a more efficient, harmless, transparent, and ethical social work practice. Low-bias research designs and meta-analyses are important means of generating the best possible evidence on what works in social work practice. An evidence-based practice model is promising in terms of translating and impl…
Improving the Teaching of Evidence-Based Practice: Challenges and Priorities
This article explores some of the main challenges of improving the teaching of evidence-based practice in schools of social work. The priority challenges are the needs for a general professional cultural shift, for adequate curricula, to overcome the controversy of scientific methodology, to better understand the state of the art of the professional knowledge base, to create a professional consensus on what is a reasonable evidence level on which…
Are Mainstream Programs for Juvenile Delinquency Less Effective With Minority Youth Than Majority Youth? A Meta-Analysis of Outcomes Research
Objective: A meta-analysis was undertaken to synthesize research results about the effectiveness of mainstream service programs for minority juvenile delinquents relative to White delinquents. The analysis addresses the question of whether mainstream interventions that are not culturally tailored for minority youth have positive outcomes on their subsequent antisocial behavior, academic performance, peer relations, behavior problems, and other ou…
The Campbell Collaboration
This article describes the development, organization, and operation of the Campbell Collaboration, an international network of academics and practitioners who prepare, maintain, and make accessible authoritative systematic reviews of the effectiveness of interventions in the fields of social welfare, education, and criminal justice. The Campbell Collaboration is modeled after the successful Cochrane Collaboration, established in 1993 to produce r…
Meeting the Challenges of Evidence-Based Policy: The Campbell Collaboration
Evidence-based policy has much to recommend it, but it also faces significant challenges. These challenges reside not only in the dilemmas faced by policy makers but also in the quality of the evaluation evidence. Some of these problems are most effectively addressed by rigorous syntheses of the literature known as systematic reviews. Other problems remain, including the range of quality in systematic reviews and their general failure to be updat…
Evaluation as a Tool in the Development of Social Work Discourse: National Diversity or Shared Preoccupations? Reflections from a Conference
This article reports reflections from an international conference on evaluation as a tool in the development of social work discourse. The conference was organized with the purpose of presenting the state of the art to the Swedish social work research community. In this article, a number of major issues that were discussed at the conference are reported, including evaluation paradigms and preoccupations, the relationship between the social resear…
Social Structure and Subjective Culture: A Macrosociological Inquiry into an Atlas of Affective Meaning
Meeting the Challenges of Evidence-Based Policy: The Campbell Collaboration
Evidence-based policy has much to recommend it, but it also faces significant challenges. These challenges reside not only in the dilemmas faced by policy makers but also in the quality of the evaluation evidence. Some of these problems are most effectively addressed by rigorous syntheses of the literature known as systematic reviews. Other problems remain, including the range of quality in systematic reviews and their general failure to be updat…
Are Mainstream Programs for Juvenile Delinquency Less Effective With Minority Youth Than Majority Youth? A Meta-Analysis of Outcomes Research
Objective: A meta-analysis was undertaken to synthesize research results about the effectiveness of mainstream service programs for minority juvenile delinquents relative to White delinquents. The analysis addresses the question of whether mainstream interventions that are not culturally tailored for minority youth have positive outcomes on their subsequent antisocial behavior, academic performance, peer relations, behavior problems, and other ou…
New Horizons of Translational Research and Research Translation in Social Work
There has been an increasing focus on the process of translating research into practice in all fields of health and social services. This focus has shed considerable light on the potential for social workers to play a pivotal role in conducting translational research and facilitating research translation. This article examines new opportunities, directions, and methods for engaging in translational research and research translation; provides exam…
Intervention Research in Social Work
This article examines the role and importance of intervention research in social work, namely to induce change to intentionally isolate or eradicate risk factors, activate and mobilise protective factors, reduce or eradicate harm, or introduce betterment beyond harm eradication. Intervention research is the main tool to support social work in understanding the outcomes of its interventions. This article outlines core components of the interventio…
From Opinion-Based to Evidence-Based Social Work: The Swedish Case
This article presents an account of Sweden’s Institute for Evidence-Based Social Work Practice (IMS), located in Stockholm, Sweden. The article places IMS in the context of making Swedish social care services less opinion-based and more evidence-based. The institute is an example of how policy-driven processes promote the use of evidence-based practices in this European nation. The article includes presentations of history, organization, and prod…
Improving the Teaching of Evidence-Based Practice: Challenges and Priorities
This article explores some of the main challenges of improving the teaching of evidence-based practice in schools of social work. The priority challenges are the needs for a general professional cultural shift, for adequate curricula, to overcome the controversy of scientific methodology, to better understand the state of the art of the professional knowledge base, to create a professional consensus on what is a reasonable evidence level on which…
Applying Randomized Controlled Trials and Systematic Reviews in Social Work Research
This article elaborates on the centrality of interventions for social work practice and the importance of understanding the effects of interventions for a more efficient, harmless, transparent, and ethical social work practice. Low-bias research designs and meta-analyses are important means of generating the best possible evidence on what works in social work practice. An evidence-based practice model is promising in terms of translating and impl…
The Campbell Collaboration
This article describes the development, organization, and operation of the Campbell Collaboration, an international network of academics and practitioners who prepare, maintain, and make accessible authoritative systematic reviews of the effectiveness of interventions in the fields of social welfare, education, and criminal justice. The Campbell Collaboration is modeled after the successful Cochrane Collaboration, established in 1993 to produce r…
Understanding Social Work in the History of Ideas
Objectives: The purpose of this article is to present a theoretical frame of reference for the study and assessment of social work from the perspective of a history of ideas. Method: The study employed an analysis of primary and secondary historical sources. Results: Social work as a practice and research field is embedded in the genesis of modern social science as developed by the Scottish School of thinking, and organized practice for the bette…
Evidence and policy: The case of social care services in Sweden
This paper offers an account of contemporary efforts to introduce and refine the use of research evidence in policy and practice in Sweden with regard to the social care services system. The paper introduces the national context, the social care services system, and the knowledge generation and research funding mechanisms for the social work profession in Sweden. It then describes national policies and measures to advance evidence utilisation in …
Evidence-Based Clearinghouses in Social Work
Objectives: The purpose of this article is to describe several evidence-based clearinghouses focused on social work and related intervention outcomes, placing them in the context of how such clearinghouses can contribute to research dissemination to foster effective, evidence-based practice. Method: The study employed an analysis of data provided in clearinghouse Web sites and internal documentation. Results: The clearinghouses are Web-based port…
Evaluation as a Tool in the Development of Social Work Discourse: National Diversity or Shared Preoccupations? Reflections from a Conference
This article reports reflections from an international conference on evaluation as a tool in the development of social work discourse. The conference was organized with the purpose of presenting the state of the art to the Swedish social work research community. In this article, a number of major issues that were discussed at the conference are reported, including evaluation paradigms and preoccupations, the relationship between the social resear…
Intervention Research in Social Work
This article examines the role and importance of intervention research in social work, namely to induce change to intentionally isolate or eradicate risk factors, activate and mobilise protective factors, reduce or eradicate harm, or introduce betterment beyond harm eradication. Intervention research is the main tool to support social work in understanding the outcomes of its interventions. This article outlines core components of the interventio…
Social Structure and Subjective Culture: A Macrosociological Inquiry into an Atlas of Affective Meaning
Evaluation as a Tool in the Development of Social Work Discourse: National Diversity or Shared Preoccupations? Reflections from a Conference
This article reports reflections from an international conference on evaluation as a tool in the development of social work discourse. The conference was organized with the purpose of presenting the state of the art to the Swedish social work research community. In this article, a number of major issues that were discussed at the conference are reported, including evaluation paradigms and preoccupations, the relationship between the social resear…
Meeting the Challenges of Evidence-Based Policy: The Campbell Collaboration
Evidence-based policy has much to recommend it, but it also faces significant challenges. These challenges reside not only in the dilemmas faced by policy makers but also in the quality of the evaluation evidence. Some of these problems are most effectively addressed by rigorous syntheses of the literature known as systematic reviews. Other problems remain, including the range of quality in systematic reviews and their general failure to be updat…
The Campbell Collaboration
This article describes the development, organization, and operation of the Campbell Collaboration, an international network of academics and practitioners who prepare, maintain, and make accessible authoritative systematic reviews of the effectiveness of interventions in the fields of social welfare, education, and criminal justice. The Campbell Collaboration is modeled after the successful Cochrane Collaboration, established in 1993 to produce r…
Are Mainstream Programs for Juvenile Delinquency Less Effective With Minority Youth Than Majority Youth? A Meta-Analysis of Outcomes Research
Objective: A meta-analysis was undertaken to synthesize research results about the effectiveness of mainstream service programs for minority juvenile delinquents relative to White delinquents. The analysis addresses the question of whether mainstream interventions that are not culturally tailored for minority youth have positive outcomes on their subsequent antisocial behavior, academic performance, peer relations, behavior problems, and other ou…
Applying Randomized Controlled Trials and Systematic Reviews in Social Work Research
This article elaborates on the centrality of interventions for social work practice and the importance of understanding the effects of interventions for a more efficient, harmless, transparent, and ethical social work practice. Low-bias research designs and meta-analyses are important means of generating the best possible evidence on what works in social work practice. An evidence-based practice model is promising in terms of translating and impl…
Improving the Teaching of Evidence-Based Practice: Challenges and Priorities
This article explores some of the main challenges of improving the teaching of evidence-based practice in schools of social work. The priority challenges are the needs for a general professional cultural shift, for adequate curricula, to overcome the controversy of scientific methodology, to better understand the state of the art of the professional knowledge base, to create a professional consensus on what is a reasonable evidence level on which…
The Hamovitch Research Center: An Experiment in Collective Responsibility for Advancing Science in the Human Services
Journal Article The Hamovitch Research Center: An Experiment in Collective Responsibility for Advancing Science in the Human Services Get access Marilyn Flynn, PhD, Marilyn Flynn, PhD dean and professor School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John S. Brekke, PhD, John S. Brekke, PhD Frances Larson Professor of Social Work Research School of Soci…
From Opinion-Based to Evidence-Based Social Work: The Swedish Case
This article presents an account of Sweden’s Institute for Evidence-Based Social Work Practice (IMS), located in Stockholm, Sweden. The article places IMS in the context of making Swedish social care services less opinion-based and more evidence-based. The institute is an example of how policy-driven processes promote the use of evidence-based practices in this European nation. The article includes presentations of history, organization, and prod…
Evidence and policy: The case of social care services in Sweden
This paper offers an account of contemporary efforts to introduce and refine the use of research evidence in policy and practice in Sweden with regard to the social care services system. The paper introduces the national context, the social care services system, and the knowledge generation and research funding mechanisms for the social work profession in Sweden. It then describes national policies and measures to advance evidence utilisation in …
Intervention Research in Social Work
This article examines the role and importance of intervention research in social work, namely to induce change to intentionally isolate or eradicate risk factors, activate and mobilise protective factors, reduce or eradicate harm, or introduce betterment beyond harm eradication. Intervention research is the main tool to support social work in understanding the outcomes of its interventions. This article outlines core components of the interventio…
Evidence-Based Clearinghouses in Social Work
Objectives: The purpose of this article is to describe several evidence-based clearinghouses focused on social work and related intervention outcomes, placing them in the context of how such clearinghouses can contribute to research dissemination to foster effective, evidence-based practice. Method: The study employed an analysis of data provided in clearinghouse Web sites and internal documentation. Results: The clearinghouses are Web-based port…
Outcome Studies of Social, Behavioral, and Educational Interventions: Emerging Issues and Challenges
This collection of articles elaborates on various aspects of outcome studies. Outcome studies feed and nurture the field of social work and other human services professions with evidence on what works. Outcome studies are designed to measure and understand the effectiveness of social, behavioral, and educational interventions. The ultimate purpose of social work action is change; that is, intended betterment of living conditions of a client, a fa…
New Horizons of Translational Research and Research Translation in Social Work
There has been an increasing focus on the process of translating research into practice in all fields of health and social services. This focus has shed considerable light on the potential for social workers to play a pivotal role in conducting translational research and facilitating research translation. This article examines new opportunities, directions, and methods for engaging in translational research and research translation; provides exam…
Understanding Social Work in the History of Ideas
Objectives: The purpose of this article is to present a theoretical frame of reference for the study and assessment of social work from the perspective of a history of ideas. Method: The study employed an analysis of primary and secondary historical sources. Results: Social work as a practice and research field is embedded in the genesis of modern social science as developed by the Scottish School of thinking, and organized practice for the bette…
Intervention Research in Social Work
This article examines the role and importance of intervention research in social work, namely to induce change to intentionally isolate or eradicate risk factors, activate and mobilise protective factors, reduce or eradicate harm, or introduce betterment beyond harm eradication. Intervention research is the main tool to support social work in understanding the outcomes of its interventions. This article outlines core components of the interventio…
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