Asli Cennet Yalim

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at University of Central Florida

Health promotion (HP) curricula are essential for health professions education but currently lack strong long-term evidence for effectiveness. This project aimed to evaluate the multilevel long-term impact of an HP curriculum on healthcare students. An HP curriculum incorporating ten evidence-based interventions was implemented for healthcare stude...

Dynamic tools and advanced techniques, including Geographic Information System (GIS), have been developed to help close the health gap, a social work grand challenge. Unfortunately, these tools are underutilized in the field of social work. To address this gap, a systematic review of 53 studies was conducted, revealing the use of GIS methodologies...

A recent accreditation requirement for medical education calls for innovative approaches to creating a health promotion curriculum (HPC) and interprofessional education. We developed an interprofessional HPC focused on 10 evidence-based interventions (acceptance and commitment, active rest, emotional freedom, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, nu...

The growing crisis of forced displacement calls for attention to refugee well‐being globally. This study examined distress among 123 young‐adult Syrian women (ages 18–30 years) residing in five cities across Türkiye (Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Adana, and Gaziantep). Utilizing a social‐ecological framework, the study examines risk and protective facto...

Purpose Healthcare professionals experience stressors that begin during training and persist into their careers that adversely impact their well-being. This study aims to identify students’ and professionals’ stress levels, satisfaction with wellness domains, barriers to wellness, and stress management practices. Design This study was a cross-sect...

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Social workers support clients’ psychosocial and resource needs across care settings. Social workers are typically not, however, trained to engage in emergency response practices such as the ones that may be necessary to support needs brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. This article reports findings from a cross-sectional survey of social work stu...

Despite the adversity Syrian refugees face, the majority of them present positive functioning and do not show clear signs of psychiatric diagnoses. To understand what constitutes this resilience and the concept of mental health among Syrian refugees, a total of four semi-structured groups interviews (N = 25) was conducted in Istanbul (Turkey) and B...

To achieve equity for refugee patients in mental health care settings, patient-centered, trauma-informed, and cultural humility practices have gained recognition; however, the use of these practices is not well defined. The implementation process of these practices may require providers’ increased self-efficacy, motivation, and cultural intelligenc...

Policies and programs in resettlement countries, such as the United States, influence refugees’ wellbeing depending on the support they receive from governments. This qualitative case study analyzes the wellbeing of refugees resettled in New York City by examining the impact of organizational, city, state, and federal welfare policies on refugees f...

People around the world are moving from their home countries to other destinations to find safety for various reasons such as war, poverty, and violence. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 70.8 million people had been forced to move from their home countries by the end of 2018 and half of the world's displaced p...

Labor migration has surged in the former Soviet countries such as Kyrgyzstan because of multiple crises that the country faced since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Migration has produced broad impacts on most aspects of life in Kyrgyzstan and is transforming family life in myriad ways. Based on in-depth interviews with members of migrating famil...

Good mental health is essential to successful integration for refugee populations that resettle in the U.S. We explored perceptions of mental illnesses and barriers to mental health service use as well as solutions to current mental health problems from the perspective of refugees. The interviews with a convenience sampling of 11 community leaders...

The U.S. refugee policy relies heavily on the expectation that refugees will achieve self-sufficiency in the short term by obtaining employment. Since physical health is an important factor for employment, the U.S. government requires all refugees to be physically examined immediately after arrival. Mental health is also an important factor, especi...

Refugees may struggle to overcome not only psychological impacts of pre-resettlement events but also additional living challenges in post-resettlement contexts. This study aims to understand how context-specific factors influence the psychosocial wellbeing of Syrian refugees through comparing difficulties and resources in two locations. A total of...

This study is based in a mid-size city in New York State, where the immigrant and refugee population is steadily growing as a result of the U.S. federal resettlement program and secondary migration. These transformations pose challenges to service providers. Women of immigrant and refugee status who experience domestic violence constitute a particu...

The timely use of health-care services is essential to achieve the best health outcomes. We explore barriers to health-care access among refugees from Burma through interviews with key community informants who serve their community as interpreters, health-care professionals, paraprofessionals, and/or representatives. The interviews with a convenien...

This three-paper dissertation aims to explore how contextual factors (e.g., social and cultural norms, policies, and economic conditions) in two locations, Buffalo, NY and Istanbul, Turkey, influence the mental health, resilience, and gender roles of Syrian refugees. The study is a convergent parallel mixed-methods design in which data analysis con...

Vietnamese Americans are a heterogeneous group with varied migration histories. The life course perspective (LCP) suggests that different migration histories (immigrant vs. refugee) may affect their psychological health. Using Vietnamese refugee (n = 291) and immigrant (n = 211) subsamples from the National Latino and Asian American Study, selected...

Since 2011, the Syrian refugee crisis has resulted in a massive displacement of Syrians, inside and outside of Syria. The enormous psychosocial needs of displaced Syrians have been documented by various reports and studies. With expected arrivals of Syrian refugees resettling in the United States in the near future, the intensity of the challenges...

Abstract: This paper aims to explore relationship between childhood maltreatment histories and denial of male adolescent offenders who are imprisoned for violent criminal behaviors. The study group consists of 235 male adolescents between the ages of 15 and 18 in 􀀅stanbul Bayrampa􀀆a H Type Prison affiliated to the Ministry of Justice. According to...