Charles D Kaplan
Biographic Data
| ID | 104279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles D Kaplan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles D |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaplan |
| SIGNATURE | KAPLAN C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 185 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Hyperscanning and the Future of Neurosociology
Because all aspects of social life have a mental component, sociology’s focus is not society alone but mind and society. Insofar as mind is an emergent level of brainwork, the description and measurement of mindwork amidst social interaction can be accomplished by neurometric measurement methodology. The authors’ topic, hyperscanning, involves the simultaneous recording of either hemodynamic or neuroelectric measurement of brain activity in two (…
Crack cocaine use among aging Mexican American men with heroin use histories: Motivations and polydrug use patterns
Background Knowledge about the motivations for crack cocaine use and the long-term effects among people who inject heroin is limited. This study aims to understand motivations associated with this co-use drug pattern among aging men entrenched in established intergenerational heroin subcultures. Methods: A sample of 60 men with diverse injecting heroin use histories was recruited from low-income Mexican American urban communities for semi-structu…
Deconstructing US Marijuana Prohibition Policies in the Early Twentieth Century
In the early 1900s, cannabis was used widely as a medicinal drug. However, through the fi rst half of the twentieth century, marijuana became negatively associated with Mexican-origin populations in the United States. Anglo American views of race and class became central to the creation of legislation prohibiting marijuana. This article provides a sociohistorical analysis of the 1910-1930s period, when the cannabis prohibition movement was at its…
Stages of Change Model has Limited Value in Explaining the Change in Use of Cannabis among Adolescent Participants in an Efficacious Motivational Interviewing Intervention
Previously, a Dutch randomized controlled trial evaluating an intervention aimed at changing adolescents' cannabis use, called Moti-4, has shown its efficacy. A secondary analysis of the Moti-4 data investigated the process of change specified by the Stage of Change (SOC) model in cannabis use during the trial. Seventy-one Moti-4 participants and 60 controls were recruited for the study with a pre-test, post-test (T1), and six-month follow-up (T2…
Drug Initiation of Female Detainees in a Compulsory Drug Treatment Institution in China
This study explored drug initiation among 46 Chinese women in a compulsory drug treatment institution. The study adopted a mixed method with a strong emphasis on qualitative techniques to capture the perspectives of women in long-term treatment regarding their drug initiation experiences. A complementary analysis of quantitative data was used to help interpret, refine, deepen, and extend qualitative findings. Participants were divided into two gr…
Community Building in a Virtual Teaching Environment
In 2010, the University of Southern California School of Social Work launched its Virtual Academic Center (VAC) to deliver online MSW programming to students located around the country. USC's platform is a significant innovation in offering online education and has transformed the traditional educational model for both students and faculty. This research explores the experiences of faculty teaching via the VAC. Twenty-five in-depth, semi-structur…
Emerging patterns of crack use in Mexico City
The application of the rapid assessment and response methodology for cannabis prevention research among youth in the Netherlands
Effectiveness of lifestyle interventions to reduce binge eating symptoms in African American and Hispanic women
An Adapted Brief Strategic Family Therapy for Gang-Affiliated Mexican American Adolescents
Objective: This study assessed the effectiveness of an adapted Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) intervention for gang-affiliated Mexican American adolescents and their parents. Methods: A total of 200 adolescents and their family caregivers were randomized to either a treatment or a control condition. Outcomes included adolescent substance use, conflict resolution, gang identification, parent substance use knowledge, gang awareness, family c…
Health Consequences of Long-Term Injection Heroin Use Among Aging Mexican American Men
This population has a complex profile of health consequences linked to a heroin-using lifestyle. The study concludes that routine screening of infectious diseases and medical and behavioral conditions among aging substance using populations may contribute to reducing Hispanic health disparities
The Association Between Disaster-Related Experiences and Mental Health Outcomes Among Drug Using African American Hurricane Katrina Evacuees
Patterns of substance use among Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Houston, Texas
This paper focuses on changing patterns of substance use among low income, African American drug users evacuated from New Orleans, Louisiana, during Hurricane Katrina of August 2005. It examines the relationship between increases and decreases in alcohol and tobacco (AT) use and illicit drug (ID) use after Katrina and pre-disaster and within-disaster factors. Data from structured interviews with 200 Katrina evacuees currently living in Houston we…
Fumando La Piedra: Emerging Patterns of Crack Use Among Latino Immigrant Day Laborers in New Orleans
The ibogaine medical subculture
The Influence of Family and Peer Risk Networks on Drug Use Practices and Other Risks among Mexican American Noninjecting Heroin Users
Noninjecting heroin use (NIU) is spreading among social networks of young Mexican American polydrug users. This article examines the influence of family and peer networks on NIU behavior and other drug practices and risks. This study delineates the extent to which a culturally relevant modification of the "network facilitation" theoretical approach can increase both a theoretical and practical understanding of drug use and related risk behaviors.…
The wider social environment and changes in self-reported quality of life in the transition from late childhood to early adolescence: A cohort study
Background Neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and social capital have been associated with adolescent well-being, but the majority of studies were cross-sectional, and the time window over which the neighbourhood may impact on development is unknown. Therefore, the contribution of the neighbourhood environment to adolescents' quality of life and the course of these effects during the period of transition from childhood to early adolescence …
On Cannabis, Chloral Hydrate, and Career Cycles of Psychotrophic Drugs in Medicine
This article compares the careers of two psychotropic drugs in Western psychiatry, with a focus on the nineteenth century: Cannabis indica and chloral hydrate. They were used by doctors for similar indications, such as mania, delirium tremens, and what we would now call drug dependence. The two show similar career paths consisting of three phases: initial enthusiasm and therapeutic optimism; subsequent negative appraisal; and finally, limited use…
The Drugs-Violence Nexus Among Mexican-American Gang Members
This study examines hypotheses and builds models to help clarify the causal connections between drugs and violence outcomes among Mexican-American male gang members. The study uses cross-sectional data of 160 male gang members sampled from 26 gangs in a Southwestern city. A life-history /intensive interview using closed and open-ended questions and a violence risk psychometric test (PFAV) also employed 10 scenario questions to elicit self-produce…
Killing time: Drug and alcohol problems among asylum seekers in the Netherlands
Social capital and young adolescents' perceived health in different sociocultural settings
Residential instability in socioeconomically deprived neighbourhoods, good or bad
Characteristics and Personal Social Networks of the on-the-Street, of-the-Street, Shelter and School Children in Eldoret, Kenya
Most of the street-based children are not educated beyond primary school and their living conditions are based on begging and doing odd jobs in the market and streets. Forty-six percent of the on-the-street children live with one parent, and 97 percent of the of-the-street children have lost contact with their parents. The on-the-street children have a higher percentage of family sector networks than the of-the-street children and the shelter or …
Children's health-related quality of life, neighbourhood socio-economic deprivation and social capital. A contextual analysis
Where have all the Fieldnotes Gone? The Changing Nature and Politics of Drugs Ethnography in the Netherlands
A critical review of Dutch drugs ethnography over the past two decades addresses the importance of fieldnotes and the influence of the wider policy context on the research process. Three generations of Dutch drugs ethnographers are distinguished. In the work of the first generation, fieldnotes played a primary role in the research process. This value was tied to the policy need to have first-hand knowledge of drug users themselves in order to for…
Children's health-related quality of life, neighbourhood socio-economic deprivation and social capital. A contextual analysis
Social capital and young adolescents' perceived health in different sociocultural settings
Residential instability in socioeconomically deprived neighbourhoods, good or bad
Patterns of substance use among Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Houston, Texas
This paper focuses on changing patterns of substance use among low income, African American drug users evacuated from New Orleans, Louisiana, during Hurricane Katrina of August 2005. It examines the relationship between increases and decreases in alcohol and tobacco (AT) use and illicit drug (ID) use after Katrina and pre-disaster and within-disaster factors. Data from structured interviews with 200 Katrina evacuees currently living in Houston we…
The Influence of Family and Peer Risk Networks on Drug Use Practices and Other Risks among Mexican American Noninjecting Heroin Users
Noninjecting heroin use (NIU) is spreading among social networks of young Mexican American polydrug users. This article examines the influence of family and peer networks on NIU behavior and other drug practices and risks. This study delineates the extent to which a culturally relevant modification of the "network facilitation" theoretical approach can increase both a theoretical and practical understanding of drug use and related risk behaviors.…
Characteristics and Personal Social Networks of the on-the-Street, of-the-Street, Shelter and School Children in Eldoret, Kenya
Most of the street-based children are not educated beyond primary school and their living conditions are based on begging and doing odd jobs in the market and streets. Forty-six percent of the on-the-street children live with one parent, and 97 percent of the of-the-street children have lost contact with their parents. The on-the-street children have a higher percentage of family sector networks than the of-the-street children and the shelter or …
An Adapted Brief Strategic Family Therapy for Gang-Affiliated Mexican American Adolescents
Objective: This study assessed the effectiveness of an adapted Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) intervention for gang-affiliated Mexican American adolescents and their parents. Methods: A total of 200 adolescents and their family caregivers were randomized to either a treatment or a control condition. Outcomes included adolescent substance use, conflict resolution, gang identification, parent substance use knowledge, gang awareness, family c…
The Process of Paradoxical Autonomy and Survival in the Heroin Careers of Mexican American Women
This study focuses on the process of paradoxical autonomy and survival in the heroin careers of Mexican American women. We explore how gender roles among Mexican American female heroin users influence the emergence of a paradoxical autonomy. Five key subprocesses of this autonomy were identified from 14 life history narratives: sustaining employment, working the welfare system, illegal activities, emotional aloofness, and loss of family and child…
The Videotaped Addiction Challenge Tool: A new instrument for qualitative substance abuse assessment, treatment planning and research in therapeutic communities
This article describes the different phases of the development and implementation of the Videotaped Addiction Challenge Tool (VACT, initially termed the Video Addiction Challenge Test). This instrument employs a video depicting the `average life‐story' of a resident of a Therapeutic Community for substance abusers. The video film is used as a clinical method for assessment and individual treatment planning, and as a research instrument that gives…
Talk-in-the-work: Aspects of social organization of work in a computer center
Hyperscanning and the Future of Neurosociology
Because all aspects of social life have a mental component, sociology’s focus is not society alone but mind and society. Insofar as mind is an emergent level of brainwork, the description and measurement of mindwork amidst social interaction can be accomplished by neurometric measurement methodology. The authors’ topic, hyperscanning, involves the simultaneous recording of either hemodynamic or neuroelectric measurement of brain activity in two (…
Health Consequences of Long-Term Injection Heroin Use Among Aging Mexican American Men
This population has a complex profile of health consequences linked to a heroin-using lifestyle. The study concludes that routine screening of infectious diseases and medical and behavioral conditions among aging substance using populations may contribute to reducing Hispanic health disparities
Keeping off, stepping on and stepping off: The steppingstone theory reevaluated in the context of the Dutch cannabis experience
AUTHORS' NOTE: The authors are indebted to a large number of people in both the Netherlands and the United States who took the time to read and comment on drafts of this paper. Simon Stack provided continual editorial input. Dr. Adriaan C. M. Jansen of the University of Amsterdam, Bert Bieleman of Intraval, Groningen-Rotterdam, and Hans Dupont of the International Institute for Psycho-Social and Socio-Ecological Research in Maastricht provided in…
The Finishing Moment: Temporal and Spatial Features of Sexual Interactions between Streetwalkers and Car Clients
Field research on prostitution has ignored the actual interactions between prostitutes and their clients. This gap is, in part, the result of the over-reliance of research on data of a confessional nature. This paper reports on the results of a field research study of street prostitution in a large Dutch city. Experimentation with the
The Association Between Disaster-Related Experiences and Mental Health Outcomes Among Drug Using African American Hurricane Katrina Evacuees
Improving social psychiatric treatment in residential programmes for emerging dependence groups in Europe: Cross‐border networking, methodological innovations and substantive discoveries
A mini‐symposium series of papers presenting the results of the European Commission‐supported Biomed II project is introduced. The project accomplished a cross‐border scientific networking engaging 31 European residential treatment programmes. The results showed that scientific development is best served by a flexible bureaucratic approach. ‘Old’ science and the ‘new’ science ways of working were balanced. ‘History’ and ‘social networks’ are the …
Social epidemiologic comparisons in a European cohort of substance‐dependent therapeutic community clients: A case‐oriented analysis
A case‐oriented analytical approach compared the index national case of France with the typical European outcome, other European cases and American results on social epidemiological indicators. Modal distributions were found to be most similar between the French sample and the total European sample on most social network items in a European therapeutic community cohort ( n =723). The characteristics of the American and our sample were also found …
Benaeth role theory: Reformulating a theory with neitsche's philosophy
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Two Depression Plays and Broadway's Popular Idealism
Clifford Odets: The Thirties and after
Dialectical Foundations of Scientific Inquiry
The discovery in neurology that the two sides of the brain think in distinct ways that are both opposed to each other and complementary might have consequences in a number of academic disciplines, and in philosophy and political consciousness as well. It is the purpose of this paper to apply concepts from the brain theory to an analysis of the rational foundations of scientific inquiry. To pursue this argument, it is nnecessary to take a position…
Science and Its Mirror Image
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The psychoanalytic theory of addiction: A reevaluation by use of a statistical model
Benaeth role theory: Reformulating a theory with neitsche's philosophy
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Talk-in-the-work: Aspects of social organization of work in a computer center
Multivariate Analyseverfahren
Craving for Ecstasy: The Consciousness and Chemistry of Escape
Drug Sharing and HIV Transmission Risks: The Practice of Frontloading in the Dutch Injecting Drug User Population
Injecting drug users may now be the largest group at risk for contracting HIV, mainly through the sharing of drug injection equipment (including lending, borrowing, and renting). This article presents the results of an ongoing ethnographic study into the drug-taking rituals of heroin addicts. A possible additional route of HIV contamination is presented, namely the ritual sharing of drugs through a practice termed "frontloading," which is embedde…
Reaching the Unreached: Targeting Hidden IDU Populations with Clean Needles via Known User Groups
Needle exchange is a practical and important part of the Dutch prevention strategy to check the spread of HIV among injecting drug users (IDUs). However, needle-exchange programs are often tied to drug treatment programs that only reach a limited number of IDUs. To overcome this limitation, alternative designs are considered and initiated. This article describes a community-based approach to needle exchange that is built on empowerment of, and in…
The Finishing Moment: Temporal and Spatial Features of Sexual Interactions between Streetwalkers and Car Clients
Field research on prostitution has ignored the actual interactions between prostitutes and their clients. This gap is, in part, the result of the over-reliance of research on data of a confessional nature. This paper reports on the results of a field research study of street prostitution in a large Dutch city. Experimentation with the
A World of Opportunities: Life-Style and Economic Behavior of Heroin Addicts in Amsterdam
Illegal Drug Use, Alcohol and Aggressive Crime Among Mexican-American and White Male Arrestees in San Antonio
This research explores the relationship between use of certain drugs and aggressive crimes among Mexican-American and White male arrestees in San Antonio, Texas, for 1992. This is based on a Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) sample of 534 male arrestees administered a drug urine analysis test and questionnaire by the Department of Justice and the city of San Antonio. Using a four-way asymmetrical analysis, logit-models were tested to examine the relatio…
Keeping off, stepping on and stepping off: The steppingstone theory reevaluated in the context of the Dutch cannabis experience
AUTHORS' NOTE: The authors are indebted to a large number of people in both the Netherlands and the United States who took the time to read and comment on drafts of this paper. Simon Stack provided continual editorial input. Dr. Adriaan C. M. Jansen of the University of Amsterdam, Bert Bieleman of Intraval, Groningen-Rotterdam, and Hans Dupont of the International Institute for Psycho-Social and Socio-Ecological Research in Maastricht provided in…
Debate: Drug Policy in Europe
Retrospective Study of Similarities and Relations Between American Drug-Free and European Therapeutic Conmmnities for Children and Adults
This article focuses on the similarities and relations between the European therapeutic community for children and adults on the one hand and the American drug-free "concept" therapeutic community on the other. Both approaches are reviewed in a historical and comparative perspective with special attention to several critical issues: democracy versus hierarchy, self-help versus professionalism, psychoanalysis versus behaviorism and concept versus …
The Process of Paradoxical Autonomy and Survival in the Heroin Careers of Mexican American Women
This study focuses on the process of paradoxical autonomy and survival in the heroin careers of Mexican American women. We explore how gender roles among Mexican American female heroin users influence the emergence of a paradoxical autonomy. Five key subprocesses of this autonomy were identified from 14 life history narratives: sustaining employment, working the welfare system, illegal activities, emotional aloofness, and loss of family and child…
Where have all the Fieldnotes Gone? The Changing Nature and Politics of Drugs Ethnography in the Netherlands
A critical review of Dutch drugs ethnography over the past two decades addresses the importance of fieldnotes and the influence of the wider policy context on the research process. Three generations of Dutch drugs ethnographers are distinguished. In the work of the first generation, fieldnotes played a primary role in the research process. This value was tied to the policy need to have first-hand knowledge of drug users themselves in order to for…
Emergent young adult lifestyles and drug use patterns in a runaway world
Improving social psychiatric treatment in residential programmes for emerging dependence groups in Europe: Cross‐border networking, methodological innovations and substantive discoveries
A mini‐symposium series of papers presenting the results of the European Commission‐supported Biomed II project is introduced. The project accomplished a cross‐border scientific networking engaging 31 European residential treatment programmes. The results showed that scientific development is best served by a flexible bureaucratic approach. ‘Old’ science and the ‘new’ science ways of working were balanced. ‘History’ and ‘social networks’ are the …
Social epidemiologic comparisons in a European cohort of substance‐dependent therapeutic community clients: A case‐oriented analysis
A case‐oriented analytical approach compared the index national case of France with the typical European outcome, other European cases and American results on social epidemiological indicators. Modal distributions were found to be most similar between the French sample and the total European sample on most social network items in a European therapeutic community cohort ( n =723). The characteristics of the American and our sample were also found …
The Videotaped Addiction Challenge Tool: A new instrument for qualitative substance abuse assessment, treatment planning and research in therapeutic communities
This article describes the different phases of the development and implementation of the Videotaped Addiction Challenge Tool (VACT, initially termed the Video Addiction Challenge Test). This instrument employs a video depicting the `average life‐story' of a resident of a Therapeutic Community for substance abusers. The video film is used as a clinical method for assessment and individual treatment planning, and as a research instrument that gives…
Psychology (33 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Medicine (22 works) · Psychiatry (22 works) · Political science (19 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Environmental health (11 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (11 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (10 works)