Gambling As an Addictive Behaviour - Impaired Control, Harm Minimisation, Treatment and Prevention

Klappentext This book presents research into gambling, showing the psychological variables that govern erosion or maintenance of self-control. Zusammenfassung 'If thinking about addiction is going to change! the study of excessive gambling is likely to be one of the richest sources of new ideas' (Jim Orford). This book presents a research-based model of impaired control. Impaired control is considered to be the basis of all addictive behaviours! especially gambling. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Jim Orford; 1. The research context; 2. Research into impaired control of gambling behaviour: definition and measurement: traditional psychometric and mathematical psychology approaches; 3. Impaired control and its relationship to other variables implicated in the development of pathological gambling; 4. Models of impaired self-control of gambling; 5. Implications for treatment approaches to problem gambling arising from the model of impaired control; 6. Implications for harm minimisation in the management of problem gambling: making sense of 'responsible gambling'; 7. A case study of 'responsible gambling' strategies within a single jurisdiction: Victoria, Australia; 8. Conclusions; Index.

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• Authors: &apos, John Connor, Mark Dickerson, Mark O&apos Dickerson, Mark O''connor Dickerson, Dickerson Mark, John O'Connor
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.07.2011
• EAN: 9780521399197
• ISBN: 978-0-521-39919-7
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: International Research Monogra; International Research Monographs in the Addictions
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Games, quizzes; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Medical professions; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, Addiction & therapy, Addiction and therapy