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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811547903321

Titolo

The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of disordered gambling / / edited by David C. S. Richard, Alex Blaszczynski, Lia Nower

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken : , : Wiley, , 2014

ISBN

1-78684-607-1

1-118-31611-8

1-118-31614-2

1-118-31607-X

1-118-31613-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (477 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BlaszczynskiAlex

NowerLia

Disciplina

616.85/841

Soggetti

Gambling - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Editors' foreword -- Foreword -- Contributors -- The conceptualization and diagnosis of disordered gambling / David C. S. Richard and Julia Humphrey -- Epidemiology : an international perspective / Rachel A. Volberg and Robert J. Williams -- Contributions from neuroscience, neuropsychology and neuroeconomics / Anna E. Goudriaan, Ruth J. van Holst, Dick J. Veltman and Wim van den Brink -- Behavioral risk factors in pathological gambling and treatment implications / Paul H. Delfabbro -- Dopamine and learning : brain-behavior interactions in disordered gambling / Julia Humphrey and David C.S. Richard -- Pathological gambling and personality traits / Molly A. Nikolas and Christopher J. Hopwood -- Case conceptualization with clients presenting with disordered gambling / Lori Rugle -- A review of problem gambling assessment instruments and brief screens / Randy Stinchfield -- Cognitive-behavioural therapy : translating research into clinical practice / Alex A. Blaszczynski and Lia L. Nower -- The cognitive-behavioural treatment of female problem gambling / Nicki A. Dowling -- Understanding gamblers anonymous : a practitioner's guide / Peter Ferentzy, Wayne Skinner and Paul Antze --



The care model : how to improve industry-government-health care provider linkages / Michael J. A. Wohl, Travis Sztainert and Matthew M. Young -- Predictors of treatment outcome in disordered gambling / David M. Ledgerwood, Amy Loree and Leslie H. Lundahl -- Gambling among teens, college students and youth / Caroline Temcheff, Renee St-Pierre and Jeffrey Derevensky -- The technological convergence of gambling and gaming practices.

Sommario/riassunto

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Disordered Gambling is a complete guide to the current empirical literature relating to the conceptualization, assessment, and treatment of disordered gambling. The international contributors are all experienced, practicing clinicians who discuss gambling within a global context. Best-practice guidelines for the clinical management of problem and disordered gamblingContains empirically derived findings that translate research into practical clinical applications that clinicians and counselors can use in understanding and treating problem