GAMBLING, for the compulsive gambler is defined as follows: Any betting or wagering, for self or others, whether for money or not, no matter how slight or insignificant, where the outcome is uncertain or depends upon chance or 'skill' constitutes gambling.

Learning Obectives:

1. Identify maladaptive behavior and thinking as it relates to the addiction process.
2. Differentiate between the motives for gambling among different gambling types.
3. Integrate the underlying personality dynamics in assessing pathological gambling.
4. Explain the importance of looking at the entire psychosocial environment when assessing pathological gambling.
5. Demonstrate how DSM-IV Criteria and GA Twenty Questions are used in diagnosis.
6. Differentiate between other disorders and pathological gambling.
7. Identify specific learning interventions for pathological gamblers in treatment.
8. Develop a therapeutic cognitive approach in dealing with a pathological gambler.
9. Identify significant psychological factors in the development of a gambling disorder.
10. Integrate working treatment plan skills.

The Following topics will be discussed
in this training:

• Gambling Addiction
• The Winning Phase
• The Losing Phase
• The Desperation Phase
• 5 Different Types of Gamblers
• Some characteristics of a person who is a compulsive gambler.
• The recovery program
• Gambler's Anonymous program outline
• Gam-Anon
• Living With A Compulsive Gambler
• Escape Gamblers
• Gender Differences and Gambling
• The progressive Nature of Gambling
• Codependency and Gamblers
• New Coping Skills
• Women, Gambling and Empowerment
• Recover Rate
• Seniors and Gambling
• A Case Study
• Problem-solving skills in Male and Female problem gamblers
• Problem-solving skills
• Problem-Solving and Solution-Building Approaches
• Negotiating Goals When There Are Multiple Problems
• Relapses and Setbacks
• A Five-Step Model of Relapse Management
• The story of a gambler's spouse
• A woman's perspective on Gambling
• Are Depression and Gambling related?
• Theory on hitting bottom by Carol R.
• Confidence as Opposed to Ego
• Gambling and Suicide