Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-171) and index.

The Research Contex -- Contemporary Gambling Worldwide -- Historical Themes -- Definitions of Gambling -- Legalised Forms of Gambling and their Consumption -- Consumption of Gambling -- Definitions: Excessive, Problem and Pathological Gambling -- Excessive Gambling -- Problem Gambling -- Pathological Gambling -- Measures of Excessive, Problem and Pathological Gambling -- Prevalence of Problem Gambling -- Risk Factors: Emerging Causal Themes -- Access and Continuous Forms -- Research Requirements -- Research into Impaired Control of Gambling Behaviour, Definition and Measurement: Traditional Psychometric and Mathematical Psychology Approaches -- Gambling as One of the Addictions -- Problem Gambling as the Dependent Variable -- Self-Control as the Dependent Variable in Problem Gambling Research -- The Development of the Scale of Gambling Choices -- Independent Confirmation of the Dimension of Self-Control of Gambling Behaviour -- The Subjective Control Scale of Control Over Urges to Gamble -- A Qualitative Study of Self-Control in Youth Gamblers -- No Specific Limits (N = 3) -- Target Limits (N = 12, plus N = 5 who revise limits once only) -- Contingency Limits: Continually Revising or Setting Vague or Broad Limits (N = 14) -- Emotions and the Ability to Self-Regulate Gambling -- Reported Harmful Impacts and the Ability to Self-Regulate -- The Relationship Between Impaired Control and Chasing -- Impaired Control and Different Forms of Gambling -- Progress in the Measurement and Definition of Impaired Control of Gambling Behaviour -- The SGC 12-items -- Reliability -- Validity -- Impaired control and its relationship to other variables implicated in the development of pathological gambling -- Initial thoughts on Modelling Impaired Self-Control: Key Variables -- A Developmental Perspective on Impaired Control of Gambling -- Psychosocial Maturity, Self-Regulation and Reported Harmful Impacts of Gambling -- The Key Variables in Modelling Impaired Control -- Gambling Involvement -- Prior Mood and Emotion while Gambling -- Personality -- Alcohol -- The Role of Cognitive Variables -- The Role of Coping -- A Conceptual Basis for Modelling Impaired Self-Control of Gambling -- Models of Impaired Self-Control of Gambling -- Empirical Model of EGM Play -- Main Study (O'Connor et al., 2005) -- Materials -- Descriptive Results for Main Variables -- Summary of Regression Analyses -- Critical Comment on Methodology -- Discussion of Empirical Findings -- Theoretical Speculations -- Modelling Impaired Self-Control: A Model of Gambling Temptation -- Restraint -- Data Collection -- Sample Characteristics -- Discussion of the Two Approaches to Exploring Impaired Self-Control -- Implications for Treatment Approaches to Problem Gambling Arising from the Model of Impaired Control -- Do Existing Treatments Work? Conclusions from Treatment Literature Reviews -- The Bio-psychosocial Model as a Basis for Treatment -- Implications of the Model of Impaired Control for Treatment Methods -- Implications for Treatment Goals -- Implications for Harm Minimisation in the Management of Problem Gambling: Making Sense of "Responsible Gambling" -- Harm Minimisation and Gambling -- Educational Strategies -- Preventing Problem Gamblers from Further Harm -- Rendering the Process of Gambling Safer for all Consumers -- Impaired Control of Regular Gamblers: A Social and Consumer Protection Issue -- A Case Study of "Responsible Gambling" Strategies within a Single Jurisdiction: Victoria, Australia -- The Introduction of Gaming Machines -- The Victorian Problem Gambling Services Strategy -- Problem Gambling Community Education Campaigns -- Direct Treatment Services -- Harm Minimisation -- Research -- Victoria: A Successful Public Health Approach or a Failure of Consumer Protection? -- Impaired Self-Control of Gambling -- Measurement -- Key Psychological Variables -- Cognitions and Chasing -- In the Present Context -- On the Nature of Impaired Self-control of Gambling -- Implications for Pathological Gambling -- Implications for Problem Gambling Policy -- Implications for Addiction .