TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dickerson,Mark G.
AU  - O'Connor,John
TI  - Gambling as an addictive behaviour: impaired control, harm minimisation, treatment and prevention 
T2  - International research monographs in the addictions
SN  - 9780521847018 (hbk.)
AV  - RC569.5.G35 D53 2006
U1  - 616.858 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Compulsive gambling
N1  - 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
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