Research Catalog

Title

Problem and pathological gambling / James P. Whelan, Timothy A. Steenbergh, Andrew W. Meyers.

Author

Whelan, James P.

Publication

Toronto : Hogrefe, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Meyers, Andrew W., 1949-
• Steenbergh, Timothy A.

Description

x, 90, [24] p. : ill., forms; 26 cm.

Summary

"The objective of this book is to provide the clinician - or graduate student - with essential information about problem and pathological gambling. After placing this behavioral addiction and its co-occurring difficulties in perspective, by describing its proliferation, the associated costs, and diagnostic criteria and definitions, the authors present detailed information of a strategy to assess and treat gambling problems in an outpatient setting."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Advances in psychotherapy--evidence-based practice

Uniform Title

Advances in psychotherapy--evidence-based practice

Subject

• Compulsive gambling
• Compulsive gambling > Diagnosis
• Compulsive gambling > Treatment
• Compulsive gamblers > Rehabilitation
• Jeux de hasard > Comportement compulsif
• Jeux de hasard > Comportement compulsif > Diagnostic
• Jeux de hasard > Comportement compulsif > Traitement
• Joueurs compulsifs > Réadaptation
• Gambling > psychology
• Behavior, Addictive > diagnosis
• Behavior, Addictive > rehabilitation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references : p. [82]-90.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Description of problem and pathological gambling -- 2. Theories and models -- 3. Diagnosis and treatment indications -- 4. Treatment -- 5. Case vignette -- 6. Further reading -- 7. References -- 8. Appendices : tools and resources.

ISBN

• 9780889373129
• 0889373124

LCCN

^^2007922289

OCLC

• 84989476
• SCSB-11896999

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library