| Description |
xvi, 340 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Practical resources for the mental health professional |
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Practical resources for the mental health professional.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-292). |
| Contents |
The Twenty Percent Difference -- A Clinician's Experience -- The Other Twenty Percent -- Need for a Comprehensive Clinical Mind -- The Case for a Pragmatic Approach -- Countertransference and the Three Ways -- The Scope of Social and Problem Gambling -- Social and Recreational Gambling -- Scope of Problem Gambling -- Research on Causes and Treatment of Pathological Gambling -- Risk Factors -- Individual Differences: Models and Research -- General Personality Characteristics -- Affective-Motivational Variables -- Cognitive Distortions -- Treatment Approaches -- A Self-Regulation Model for Understanding Pathological Gambling -- Advantages of Self-Regulation Theory -- Self-Regulation Theory: General Features -- Self-Regulation Theory: Specific Mechanisms -- Risk-Taking: The Missing Ingredient in a Comprehensive Understanding of Pathological Gambling -- The Downside of Egotism -- The Psychological Function of Self-Esteem -- Diagnosis and Assessment of Pathological Gambling -- Pathological Gambling and the DSM -- The Clinical Picture -- DSM Criteria -- Robert Custer and Stages of Gambling -- Gambling Assessment Instruments -- Gambling Subtypes -- Problem Versus Nonproblem Gambling -- Comorbidity -- Personality Assessment of Pathological Gamblers -- The Lifetime NORC DSM-IV Screen for Gambling Problems -- The South Oaks Gambling Screen -- Overview of Clinical Interventions: A Plea for Family Involvement -- Empirical Basis -- Treatment Modalities -- Format -- Motivational Enhancement, Stages of Change, and Goal-Setting. |
| Subject |
Compulsive gambling -- Treatment -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Gambling -- psychology.
(DNLM)D005715Q000523
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Counseling -- methods.
(DNLM)D003376Q000379
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Psychotherapy -- methods.
(DNLM)D011613Q000379
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Compulsive gambling -- Treatment.
(OCoLC)fst00871978
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Compulsive gamblers. (OCoLC)fst00871965
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals. (OCoLC)fst01423877
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| ISBN |
0121746534 (alk. paper) |
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9780121746537 (alk. paper) |
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