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Winner of the 2020 Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) Counselling Book Award Enlightening and practical, Addictions Counseling Today invites students into the heart of addictive thinking, offering first-person accounts of what it is like to experience different addictions. The text covers the range of addictions from alcohol, drug abuse, and nicotine to various process addictions, including sex, internet, gaming, social media, and gambling. Also included are the various theories and models of addiction, with a unique chapter on the neuroscience of addiction. Focusing on the new DSM-V classifications for addiction with an emphasis on CACREP and treatment, this provocative, contemporary text is an essential reference for both students and practitioners wanting to gain a deeper understanding of those with addiction. Learn why teaching addictions is changing and how to adapt your course by watching Kevin G. Alderson's Ph.D. webinar entitled The Pandemic Addiction Volcano here. Online Resources Free PowerPoint® slides with video for instructors are available with this text. Test bank questions will be available in August 2020. Contact the author to learn more.
Gambling Addiction
Gambling Addiction
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Learning Objectives
- Learn about the history of gambling.
- Become familiar with the qualities and characteristics of compulsive gamblers.
- Be able to define gambling disorder (GD) and know how to diagnose it.
- Become informed about the possible consequences that could result from excessive gambling.
- Discover best practices in counseling individuals with GD.
Challenging Your Assumptions About This Addiction
- Often individuals with GD will stop gambling on their own. In what ways, if any, does knowing this challenge your definition of addiction?
- The legal age to gamble varies from state to state and, in some cases, by the type of gambling. Should there be a uniform age? Why or why not? (see https://www.worldcasinodirectory.com/gambling_age_chart.htm to compare legal gambling age, state by state).
- Before reading the chapter, what images come into your mind ...
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