ABSTRACT

Behavioural Addiction in Women gives insight into ongoing research efforts and clinical developments across the globe, focusing specifically on women with behavioural addictions.

The book brings together an international network of clinicians and researchers to offer a unique transcultural female perspective on female-specific aspects of addiction, which is underrepresented in the available literature. By compiling both research and clinical spotlights focusing on women with behavioural addictions across the six continents, the book is an important first step towards building a shared knowledge base on the subject, starting from the importance of female-specific diagnostic criteria, to new therapeutic strategies, prevention programs, and harm reduction approaches. This book will help us gain a better understanding of ongoing work and where to allocate our attention and efforts for helping a vulnerable, and - in many areas of the world - still underserved, and economically disadvantaged, population.

The book will be of great interest to researchers and clinicians in the field of addiction.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

Why Do We Need a Female-Specific Perspective on Behavioural Addiction in Women?

part I|10 pages

Africa

chapter 1|8 pages

South African Women Risk-Takers

An Exploration of Risky Behaviour during Periods of Constraint

part II|38 pages

North America

chapter 2|23 pages

Women's Wellbeing

Illuminating the Harmful Impact of a Partner's Compulsive Sexual Behaviours

part IV|64 pages

Asia

chapter 8|9 pages

Women, Love, and Sexuality in Saudi Arabia

A Window to Our World

chapter 9|6 pages

Women's Pornography Use in China

part V|154 pages

Europe

chapter 16|7 pages

Gambling Disorders among Women with Suicidality

Guidance and Specificities

chapter 19|5 pages

Female Gamers

Psychosocial and Clinical Perspectives

chapter 20|7 pages

Food Addiction

Exploring Underlying Shared Factors in Obesity, Eating Disorders, and Behavioural Addictions in Women

part VI|15 pages

Oceania

chapter 30|7 pages

All That Glitters Is Not Gold

Women's Experiences of Using Gambling Venues to Escape Intimate Partner Violence