ABSTRACT
This session caters for the needs of problem gamblers' signi®cant others (including partners, children, parents, work colleagues, friends, siblings, other relatives). The overall goal is to teach the signi®cant other strategies to cope/deal with the client's behaviours so they can assist with achieving and maintaining a change in the client's gambling behaviours. More speci®cally, the session aims to:
assist the signi®cant other to understand the client's gambling behaviours;
assist the signi®cant other to identify ineffective ways of dealing with the client's
gambling problems and the resulting consequences;
teach the signi®cant other strategies to improve the client's readiness to change and
assist him/her through recovery;
teach the signi®cant behaviours and negative consequences of his/her gambling; discuss self-care strategies (including the importance of self-care) with the signi®cant other.
