ABSTRACT

This book brings together an international selection of academics with expertise in problem gambling issues in women, with chapters reflecting ongoing work with female gamblers across the world in both group and individual settings. In choosing such a specific patient group, the authors aim to raise the profile of gambling disorders in women and also provide fellow professionals across the world with a shared understanding of evidence based treatment and recovery in problem gambling literature and research.

Gambling Disorders in Women: An International Female Perspective on Treatment and Research will provide professionals working in addictions and policy-making with much-needed knowledge about a seriously under-represented area, and about which many professionals feel they would like to know more. The book will also highlight different international approaches to the provision of treatment for women in each country as well as the epidemiology of the illness.

 

part 1|32 pages

Africa

chapter 1|30 pages

Gambling Amongst South African Women

An exploration of the impact of gambling over the past twenty years

part 2|40 pages

America

chapter 4|10 pages

South America

Women and compulsive gambling: caught between frustration and revenge

part 3|24 pages

Asia

chapter 5|12 pages

A Mother and a Gambler

Echoes of socio-cultural views in the perception of motherhood of Jewish Israeli women with gambling problems 1

chapter 6|10 pages

A Review of Literature

Gambling problems among the female populations in Hong Kong

part 4|136 pages

Europe

chapter 7|13 pages

Factors Influencing Treatment-Seeking Behavior in Female Pathological Gamblers

A comparison of treatment centers in Austria and Germany

chapter 9|17 pages

Female Gambling in Italy

A specific clinical experience

chapter 10|12 pages

Gender and Responsible Gambling in Spain

The Social Gambling Questionnaire for Women (SGQW-47), a new screening instrument

chapter 11|9 pages

Gambling and Gender in Sweden

chapter 12|11 pages

Effectiveness of Self-Exclusion

The experiences of female gamblers in three Swiss casinos

chapter 13|14 pages

The ‘Re-Feminisation’ of Gambling

Social, cultural and historical insights into female gambling behaviour in Great Britain

chapter 14|13 pages

Overcoming Barriers

A relational exploration of the treatment of women in an NHS problem gambling service in the UK

chapter 15|9 pages

‘Getting Your Money for Nothing’

Narratives of self and value in women's ‘at-home’ gambling practices

chapter 17|17 pages

Women and Gambling

A UK perspective

part 5|46 pages

Oceania