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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|32 pages
Africa
chapter 1|30 pages
Gambling Amongst South African Women
part 2|40 pages
America
chapter 4|10 pages
South America
part 3|24 pages
Asia
chapter 5|12 pages
A Mother and a Gambler
chapter 6|10 pages
A Review of Literature
part 4|136 pages
Europe
chapter 7|13 pages
Factors Influencing Treatment-Seeking Behavior in Female Pathological Gamblers
chapter 10|12 pages
Gender and Responsible Gambling in Spain
chapter 12|11 pages
Effectiveness of Self-Exclusion
chapter 13|14 pages
The ‘Re-Feminisation’ of Gambling
chapter 14|13 pages
Overcoming Barriers
chapter 15|9 pages
‘Getting Your Money for Nothing’
part 5|46 pages
Oceania