Pathological Gambling
Treatments
Treatment Summary: A number of treatments Option has been provided to individual curtail or stop altogether. Specific Treatment includes the following: 1. Credit Card Reduction Programs ( aimed at helping employees to provide assistance to those with chronic gambling problems 2. Counselors who are nationally certified specifically treat clients with gambling problems Note: Despite increasing awareness pathological gambling is still a chronic problem in the US as well as other parts of the world. There is no one real solution to this epidemic. The fact remains that most pathological gamblers do not seek treatment.
- Reference: DOWLING, N. (2009). Client characteristics associated with treatment attrition and outcome in female pathological gambling. Addiction Research & Theory, 17(2), 205-219. doi: 10.1080/16066350802346193
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