Gambling Problems in Youth Theoretical and Applied Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Derevensky, Jeffrey L. (Editor), Gupta, Rina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Clinical psychology.; Health psychology.; Health Psychology.; Clinical Psychology.

Howard J. Shaffer, Ph. D. More than 20 years ago, I first noted that young people in North America were growing up in a context of legalized gambling for their entire lifetime. By the 1980s, for young people, gambling had become an average and expectable part of the social landscape. Amid legal oppo...