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...

Table of Contents:

• Prevalence
• Youth Gambling in North America
• Youth Gambling Problems: Correlates and Risk Factors
• Demographic, Psychosocial, and Behavioral Factors Associated with Youth Gambling and Problem Gambling
• Gambling, Depression, and Suicidality in Adolescents
• Gambling and Drug Abuse in Adolescence
• Adolescent Problem Gambling
• New Technologies
• Youth and Technology
• Measurement Issues
• The Measurement of Youth Gambling Problems
• Treatment
• A Dynamic Process Perspective on Gambling Problems
• A Treatment Approach for Adolescents with Gambling Problems
• A Pathways Approach to Treating Youth Gamblers
• Prevention
• Prevention Efforts Toward Reducing Gambling Problems
• Social Policy Issues
• Youth Gambling Problems.