This edited volume aims to facilitate the evolution of the new public health approach towards gambling. Bringing together the work of international experts, it gives a current overview of the field, highlighting the need for a coordinated framework of prevention and harm reduction measures to replace current "player protection" measures.
Chapters begin by exploring the impact of problem gambling, looking at its effects on several levels, ranging from the individual to the family and society. Subsequently an overview of prevention and harm reduction models is presented, bringing the reader to an in-depth understanding of what a public health approach to gambling would entail. Later chapters focus on potential challenges to monitoring and evaluation, inviting the reader to envisage possible barriers towards implementation and ways of overcoming these. The book concludes with recommendations on how to take a harm reduction approach, from a political and human rights perspective.
This work gives a rare synopsis of the present-day issues when considering the implementation of a harm reduction strategy for gambling. Recent work by key professionals is presented in order to encourage further developments in this ever-changing domain. Such issues will be relevant to all those with an interest in the field of problem gambling, from clinicians, students and healthcare professionals, to politicians.
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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction |
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SECTION I Impact and current understanding of gambling disorder |
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2 Measuring harm from gambling and estimating its distribution in the population |
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3 The social cost of excessive gambling |
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4 The normalisation of dangerous gambling: an ethical issue |
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5 Family members affected by excessive gambling |
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6 Neurocognitive components of gambling disorder: implications for assessment, treatment and policy |
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SECTION II Harm reduction models and initiatives |
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7 Defining harm reduction as part of a public health approach towards gambling |
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8 Effective harm minimisation practices: public health implications |
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9 Harm prevention and reduction efforts in gambling disorder: an international perspective |
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10 The role of treatment in reducing gambling-related harm |
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11 Public health and gambling: the potential of nudge policies |
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12 Early detection of at-risk gambling to reduce harm |
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13 Behavioural tracking in gambling: the use and efficacy of online responsible gambling tools |
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SECTION III Challenges to evaluation and monitoring |
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14 A logical framework for the evaluation of a harm reduction policy for gambling |
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15 Is income derived from problem gambling a good assessment indicator of a responsible gambling strategy? |
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16 Challenges of online gambling for risk and harm reduction |
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| Conclusion |
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Henrietta Bowden-Jones is a Medical Doctor specialised in Addiction Psychiatry. She is the Founder and Director of the National Problem Gambling Clinic, UK and President of the Medical Women's Federation. She is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College.
Cheryl Dickson has a Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology. She specialised post-qualification in the field of problem gambling and has worked since 2009 for the Centre du jeu excessif (Centre for Excessive Gambling), Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland.
Caroline Dunand is a Psychologist who has worked for over ten years as a Research Fellow at the Centre du jeu excessif (Centre for Excessive Gambling), Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland.
Olivier Simon is a Psychiatrist with a Master of Public Health Degree. He is Head of the Centre du jeu excessif (Centre for Excessive Gambling), Lausanne University Hospital, and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine at University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
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