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Gambling as an Addictive Behaviour: Impaired Control, Harm Minimisation, Treatment and Prevention
Author(s) -
WEST ROBERT
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0965-2140
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.01785.x
Subject(s) - minimisation (clinical trials) , addiction , harm , citation , harm reduction , psychology , library science , psychiatry , medicine , social psychology , computer science , family medicine , pathology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)
“If thinking about addiction is going to change, the study of excessive gambling is likely to be one of the richest sources of new ideas” (Jim Orford). In this book, the authors present the most recent and evolving research into gambling, showing the psychological variables that govern the erosion or maintenance of self-control over gambling behaviour. These studies provide an empirical basis for a model of impaired control of gambling. Impaired control, in its broadest sense, is considered to be the defining psychological construct of all the addictive behaviours and occupies a central position in conceptualising the addictive aspects of gambling.