Women and Problem Gambling : Therapeutic insights into understanding addiction and treatment.

Addiction is much misunderstood. Women and addictive gambling even more so, and for many years women have suffered in silence. This book explores how lonely, troubled lives and damaging relationships lead to the trap of problem gambling, the anxiety and chaos whilst locked inside, and then offers re...

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Main Author: Karter, Liz
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
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505 0 |a Cover; Women and Problem Gambling: Therapeutic insights into understanding addiction and treatment; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Growing the problem; Chapter 2 Why take the risk?; Chapter 3 Sliding into trouble; Chapter 4 Escaping to a trap; Chapter 5 Rock bottom; Chapter 6 Assessing reality; Chapter 7 Creating a therapeutic experience; Chapter 8 Ambivalence; Chapter 9 Understanding why; Chapter 10 Relapse prevention; Chapter 11 One woman's story; Chapter 12 Reflections on practice; Referral organisations; References; Index. 
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