ADDICTION PROFESSIONAL - NAADAC PSYCHOLOGIST PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR - MFT - NBCC SOCIAL WORKER

Addiction Professional - NAADAC

Compulsive Gambling

Credits

7 CE credit hours training

Cost

$38.50

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Target audience and instructional level of this course: foundational

There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.

TRAINING

Course Description

Gambling addictions do not see color, age, race or gender. This course addresses women who gamble, children at risk, senior gamblers, biological factors related to gambling, trait and personality factors, learned behaviors, personal factors, relationship implications, legal and financial issues, treatment issues, treatment strategies, medication and support groups.

GAMBLING, for the compulsive gambler is defined as follows: Any betting or wagering, for self or others, whether for money or not, no matter how slight or insignificant, where the outcome is uncertain or depends upon chance or 'skill' constitutes gambling.

About Compulsive Gambling
Compulsive gambling is the obvious symptom of an emotional disorder. The emotional factors involved are: inability or unwillingness to accept reality, emotional insecurity, basic immaturity, and lack of self-esteem. The gambler finds that he or she is most comfortable when gambling. Many psychiatrists feel that the gambler has an underlying need for self-destruction. Compulsive gambling brings despair and humiliation into the lives of countless thousands of men, women and children. The compulsive gambler is a person who is dominated by an irresistible urge to gamble. Coupled with this is the obsessive idea that a way will be found not only to control the gambling, but to "make it pay" and en

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