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Gambling Addiction CEU GF01 Pathological Gambling

OnlineCEUcredit.com “Pathological Gambling: Interventions for the Family”, “Track 1 - 3 Factors of Pathological Gambling” - GF This video is excerpted from a track from the continuing education course “Pathological Gambling: Interventions for the Family”, “Track 1 3 Factors of Pathological Gambling”. The course is written for counselors, social workers, MFTs, and psychologists. As you are aware, pathological gambling is in its own category by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Compulsive gamblers are engrossed in gambling so much that they may feel anxious when they are not gambling. Money, for pathological gamblers, is seen as the solution and root of their problems. Factor #1: Cost of Gambling Clients who are compulsive gamblers often bet money in larger amounts than they intended and these amounts easily snowball. When compulsive gamblers lose their money, they try to win back their money rather than stopping. Because of this gambling becomes all consuming, taking time away from relationships, work, and other things that are important to them. They may borrow money or even break the law in order to continue their gambling habit. Factor #2: Co-Occurring Disorders Unfortunately, most of the time compulsive gambling occurs in tandem with other problems. For example, roughly three quarters of pathological gamblers suffer from ADD. Additionally, half of gamblers with ADD have issues controlling their alcohol consumption. Many professionals believe that gambling works as a self-medicating behavior to make clients feel better briefly. This information is intended for psychologists, MFTs, counselors, and social workers. Factor #3: Denial With a client that is a pathological gambler there is denial not just from the client but from family members as well about this issue. Through denial, clients and loved ones try to minimize the issue, rationalize the gambling, justify the client’s behavior, or explain away the behavior. Denial can be as simple as not acknowledging that gambling is happening at all. Denial can also be acknowledging that gambling is occurring but lying about the severity of the gambling. In the short term, denial may help to maintain harmony with loved ones and the client but in the long run it is destructive. By using denial, clients begin to internalize that they can lie to loved ones in order to put a bandaid on the situation. When family members take part in denial, they send a message that they support the client’s gambling. The course “Pathological Gambling: Interventions for the Family”, “Track 1 3 Factors of Pathological Gambling” is designed to give psychologists, social workers, MFTs, and counselors CE hours for their licensure renewal.