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Women and problem gambling : therapeutic insights into understanding addiction and treatment / Liz Karter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karter, Elizabeth, 1966- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women gamblers.
- Compulsive gambling.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (167 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hove, East Sussex : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 realistic hope of a way out.With the significant increase in women gambling problematically, Women and Problem Gambling aims to answer the often asked question 'who is to blame?' the text covers:the role of the gambling industrythe role
- Contents:
- Growing the problem
- Why take the risk?
- Sliding into trouble
- Escaping to a trap
- Rock bottom
- Assessing reality
- Creating a therapeutic experience
- Ambivelence
- Chapter nineunderstanding why
- Relapse prevention
- One woman's story
- Reflections on practice.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-74687-0
- 0-203-56543-6
- 1-299-31978-5
- 1-136-74680-3
- 9780203565438
- OCLC:
- 831117906
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