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Abstract

This study is an exploration, through ethnographic and auto-ethnographic inquiry, of the personal world, gambling experiences and underlying biopsychosocial vulnerabilities of three individual case studies - one male and two females - each representing a different sub-type of pathological gambler. It comprises the integration and implementation of a psycho-structural stage matching model to explore comorbidity and identify certain biopsychosocial manifestations in the respective stages of pathological gambling. Long term treatment strategies were identified and patient treatment matching was explored. Further, it comprises my personal relationship and therapeutic treatment of these sub-types of gamblers over a period of one year and longer.

In this study it is hypothesized that formulating appropriate matching long term treatment strategies should be based on the stage of change, the phase in the psycho-structural model, as well as the gambler's underlying vulnerability. From this a comprehensive gambling disposition profile can be completed with proper intervention matching approaches. A number of other hypotheses emerged from this study that could provide valuable information and serve as a guideline to those working with pathological gamblers.

Details

Title
Treatment Development in Problem and Pathological Gambling
Author
Bulwer, Miranda
Publication year
2006
Publisher
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
ISBN
9798280797161
Source type
Dissertation or Thesis
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
304773834
Copyright
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.