Jean - Marc Ménard (Domrémy MCQ addiction center) and Chrystian Roussel (Maison Jean Lapointe) for their collaboration in the development of the Adapted Couple Therapy (ACT)
for pathological gamblers.
In a recent study, Petry and Oncken (2002) examined whether a similar relationship exists
for pathological gamblers.
Nevertheless, it was at Brecksville, as recently as 1972, that Dr. Robert L. Custer, a psychiatrist who is now chief of treatment services of the Mental Health and Behavioral Science Service of the U.S. Veterans Administration, founded the world's first treatment center
for pathological gamblers.
Not exact matches
The UI study, which was the largest of its kind in the world to date, recruited and assessed 95
pathological gamblers and 91 control subjects, matched
for age, sex, and level of education, from Iowa, as well as 1,075 first - degree adult relatives of the study participants (first - degree relatives include parents, siblings, and children.)
Triggering
pathological gamblers to envision a future personal experience reduces their preference
for an immediate reward over a larger, delayed award, according to a study published in eNeuro.
The South Oaks gambling screen (SOGS): A new instrument
for the identification of
pathological gamblers.
People start on the path to
pathological gambling
for many reasons — financial problems, the
gambler's fallacy, upbringing, etc. — but what determines whether one will become a problem
gambler is how one deals with the addictiveness of gambling and the emotions gambling evokes.