The Gambler's Toolbox

The Gambler's Toolbox
Author: Joe Raccuia
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2009-03-20
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1450080170

STOP BEING A SUCKER FOR THE CASINOS! In this book, casual and steady gamblers alike will gain some clear insight on how to consistently have more wins and break evens, than losses. How many times have you have heard people say “I have only brought a certain amount of money with me to lose”, while they were away on vacation in a Casino? This book will change your way of thinking when gambling, and will teach you to become a highly skilled gambler whose goal is to take the Casino’s money home and/or have anything you can get for free. It will show you how to improve your complimentary giveaways from the Casino. Everything from room, food and beverage, to free gifts, shows, golf, shopping, entire vacations and more. You don’t have to be a professional gambler to understand the methods shown here, and it doesn’t require a lot of time to learn or a lot of time in the Casino. Besides learning skills for Craps, Poker, and several other Casino games, you will learn a Blackjack system which will turn you into what the Casino’s call a “Highly Skilled Gambler” and fear almost as much as card counters!

The Human Services Counseling Toolbox

The Human Services Counseling Toolbox
Author: William A. Howatt
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Provides thorough coverage of counseling processes and techniques, and guides the user in developing an effective counseling style.

Addiction by Design

Addiction by Design
Author: Natasha Dow Schüll
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2012
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0691127557

machines stems from the consumer, the product, or the interplay between the two. --

Responsible Gambling

Responsible Gambling
Author: Howard J. Shaffer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2019-09-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0190074574

"Responsible gambling" refers to a range of strategies, initiatives, and activities introduced by gambling regulators, policymakers, and industry operators to reduce gambling-related harms. There is an absence of agreement about the definition of responsible gambling among these parties, and stakeholders' experiences reflect varied and often conflicting positions about the development, implementation, and maintenance of existing responsible gambling programs. Complicating these issues further, there is little empirical evidence supporting the current crop of responsible gambling activities. Consequently, there is a pressing need to bring together key similarities and differences associated with disparate stakeholder groups. Responsible Gambling: Primary Stakeholder Perspectives will inform and better ground both current and future debates focused on the topic of responsible gambling and its intended outcomes. Chapters address responsible gambling from the perspective of five groups of complementary stakeholders: scientists/researchers; clinicians; gambling operators; public policy makers/regulators; and recovering gamblers. Contributors address responsible gambling through the lens of the Reno Model, an approach that emphasizes the importance of stakeholders working together and using evidence-based methods to reduce gambling-related harms. Building upon and expanding the Reno Model and addressing conflicts and ethical compromises so that these programs can achieve their intended objectives (reducing the worldwide rate of gambling-related harms), Responsible Gambling will be of value to scientists, clinicians, policy makers, regulators, and industry operators interested in responsible gambling strategies and activities.

Problem and Pathological Gambling

Problem and Pathological Gambling
Author: James P Whelan
Publisher: Hogrefe Publishing GmbH
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1616763124

Over the past 30 years there has been a dramatic increase in the availability of convenient and legal gambling opportunities. Accompanying this proliferation of gambling is a growing understanding that between 5% and 9% of adults experience significant to severe problems due to their gambling activities. These problems have become a real health concern, with substantial costs to individuals, families, and communities. The objective of this book is to provide the clinician – or graduate student – with essential information about problem and pathological gambling. After placing this behavioral addiction and its co-occurring difficulties in perspective, by describing its proliferation, the associated costs, and diagnostic criteria and definitions, the authors present detailed information on a strategy to assess and treat gambling problems in an outpatient setting.

Gambling

Gambling
Author: Mark Dixon
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2006-05-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 160882778X

The rise in legalized gambling in the United States over the last fifteen years has led to much debate among scientists and practitioners about how to conceptualize and study the phenomenon, treat persons who experience difficulties controlling their level of play, and prevent individuals from becoming problem or 'pathological' gamblers. The current volume brings together a group of basic and applied behavior scientists to discuss these matters. Gambling is designed to allow readers familiar with the general concepts and principles of behavior analysis to understand how the field is addressing the area of gambling. Graduate students taking classes in behavioral applications, or those enrolled in seminars specific to gambling, will find this collection of papers a vital resource. The book will also be useful to clinicians interested in understanding the basic and conceptual foundations that underlie successful prevention and treatment approaches.

Treating Gambling Problems

Treating Gambling Problems
Author: William G. McCown
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2007-03-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0471484849

Full of practical information on assessing, diagnosing, and treating alcohol gambling addiction, this handy manual in the new Wiley Series on Treating Addictions is an invaluable tool for anyone who works with clients experiencing problems with gambling.

Change Your Gambling, Change Your Life

Change Your Gambling, Change Your Life
Author: Howard Shaffer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2012-03-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0470933070

A research-based guide to controlling the destructive urge to gamble From Howard Shaffer, PhD, a noted expert on gambling addiction, and Harvard Health Publications comes Change Your Gambling, Change your Life, a landmark new book which explains how gambling problems are related to other underlying issues: such as anxiety, mood fluctuation, difficulty with impulse control, and substance abuse problems. Dr. Shaffer offers a series of self-tests to help evaluate the degree of gambling problem and analyze the psychological and social context of the behavior, with specific strategies and approaches for ending the problems with simple tools that anyone can do. Explains why many people have a problem controlling their urge to gamble and how that can be corrected Includes a toolbox of resources for anyone who wants to stop the vicious cycle of gambling Offers advice for avoiding slips and preventing backslides and how to deal with the consequences With candor and expert advice, Change Your Gambling, Change Your Life provides proven techniques for controlling the urge to gamble.

Dostoevsky’s The Gambler

Dostoevsky’s The Gambler
Author: Svetlana Evdokimova
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2024-02-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1666945307

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Gambler is one of the most profound literary works to treat the phenomenon of gambling with a remarkable depth of psychological analysis and a wide-ranging cultural and philosophical exploration of obsessive behavior, from addictive gambling to erotic passion. This novel delves into the cultural, psychological, and philosophical issues surrounding games of chance such as temporality, freedom, rebellion, choice, uncertainty, determinism, and creativity. This is the first book in English dedicated to The Gambler. This volume considers the phenomenon of gambling from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, focusing not only on medical and psychological concepts of gambling as pathology, but also on the broader cultural, philosophical, religious, and aesthetic aspects of the problem. What triggers fascination with risk-taking and various aleatory activities? What are the relations between gambling, play, and creativity? Can gambling be seen as a form of social or existential rebellion and protest or even a quest for freedom? Scholars from a variety of fields, including psychiatry, psychology, philosophy, literary studies, and musicology, have contributed to this volume and analyzed Dostoevsky’s view of gambling as a fundamental problem of human existence, with implications in the realms of philosophy, religion, and aesthetics.