Clinician's Guide to Working with Problem Gamblers

Henrietta Bowden-Jones is a doctor trained in psychiatry and neuroscience. She is Founder and Director of the National Problem Gambling Clinic CNWL NHS Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Brain Science Division, Imperial College, UK.Sanju George is a consultant in addiction psychiatry, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, and is an opinion leader in the field of gambling addiction.

• Bowden-Jones, George, Introduction. Wardle, The British Gambling Prevalence Surveys. Roaf, Gambling and Public Health. Geel, Etiology of Problem Gambling. Smith, Shah, Cognitive Behavioural Models of Problem Gambling. Clark, Neurobiology of Gambling. Gaston, Psychiatric Comorbidity in Gambling. Velleman, Cousins, Orford, Effects of Gambling on the Family. Kaspar, Gambling: Screening, Assessment and Diagnosis. Petry, Psychological Treatments: Brief Interventions, Cognitive Behavioural Treatments, Counselling and Gamblers Anonymous. Bullock, Potenza, Pharmacological Treatments. George, Bowden-Jones, Family Interventions in Gambling. Dhillon, Gambling and Women. Essau, Gambling and Young People. Griffiths, Remote Gambling. Appendices.

"Problem gambling is being increasingly recognised as a major addiction that can create significant problems for patients and their families. This volume emerges from the experience of the clinicians who have to deal with it on a daily basis and brings together experts in the range of sciences that underpin an improved knowledge of gambling, how it can become an addiction, and how best to help people overcome it." – David Nutt, the Edmond J. Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology Imperial College London'A useful and informative textbook based on the work of the first and only NHS national clinic in the UK, this clinicians' guide will teach many health professionals and students the most evidence-based approach to tackling problem gambling issues' – Simon Wessely, President, Royal College of Psychiatrists