Women and problem gambling therapeutic insights into understanding addiction and treatment
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 re...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge
2013.
Hove, East Sussex : 2013. |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798210806719 |
Table of 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.
