Youth Gambling : : The Hidden Addiction / / ed. by Jeffrey L. Derevensky, Daniel T. L. Shek, Joav Merrick.
Youth gambling represents a potentially serious public policy and health issue. Nevertheless, the rise in youth gambling issues and problems in the global context is not matched with a parallel increase in research on adolescent gambling. As such, there is an urgent need to conduct more studies on a...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Health, Medicine and Human Development
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Author index
- Introduction
- 1. Adolescent gambling
- 2. Understanding the etiology of youth gambling problems
- Prevalence of youth gambling and problem gambling
- 3. An international perspective on youth gambling prevalence studies
- Correlates, risk, and protective factors associated with youth gambling
- 4. Youth problem gambling: Our current knowledge of risk and protective factors
- 5. Defining and assessing binge gambling
- 6. Positive youth development and intention to gamble
- 7. Relationship between positive youth development and intention to gamble among Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong
- Technological changes in youth gambling
- 8. Remote gambling in adolescence
- Assessment Tools
- 9. A critical review of adolescent problem gambling assessment instruments
- Treating youth problem gamblers
- 10. Treatment of adolescent gambling problems: More art than science?
- 11. Seeking help online: A new approach for youth-specific gambling interventions
- 12. Adolescent problem gambling: Pharmacological treatment options
- Prevention initiatives
- 13. Youth gambling prevention initiatives: A decade of research
- 14. Prevention of gambling problems in adolescents: The role of problem gambling assessment instruments and positive youth development programs
- Acknowledgements
- 15. About the editors
- 16. The International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviors (Centre International d’étude sur le jeu et les comportements à risque chez les jeunes)
- 17. About the Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- 18. About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel
- Index