Gambling as an Addictive Behaviour

D.O.B 20 February 1958

Review of the hardback: ' … a good read … this book is likely to be of value to those with an interest in gambling research and policy.' British Journal of Psychiatry

• Foreword Jim Orford; 1. The research context; 2. Research into impaired control of gambling behaviour: definition and measurement: traditional psychometric and mathematical psychology approaches; 3. Impaired control and its relationship to other variables implicated in the development of pathological gambling; 4. Models of impaired self-control of gambling; 5. Implications for treatment approaches to problem gambling arising from the model of impaired control; 6. Implications for harm minimisation in the management of problem gambling: making sense of 'responsible gambling'; 7. A case study of 'responsible gambling' strategies within a single jurisdiction: Victoria, Australia; 8. Conclusions; Index.