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Background: Gambling disorder, recognized in DSM-5 as a behavioral addiction, is associated with a range of adverse outcomes. However, there has been little research on the genetic and environmental influences on the development of this disorder. This study reports results from the largest twin study of GD conducted to date.

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Pathological Gambling: Etiology, Comorbidity, and Treatment examines the prevalence and consequences of problem gambling as well as approaches to treatment. In this comprehensive book, Petry clarifies the current understanding of gambling as a disorder, including its levels of intensity; possible origins in biological, neurological, developmental, and environmental spheres; and special issues surrounding populations that seem to be more susceptible to problem gambling, including youth, ethnic minorities, and those with comorbid affective disorders such as depression.

The author reviews treatments commonly used for pathological gambling as well as nonprofessionally guided interventions such as Gamblers Anonymous. Petry then presents her own brief cognitive-behavioral approach, whose success is empirically proven in the largest known study of psychosocial treatments of problem gamblers.

This book represents a review of everything currently known about problem gambling as well as promising treatment approaches, making it an invaluable, comprehensive resource for both therapists and researchers in the field of pathological gambling.

Acknowledgments

I. Foundations for Understanding

1. Introduction
2. Terminology, Prevalence Rates, and Types of Gambling
3. Assessment

II. Etiology

4. Demographic Correlates
5. Comorbidity of Disordered Gambling and Other Psychiatric Disorders
6. Neurobiology and Genetics

III. Research on Interventions

7. Pharmacotherapies
8. Recovery Without Professional Intervention
9. Therapy for Families and Significant Others
10. Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Treatments
11. Early Behavioral Treatments
12. Cognitive Biases and Cognitive Therapy

IV. A Treatment Model

13. Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy
14. Brief and Motivational Interventions

V. Conclusions

15. Prevention: Focus on Gambling in Youth and Young Adults
16. Conclusions

Appendix A

Appendix B

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Appendix C

Appendix D

References

Author Index

Subject Index

About the Author

Nancy M. Petry earned a BA in 1990 from Randolph-Macon Woman's College and a PhD from Harvard University in 1994. In 1996, she joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut Health Center, where she is a professor of psychiatry.

She conducts research on the treatment of addictive disorders, ranging from substance use disorders to pathological gambling, and has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles. Her work is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Dr. Petry serves as a consultant and advisor for the National Institute of Health, and she is on the editorial boards of six academic journals. She received the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in 2003.

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