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Overcoming gambling addiction : a self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques / Alex Blaszczynski.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Overcoming series (London, England)Publisher: London Robinson, 2017Copyright date: 2017Edition: 2nd editionDescription: vi, 314 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781472138682
  • 1472138686
Other title:
  • Gambling addiction
Uniform titles:
  • Overcoming compulsive gambling
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 616.858410651 BLA 23
Contents:
Part 1: About problem gambling. Part 2: A self-help cognitive behavioural approach to overcoming problem gambling
Summary: Take control of your habit and your life. Struggling with a gambling habit? If you feel that a 'flutter' has evolved into something out of your control, this indispensable book is for you. This self-help manual uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques, aspects of which were pioneered by clinical psychologist Professor Alex Blaszczynski, and now used all over the world, to help with gambling addiction. It will help you to understand how your own gambling problem has developed and what is keeping it going; also, crucially, how to develop the motivation to stop and control any future urges to gamble again. This fully revised and updated new edition takes into account the growth of sport betting and the increased ease of online gambling, as well improvements in clinical interventions.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Positive Living 616.858410651 BLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 08/06/2023 220260

Previous edition published as Overcoming compulsive gambling in 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: About problem gambling. Part 2: A self-help cognitive behavioural approach to overcoming problem gambling

Take control of your habit and your life. Struggling with a gambling habit? If you feel that a 'flutter' has evolved into something out of your control, this indispensable book is for you. This self-help manual uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques, aspects of which were pioneered by clinical psychologist Professor Alex Blaszczynski, and now used all over the world, to help with gambling addiction. It will help you to understand how your own gambling problem has developed and what is keeping it going; also, crucially, how to develop the motivation to stop and control any future urges to gamble again. This fully revised and updated new edition takes into account the growth of sport betting and the increased ease of online gambling, as well improvements in clinical interventions.

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