5 Courses on Gambling to Help Support Clients in their Recovery
Looking for gambling courses for Problem Gambling Awareness Month? Need to meet a requirement? Hoping to support your clients and grow your knowledge? Here are 5 hand-picked, popular courses on the topic!
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Predicting Gambling Situations – The Roles of Impulsivity Substance Use and Post-Traumatic Stress
1 CE Credit Hour | Reading Online | Trauma, Veteran, PTSD, Gambling | 4.5/5 Stars
This course is appropriate for intermediate and above levels of knowledge.
This intermediate-level course explores the complex relationship between post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), gambling disorder (GD), and comorbid factors such as impulsivity and substance use. Drawing on research involving both recreational gamblers and U.S. veterans undergoing treatment for GD, the course examines how PTSS uniquely predicts vulnerability to gambling in specific high-risk situations, including those involving negative affect, social pressure, and the need for excitement. Clinicians will gain insights into how trauma and psychological traits intersect to shape gambling behaviors, with emphasis on practical implications for assessment and tailored intervention in both civilian and veteran populations.
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Recovery Blindness: The Concept of Recovery in Veterans With a Gambling Disorder - A Scoping Review
1.25 CE Credit Hours | Reading Online | Harm Reduction, Veteran, Gambling | 4.5/5 Stars
This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.
The article highlights the lack of clear, consistent definitions of "recovery" in research on veterans with gambling disorder. Most studies focus narrowly on abstinence and symptom reduction, overlooking broader, strengths-based, or harm-reduction approaches. The review also points out the lack of diversity in study samples and a failure to consider natural recovery pathways or social and cultural factors. The authors call for more inclusive, veteran-centered research that views recovery as a holistic and individualized process.
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Dopamine and Risky Decision-Making in Gambling Disorder
1.25 CE Credit Hours | Reading Online | Pharmacotherapy, Gambling | 4.3/5 Stars
This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.
Gambling disorder is a behavioral addiction associated with impairments in value-based decision-making and cognitive control. These functions are thought to be regulated by dopamine within fronto-striatal circuits, but the role of altered dopamine neurotransmission in the etiology of gambling disorder remains controversial. Preliminary evidence suggests that increasing frontal dopamine tone might improve cognitive functioning in gambling disorder. We therefore examined whether increasing frontal dopamine tone via a single dose of the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) inhibitor tolcapone would reduce risky choice in human gamblers.
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Conceptualizing Gambling Disorder With the Process Model of Emotion Regulation
1 CE Credit Hour | Reading Online | Gambling, Emotional Dysregulation | 4.3/5 Stars
This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.
Nowadays, gambling disorder (GD) is a worldwide health issue and there is a growing need to both improve our understanding of this disorder and to tailor specific interventions for its treatment. Moreover, theoretical models and preliminary empirical results suggest that difficulty in regulating emotional states might be involved in GD. However, literature describing clinical and theoretical aspects of emotional dysregulation among pathological gamblers (PGs) shows a lack of systematic description. This article tries to provide, a theoretical framework of emotion regulation (ER) processing and empirical evidence supporting a conceptual model of GD as an ER affliction.
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Examination of the Problem Gambling Severity Index for Use With Older Adults: A Rasch Model Approach
1.25 CE Credit Hours | Reading Online | Older Adults, Gambling, Distinct Populations | 4.1/5 Stars
This course is appropriate for intermediate and above levels of knowledge.
The article evaluates the utility of the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) when applied to older adults. Using a Rasch model approach, the study analyzes data from older adults to determine the dimensionality, fit, and effectiveness of the PGSI in measuring gambling severity among this demographic. The findings reveal the strengths and limitations of the PGSI in differentiating problem gambling severity for older populations, while also highlighting areas for potential improvement to increase its accuracy and reliability.
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