Youth gambling
Subtitle: the hidden addiction
By: edited by Jeffrey Derevensky, Daniel T.L. Shek, and Joav Merrick
Series: Health, medicine and human development; Health, medicine, and human development
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9783110255201
Subjects: Psychology; Adolescent psychology; Youth; Compulsive gambling; Therapy; Treatment; Adolescent; Gambling; Teenage gamblers; Risk Factors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Adolescent gambling; title: Understanding the etiology of youth gambling problems; title: An international perspective on youth gambling prevalence studies; title: Youth problem gambling : our current knowledge of risk and protective factors; title: Defining and assessing binge gambling; title: Positive youth development and intention to gamble; title: Relationship between positive youth development and intention to gamble among Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong; title: Remote gambling in adolescence; title: A critical review of adolescent problem gambling assessment instruments; title: Treatment of adolescent gambling problems : more art than science?; title: Seeking help online : a new approach for youth-specific gambling interventions; title: Adolescent problem gambling : pharmacological treatment options; title: Youth gambling prevention initiatives : a decade of research; title: Prevention of gambling problems in adolescents : the role of problem gambling assessment instruments and positive youth development programs; title: About the editors; title: 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); title: About the Department of Applied Social Sciences, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University; title: About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel.