Long-term or short-term treatment programs: rationale, characteristics, short-term programs: rationale, characteristics.
Residential programs: rationale, key indicators for choosing inpatient treatment, day treatment programs: rationale.
Abstinence: rationale, harm reduction/moderation/controlled gambling, criteria for choosing a harm reduction approach, controlled gambling.
Solution-focused approaches: some examples
Group counselling, one-on-one, closed or open Groups, key decision criteria, groups with/without a topic and its impact on task/process, should participants with different goals be in the same group? Should the client’s family be involved?
The issue of anonymity, advantages of telephone counselling, disadvantages of telephone counselling, references.
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