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Helping Professionals

Setting Up a Problem Gambling Program

Long-Term or Short-Term Treatment Programs

Long-term or short-term treatment programs: rationale, characteristics, short-term programs: rationale, characteristics.

Residential or Day Treatment Program?

Residential programs: rationale, key indicators for choosing inpatient treatment, day treatment programs: rationale.

Abstinence or Harm Reduction?

Abstinence: rationale, harm reduction/moderation/controlled gambling, criteria for choosing a harm reduction approach, controlled gambling.

Insight-Oriented or Solution-Focused?

Solution-focused approaches: some examples

Individual Counselling or Group Counselling

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?

Telephone or Face-to-face Counselling?

The issue of anonymity, advantages of telephone counselling, disadvantages of telephone counselling, references.


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