By Christophe Druine (auth.), Mark Griffiths, Tobias Hayer, Gerhard Meyer (eds.)
ISBN-10: 0387094857
ISBN-13: 9780387094854
Problem playing in Europe
Challenges, Prevention, and Interventions
Edited through Gerhard Meyer, collage of Bremen, Germany
Tobias Hayer, collage of Bremen, Germany
Mark Griffiths, Nottingham Trent collage, uk
As a rest job, playing dates again to precedent days. extra lately, the surge in avenues for gambling—casinos, activities making a bet, lotteries, and distant media (e.g.,Internet, cellular phone, interactive tv) between them—finds turning out to be numbers of individuals wasting keep watch over over their playing behaviour, frequently at nice own and monetary rate. Problem playing in Europe is the 1st booklet to supply a strong overseas wisdom base compiled by means of an interdisciplinary panel of researchers in playing behaviour.
Reports from 21 nations all through Western, japanese, Northern, and Southern Europe display extensive adaptations in different types of wagering actions, participation through populations, social and legal results with regards to pathological playing, the level to which governments recognize the matter, and efforts to manage it (often with the involvement of the gaming industries). for every state, famous specialists discuss:
- Current laws regulating gambling.
- Forms of playing and their addictive potential.
- Participation premiums and demographics.
- Prevalence of pathological gambling.
- National regulations to deal with challenge gambling.
- Prevention concepts and therapy methods.
Problem playing in Europe brings perception and readability to a common and intricate phenomenon, and should be of substantial curiosity to all events operating to lessen their unwanted effects: social technological know-how researchers in addictions, playing behaviour, and public well-being; medical, social, and overall healthiness psychologists and psychiatrists; remedy practitioners; the gaming undefined; regulators; and coverage makers.
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In 1998, a counselling service for pathological gamblers was set up within the psychiatric division of the university hospital of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. It was named “La Clinique du Jeu Pathologique Dostoievski”. It offers both ambulant and treatment to persons who are hospitalised. The treatment is a mix of motivational, behaviour–therapeutic, cognitive, psychoanalytical, and family–therapeutic insights. Related problems such as anxiety or depression can often be treated with medication.
7%), and television phone-in quizzes (12%). 9% engaged in sports betting through newspaper shops or betting offices. Furthermore, some socio-demographic variations in gambling preferences were observed. Men did not gamble more frequently than women, but they were more likely than women to gamble on gambling machines, tables in casinos, bingo machines in pubs, sports betting, horse race betting, and to play cards or dice for money. Women were more likely than men to gamble on scratch tickets and television phone-in quizzes.
In 1948, the law on sports betting was G. Meyer et al. 1007/978-0-387-09486-1_2, © Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2009 17 18 introduced, and with that the establishment of Dansk Tipstjeneste A/S, now Danske Spil A/S (Danish Games; Skatteministeriet 2001). Dansk Tipstjeneste was incorporated as a private limited company between the Danish state owning 80% of the shares and the two largest sports organizations in Denmark, Danmarks Idræts Forbund (DIF; Danish Sports Federation) and Danske Gymnastik og idrætsforeninger (DGI; Danish Gymnastics and Sports Association), each owning 10% of the shares.
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