Change Your Gambling, Change Your Life

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Strategies for Managing Your Gambling and Improving Your Finances, Relationships, and Health

By Howard Shaffer

Series: Harvard Health Publications

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Change Your Gambling, Change Your Life by Howard Shaffer, PhD, is a research-based guide tackling the destructive urge to gamble. The book explores how gambling problems often stem from underlying issues including anxiety, mood fluctuations, impulse control difficulties, and substance abuse. It offers self-tests to help readers assess the severity of their gambling issues and understand their psychological and social context. The book provides practical strategies and simple tools designed to break the gambling cycle and build healthier habits.
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This book is ideal for individuals seeking to control or stop gambling behaviours, as well as those interested in understanding the psychological factors behind gambling addiction. It would also benefit healthcare professionals and counsellors working with gambling-related issues.

Explains how gambling problems are related to other underlying issues: such as anxiety, mood fluctuation, difficulty with impulse control, and substance abuse problems. This title includes a toolbox of resources for those who want to stop the vicious cycle of gambling. It provides techniques for controlling the urge to gamble.

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A research-based guide to controlling the destructive urge to gamble

From Howard Shaffer, PhD, a noted expert on gambling addiction, and Harvard Health Publications comes Change Your Gambling, Change Your Life, a landmark new book which explains how gambling problems are related to other underlying issues: such as anxiety, mood fluctuation, difficulty with impulse control, and substance abuse problems. Dr. Shaffer offers a series of self-tests to help evaluate the degree of the gambling problem and analyse the psychological and social context of the behaviour, with specific strategies and approaches for ending the problems with simple tools that anyone can use.

Explains why many people have a problem controlling their urge to gamble and how that can be corrected
Includes a toolbox of resources for anyone who wants to stop the vicious cycle of gambling
Offers advice for avoiding slips and preventing backslides and how to deal with the consequences

With candour and expert advice, Change Your Gambling, Change Your Life provides proven techniques for controlling the urge to gamble.

Series: Harvard Health Publications

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Change Your Gambling, Change Your Life

By Howard Shaffer

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ISBN: 9780470933077

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 March 2012

Country: United States

Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 313g

Pages: 256

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Health & Wellness Howard Shaffer Non-Fiction Self-Help & Personal Development Series: Harvard Health Publications

About the Author

Howard Shaffer, PhD, a pioneer in the field of gambling addiction, is an associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and the director of the Division on Addiction at the Cambridge Health Alliance. He has an active private practice and consults internationally to a variety of organizations in business, education, human services, law, and government. Ryan Martin, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Education and Promotion at East Carolina University. John Kleschinsky, MPH, spent three years at the Cambridge Health Alliance's Division on Addiction and is currently pursuing a DrPH in social and behavioral sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health. Liz Neporent, MA, is an award-winning health and medical journalist who has written fifteen best-selling health titles.

Change Your Gambling, Change Your Life