TITLE: UNDERSTANDING PROBLEM GAMBLERS
AUTHOR: Bellringer, Paul
ISBN hb: 1 85343 462 0
ISBN pb: 1 85343 463 9
PAGES: 220
LIST PRICE hb: £40.00 ($55.00)
LIST PRICE pb: £15.95 ($25.00)
PUB DATE: October 1999


 
 
 
DESCRIPTION: Gambling in recent years has become a major main stream leisure activity. For most of us this enjoyable and exciting entertainment remains an occasional social activity, but for an increasing minority it becomes a destructive dependency. This book is essential reading for anyone involved with a problem gambler either as a client, partner, or family member. It will be of interest of therapists practitioners who are in contact with problem gamblers and their families, regulators and those working in the gambling industry.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:  Paul Bellringer has been working with problem gamblers for nearly twenty years and is regarded as a leading authority on the subject of the social impact of gambling. He is presently a director of GamCare, a national centre for information and advice which developed from the UK Forum on Young People and Gambling which he established in 1990.
 
"Understanding Problem Gamblers goes through the signs, the symptoms and the suggested solutions when the dependency takes over. Bellringer's easy-to-read style and logical content is addressed principally at practitioners who may be exposed to the need to help problem gamblers. Friends and family are not excluded; nor are gamblers themselves". 

Howard Wright, The Racing Post