Gambling Problems in Youth [recurso electrónico] : Theoretical and Applied Perspectives / edited by Jeffrey L. Derevensky, Rina Gupta.

Prevalence -- Youth Gambling in North America -- Youth Gambling Problems: Correlates and Risk Factors -- Demographic, Psychosocial, and Behavioral Factors Associated with Youth Gambling and Problem Gambling -- Gambling, Depression, and Suicidality in Adolescents -- Gambling and Drug Abuse in Adolescence -- Adolescent Problem Gambling -- New Technologies -- Youth and Technology -- Measurement Issues -- The Measurement of Youth Gambling Problems -- Treatment -- A Dynamic Process Perspective on Gambling Problems -- A Treatment Approach for Adolescents with Gambling Problems -- A Pathways Approach to Treating Youth Gamblers -- Prevention -- Prevention Efforts Toward Reducing Gambling Problems -- Social Policy Issues -- Youth Gambling Problems.

The field of gambling studies has experienced tremendous growth in recent years. More research in this field has been published in the last fifteen years than in the previous hundred. With government-sponsored or -regulated forms of gambling proliferating worldwide an entire generation is being raised in an environment of easy access to many forms of gambling. The need for better understanding of the problems associated with gambling among young people is acute and growing. Gambling Problems in Youth addresses that need by providing empirically based insights into a wide range of issues from leading researchers. Contributions to this volume address a number of key issues, including: - correlates of youth gambling, including depression and substance abuse - neurodevelopmental issues - measurement, assessment, treatment, and prevention Finally, by taking on larger questions of social policy, Gambling Problems in Youth moves beyond the traditional academic and clinical boundaries to place its subject in a discussion of informed and effective legislation. Gambling Problems in Youth will be invaluable to researchers, students, clinicians, school psychologists, and policy makers interested in the confluence of gambling and adolescents.