Professionals

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Problem Gambling Treatment

The state of Minnesota approves various types of treatment providers to work with the state’s problem gambling program. See the list of providers here.

Gambling Treatment: The Significant Others Perspective

Affected Others Concerns: Round table report

South Oaks Gambling Screen:  This tool is a comprehensive screening document used to work with problem gamblers. 

Gambling Away the Golden Years Educational Kit. Produced by the North American Training Institute.

Alberta Gaming Institute Research

Refugee Services Toolkit: The Refugee Services Toolkit (RST) is a web-based tool designed to help service system providers understand the experience of refugee children and families, identify the needs associated with their mental health, and ensure that they are connected with the most appropriate available interventions. This toolkit is designed to

1. Identify risk factors
2. Recommend interventions
3. Provide resources

To access the toolkit, please visit: http://www.chcrtr.org/toolkit/

Counselor Training and Education

Training is available for problem gambling counselors from a variety of resources. This is a partial list of the programs currently available.

Research

Significant research has been conducted in the field of problem gambling, including treatment effectiveness measures, neurobiology, trends and profiles. Check out the National Council on Problem Gambling website. In addition, here are the results of a Google search on the topic of Problem Gambling Research.

Medication side effect: compulsive gambling.

Gambling Among Minnesota Public School Students (Study) PDF ( Presentation) (PDF) (both current site)

Southeast Asian Perspectives on Gambling

Latino Perspectives on Gambling

Public Policy

Visit the National Council on Problem Gambling website to learn about the current advocacy work in Washington to have problem gambling included in the SAMHSA agency and to provide dedicated funding to this issue.

Minnesota Fast Facts on Problem Gambling.