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CE’s | Time (ET) | Track | Session Details |
| 0.25 | 12:00 PM – 12:15 PM WELCOME | GEN | Introduction & Welcome |
| 1.0 | 12:15 PM – 1:15 PMSESSION 1 | PX | Gambling Through a Public Health Lens: A Rapid Evidence Assessment |
| 0.5 | 1:15 PM – 1:45 PMSESSION 2 | RG | Good Intentions, Poor Results: Responsible Gambling Strategies among Individuals who Self-Exclude |
| N/A | 1:45 PM – 2:00 PMBREAK | ALL | Break |
| 1.0 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PMSESSION 3 | RG | Language and Responsible Gambling |
| 0.5 | 3:00 PM – 3:30 PMSESSION 4 | RX | Exploring the Links Between Gambling and Problem Debt |
| 0.5 | 3:30 PM – 4:00 PMSESSION 5 | RG | Payment Data: Its Potential and Applications for Responsible Gambling |
| 0.25 | 4:00 PM – 4:15 PMCLOSING | GEN | Day One Closing |
CE’s | Time (ET) | Track | Session Details |
| 0.25 | 12:00 PM – 12:15 PMÂWELCOME | GEN | Day Two Introduction & Welcome |
| 1.0 | 12:15 PM – 1:15 PMSESSION 6 | TX | Gambling Disorder in England: The Impact of the 2023 Gambling ReviewHenrietta Bowden-Jones, PhD |
| 0.5 | 1:15 PM – 1:45 PMSESSION 7 | RX | Peer Support Groups for Women Experiencing Gambling Harms |
| N/A | 1:45 PM – 2:00 PMBREAK | ALL | Break |
| 0.5 | 2:00 PM – 2:30 PMSESSION 8 | TX | Treating Gambling as a Co-Occurring Disorder |
| 0.5 | 2:30 PM – 3:00 PMSESSION 9 | TX | Emotion Regulation and Couple Adjustment in Treatment Outcomes |
| 1.0 | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PMSESSION 10 | PX | Lessons Learned to Move Gambling Policy Into the National SpotlightJamey Lister, PhD; Regina LaBelle, JD; Lia Nower, PhD, JD, ICGC-II, BACC |
| 0.25 | 4:00 PM – 4:15 PMCLOSING | GEN | Closing |
Emotion dysregulation is a key factor in problem gambling development. To date, ways to enhance emotion regulation have been largely at the individual level to promote emotion appraisal and awareness. Congruence Couple Therapy (CCT), a new integrative treatment model, showed in a randomized trial to have a relative advantage over individual treatment for multiple outcomes in reducing addictive and mental health symptoms and life stress and improving emotion regulation associated with couple adjustment. This session presents the framework of CCT for improving emotion regulation and couple adjustment and makes treatment recommendations.
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A recent UK government review concluded, “Gambling-related debt is an important driver of harm and should be a focus for future policy.” Our mixed-methods research provides new evidence about the links between gambling and problem debt, how people experience gambling-related debt; and how debt advice can help people address gambling-related debt. It finds that (1) the intersection between harmful gambling and access to consumer debt can lead to extremely complex situations; (2) if harmful gambling is not addressed, then any debt resolution is likely to be temporary; and (3) affected others are the unseen casualties of gambling-related debt.
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Henrietta Bowden-Jones, PhD
This presentation will examine the changes brought by the 2023 Gambling Review after the three-year consultation period. The content of the Review will be discussed in the context of gambling harms, prevention, research priorities, and treatment.
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A public health approach towards gambling requires a multi-faceted approach to eliminate harm. This talk presents the results of a recent rapid evidence assessment (REA) to explore how a public health lens can be applied to gambling. The REA synthesizes research from the gambling, tobacco, alcohol and food sectors to evaluate how a holistic public health approach could reduce gambling harms. This session will present a resultant umbrella framework, highlighting how intervention strategies relating to prevention, legislation, and targeted support – informed by education, screening and environment themes – could reduce gambling-related harm for populations, communities, families, and individuals alike.
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Individual responsible gambling (RG) tools, such as limit setting and tracking wins/losses, are used to minimize the potential negative consequences of gambling. However, gamblers may need to be made aware of or use such tools. This session will discuss awareness and use of RG strategies among a sample of self-excluded gamblers in British Columbia. While many attempted to use RG strategies, they often struggled to follow through with them. These findings have implications for RG prevention and education. They suggest a need for greater awareness among gamblers about the importance of committing to RG strategies and support to implement them successfully.
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Language is the basis for much of our communication with others. However, the use of language can, at times, be misleading or lead to errors in our understanding. This session will draw together converging evidence from studies on the relationship of implicit memory associations with gambling and problem gambling, qualitative research assessing gambling labeling, and lessons learned by conducting Dual Frame Random Digit Dial research. The presenters will discuss the unique findings from each study and how these findings may be applied to responsible gambling.
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Jamey Lister, PhD; Regina LaBelle, JD; Lia Nower, PhD, JD, ICGC-II, BACC
Gambling is a common activity in the United States, and like substance use, if it develops into a disorder, it can lead to financial, psychological, and social harms. However, unlike substance use disorders, federal policies and programs regulating harms, expanding the trained workforce, and supporting research, are lacking for gambling. Similarly, US approaches lag behind international approaches. These issues, coupled with increasing opportunities to gamble in US states, demand the need to identify and implement gambling-specific approaches. This session will describe lessons learned from the substance use field and their application to advocacy efforts to move gambling into the national spotlight.
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Kasra Ghaharian, PhD; Alan Feldman
Machine learning-based RG products have been developed to help operators stay abreast of regulatory demands and proactively identify at-risk customers. These have largely focused on customers’ betting-related data, such as the amount and pattern of betting. Far less attention has been paid to payment-related data such as the deposit and withdrawal of funds, which is becoming increasingly available due to gambling payments modernization. This presentation will review the gambling payments landscape, explain how payment data could support harm minimization, and present results from our machine learning-based analyses conducted with payment transaction records.
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Peer support has grown rapidly over recent decades, but little research has been done within the field of gambling harms. Given the widely acknowledged reluctance of women to seek support for gambling harms, women-only groups are seen as a way to change this. This qualitative research, funded by Microgaming, explores the gambling peer support groups currently offered to women in the UK. It explores the strengths and weaknesses of women who attend the groups and the organizations that provide them. The presentation will draw out valuable lessons to support US providers.
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Co-occurring is the rule, not the exception, with problem and disordered gambling. This workshop will give an overview of the presenter’s lived experience working with clients who have gambling problems and substance use disorders, including opioids, alcohol, benzodiazepines, and cocaine. Treatment for men and women with gambling problems and trauma will also be discussed. Effective strategies will be highlighted, as well as less successful techniques.
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