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Gambling and Gaming Addictions in Adolescence

ISBN: 978-1-854-33348-3

July 2002

Wiley-Blackwell

64 pages

Description
The guide gives the practitioner an understanding of why children and adolescents may come to play fruit machines/video games to excess and includes knowledge about the risk factors involved in this. It includes practical and common-sense interventions that may be beneficial for such children and adolescents and also includes practical advice to give to parents facing their child’s behavioural addiction.
About the Author
Mark Griffiths is lecturer in Psychology at Nottingham Trent University.