Youth Gambling: The Hidden Addiction

by Jeffrey L. Derevensky (Editor), Daniel T. L. Shek (Editor), Joav Merrick (Editor)

Overview

Youth gambling represents a potentially serious public policy and health issue. Nevertheless, the rise in youth gambling issues and problems in the global context is not matched with a parallel increase in research on adolescent gambling. As such, there is an urgent need to conduct more studies on adolescent gambling behaviour. Recently significant advances in the knowledge of the risk factors associated with adolescent problems has emerged. This book addresses issues related to prevalence, assessment, prevention and treatment of youth gambling problems as well as concerns related to technological changes associated with youth problem gambling.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110255690
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	10/27/2011
Series:	Health, Medicine and Human Development Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	265
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jeffrey L. Derevensky, McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Daniel T. L. Shek, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hunghom, China; Joav Merrick, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Health Services, Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem, Israel.