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The Review on CBT and a Multimodal Treatment Model for Problem Gamblers

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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is currently the most accepted and widely used psychological treatment modality for gambling disorders. Conceptually, CBT consists of two components: behavioral therapy and cognitive formulations. In the behavioral perspective, the therapist applies learning principles in changing the gambler’s behavioral patterns. Commonly employed behavioral techniques include punishing gambling behavior by use of aversive stimulus, substitution of gambling behaviors with pleasant and healthy behaviors, financial planning and limit-setting, stimulus control, imaginal desensitization, in vivo-exposure and response prevention and relapse prevention training, and teaching coping skills and assertiveness and refusal skills for gambling. In the cognitive part of the therapy, CBT aims at helping the client identify his/her distorted thinking and cognitive biases. Treatment techniques include problem-solving, cognitive restructuring techniques that intends to modify the distorted thinking and biases.

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    Chi Chuen Chan

  2. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong

    William Wai Lim Li

  3. Independent Scholar, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Eugene Chung Ip Leung

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Chan, C.C., Li, W.W.L., Leung, E.C.I. (2016). The Review on CBT and a Multimodal Treatment Model for Problem Gamblers. In: Problem Gambling in Hong Kong and Macao. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1068-2_6

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