The treatment of gambling disorder: A comprehensive (socio-psychological-neurobiological) explanation and therapy model?

Abstract: Summary In this theoretical work, we present the clinical picture of pathological gambling, an etiological explanatory model and resulting therapeutic implications. Social, psychological and physiological factors are included. The "addiction model" also distinguishes between factors relevant to the onset and continuation of disturbed gambling behavior. Multifactorial causes must be postulated in the "entry phase" of the behavior. During the actual "addiction phase", the self-perpetuating disturbed gambling behavior is characterized by a strong mental dependence and a nearly autonomously triggered addiction behavior (loss of control) associated with structural changes in the deeper brain areas of the „reward system“. There is an "irresistible urge" to continue gambling, upheld not least by a dominance of gambling behavior in the reward system and the accompanying dysfunction of this area of the brain. At the beginning of therapy, the focus lies on the addictive behavior itself. The

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 17 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Erstveröffentlichung ; nicht begutachtet

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Medizin, Gesundheit

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2019
• Creator: Bachmann, Meinolf ; Bachmann, Andrada Andrea ; Frensemeier, Svenja

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-61824-8
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 25.03.2025, 1:50 PM CET