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Behind the 8-Ball: A Guide for Families of Gamblers | 
 enlarge | Authors: Linda Berman, Mary-ellen Siegal
Publisher: iUniverse.com
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 81845
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 1583480463
Dewey Decimal Number: 362
EAN: 9781583480465
ASIN: 1583480463
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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Condition: A nice copy. Gently used. All pages and cover clear except for a few library markings. Binding solid and tight. No creases.
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"This book is essential for gamblers, families, friends, and professionals who need to know more about the personalities of gamblers...It is a precise, updated, and accurate look at how gambling affects families."-Timothy W. Fong, MD, co-director, UCLA Gambling Studies Program "This book remains as important today as ever and has remained the standard reference for family members of gamblers."-Keith Whyte, executive director, National Council on Problem Gambling Is someone you care about gambling your life away? You don't have to be a gambler yourself to suffer from the often disastrous effects of excessive gambling. Behind the 8-Ball is the must-have guide to reclaiming your financial, legal, and emotional freedom. Spouses, parents, siblings, children, friends, and coworkers of the gambler will learn how to: - Understand why some people lose control of their gambling
- Recognize the compulsive gambler and realistically assess the financial and emotional damage he or she is causing you and others
- Accept that you can't control someone else's gambling
- Encourage the gambler to seek help
- Recover from being involved with a gambler
For anyone who is or has ever been involved with someone who gambles too much, this supportive, informative volume delivers all the tools and motivation you need to rebuild your life.
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 helpful and important book for spouses of pathological gamblers August 5, 2007
I am Clinical Psychologist who treats gambling addiction. This book is an important tool for spouses of gamblers who are starting to come to terms with the problem. As one prior reviewer noted, it does not provide false hope for families who are being destroyed by this difficult addiction. What it does to is help a spouse wake up to the reality that if the gambler does not stop their lives will be ruined as well as that of the gambler. Pathological gambling is a very treatable issue and most people that I have worked with get better, but it certainly is not a perfect line from wanting to get better to never gambling again. This book will help prepare the spouse (it is more for a spouse than a parent or sibling) for the worse-case out come. Strongly recommended.... Eric Geffner, Ph.D.
www.stopgamblingnow.com
Understanding Addictive Gambling April 8, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent resource for an ever-growing problem in our society. It very effectively explores the origins, family responses, treatment, and prognosis for this form of addiction. It will help the spouse and family of an addicted gambler begin to understand and to get a grip on an addiction that has destoyed many families in recent times. It will give an understanding you may not find outside of a support group.
 Behind the 8-Ball: A Recovery Guide for the Families of Gamblers March 10, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm struggling to get through this book. If you are looking for something positive to get yourself through a difficult time, this book is not for you. It does tell you what to look for and how to protect yourself, but does not instill any hope for a future for the compulsive gambler, whether you are staying with them or not. Again, if you are looking for hope, this book isn't it. All it does is leave you depressed.
From a therapist's perspective January 15, 2003
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent resource for family members in a variety of situations. Whether they are just starting to learn about gambling as an addiction and need to know what signs and symptoms to watch for or whether they are well beyond that stage and needing to know what to do with an early or later recovery family member this book provides a clear, easy to read resource that is a good adjuct to counselling, group work or even as a stand alone resource.
Extremely thorough and helpful for families of gamblers June 13, 2000
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
I thought this book is one of the most thorough and helpful books regarding dealing with gambling addiction. It enlightens on how you can protect yourself from the throes of gambling. It provides information that will help you understand and deal with the illness. Excellent book!
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