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CBT for gambling-related harms and behavioural addictions

Presented by Dr Venetia Leonidaki

About the event

This Masterclass webinar will be hosted on Zoom. The webinar will be recorded and will be made available for 30 days after the event to delegates who have registered. You can choose to attend on the day, watch later or both.

A certificate of attendance will be issued for 2.5 hours CPD (live attendance only).

Registration closes - Midday Tuesday 7 January.

Synopsis
Over two million people suffer, or are at risk of suffering, gambling-related harms in the UK (Public Health England, 2021). Gambling-related harms include a higher risk of suicide, mental health difficulties, financial loss, debts, and harm caused to significant others. As the need for a public health approach to gambling harms is increasingly recognised (Goyder, Blank, Baxter, & van Schalkwyk, 2020), the NHS now funds treatment for those experiencing such harms. 15 specialist NHS services are now available across England.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is the treatment with the largest evidence base for gambling harms and the frontline treatment in the NHS. This workshop offers an overview of the CBT model employed at the National Gambling Clinic and recently published in a self-help book (Bowden-Jones & Leonidaki, 2022). CBT practitioners who are interested in gaining skills in managing gambling-related harms may especially benefit from this workshop.

The increased recognition of gambling-related harms has attracted attention to the evolving field of behavioural addiction. There is currently the potential for the development of new evidence-based treatments for other behavioural addictions. The ideas and techniques found in CBT for gambling could well inform such developments. Thus, participants may find the treatment principles presented here relevant to dealing with other behavioural addictions too.

The training material covers relevant issues, including the well-recognised gender bias in the field of gambling, and barriers to treatment for ethnic minority backgrounds. A case study touches how cultural context has influenced their gambling behaviour.

This webinar is designed for qualified CBT practitioners, but its content may also be relevant to other psychological professionals. Additionally, wellbeing practitioners and psychology graduates may also find the webinar helpful. Please note that a basic understanding of the CBT model and basic CBT competencies is necessary for participants to fully benefit from the training.

Learning Outcomes

Assess gambling-related harms, diagnose a gambling disorder, and make appropriate referrals when necessary
Formulate about cognitive behavioural and other mechanisms underpinning gambling disorder and other addictive behaviour
Use outcome measures to evaluate the treatment of gambling-related harms
Employ a variety of CBT strategies to treat gambling-related harms, including stimulus control, monitoring, reward schedule, behavioural activation, cognitive techniques, and relapse prevention
Learn about developments in the field of behavioural addictions and the role of CBT principles in their treatment of other addictive behaviours

About the presenter(s)

Dr Venetia Leonidaki is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the National Centre for Behavioural Addictions, which is part of Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.

Dr Leonidaki is a BABCP Accredited Supervisor. She acts as a visiting lecturer teaching about CBT, gambling, and behavioural addiction to training programs across the country. She has also delivered webinars and workshops on the above topics to psychological professionals via the British Psychological Society and the National Centre for Behavioural Addiction. She is a co-editor of “Breaking Free: How to Stop Gambling”, a self-help CBT book for those affected by gambling harms.

Dr Leonidaki has published peer-reviewed articles and chapters on addiction and psychotherapy research and presented at various conferences, including the BABCP conference last year.

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