Total CE Credit Hours: 1.5
Course Info URL: https://www.addictioncounselorce.com/courses/103115
About the Course:
This course examines the role of race ethnicity and income as risk factors in problem gambling and Gambling Disorder (GD). The first article is an epidemiological sample of adults in New Jersey discussing race in Non-PG, low risk PG, moderate risk , high risk PG using variables of education, employment status, substance use, mental health, gambling frequency, preferred gambling venue, age genders, friends and family who gamble, health status in the last year, behavioral addictions, and gambling venue. The second article addresses the differences in risk factors by race/ethnicity and includes: demographics (age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, employment, annual household income), veteran status, marital status, homelessness, smoking, substance abuse, alcohol abuse, marijuana use, and lifetime gambling disorder diagnosis.
This course is based on the reading-based online article, Gambling and Minorities created by Kyle R. Caler, PhD, MSW, Jose Ricardo Vargas Garcia, M.A., and Brendan Day, MD in 2017.
Publication Date:
42985 Sep 2017
Course Material Authors
Course Creator
Recommended For:
Counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists and social workers. This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.
Course Objectives:
Describe the need to determine the roles race, ethnicity, and other variable play in Gambling Disorder.
Identify risk factors among the variables.
Summarize the role race, ethnicity, and income play and interact with each other.
Course Material - Problem gambling among ethnic minorities: results from an epidemiological study
References begin on page 12.
Both articles are needed for this course.
Course Material - Problem gambling among ethnic minorities: results from an epidemiological study
Course Material - Evaluating for Differences by Race/Ethnicity in the Association Between Income and Gambling Disorder
References begin on page 1104.
Both articles are needed for this course.
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