Gambling disorder in adolescents: prevalence, new developments, and treatment challenges

• Main Author: Floros GD
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dove Medical Press 2018-03-01
• Series: Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics
• Subjects: adolescence; gambling disorder
• Online Access: https://www.dovepress.com/gambling-disorder-in-adolescents-prevalence-new-developments-and-treat-peer-reviewed-article-AHMT

Georgios D Floros 2nd Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Abstract: Research on adolescence gambling over the past twenty years has revealed significant incidence and prevalence rates and highlighted the possible negative effects on an adolescent’s well-being. Several risk and protective factors have also been identified. Over the course of the past few years, technological advances have heralded the advent of new avenues for gambling as well as new opportunities to gamble without any direct monetary exchange. This review article examines those established trends as well as the new issues that we are faced with, in order to accurately portray the current challenges in research, prevention, and treatment. Keywords: adolescence, gambling disorder