ICRG Conference on Gambling and Addiction
Dates to Be Announced Soon
The 21st Conference on Gambling and Addiction will feature a series of webinars. Attendance is free but advance registration is required. Watch for future announcements of the registration links. Until then save the dates. Attendees will earn 1.5 continuing education hours.
This year’s ICRG conference poster session will be fully virtual on Twitter, Oct. 15-22, 2020, Everyone is welcome to access new and exciting research on gambling and gambling disorder: Oct. 15-22, 2020. Click HERE for more information.
Video recordings of all webinars will be uploaded HERE post webinar.
Please note continuing education hours are only available to participants of the live webinar and not available for viewing recorded sessions.
JULY 14, 2020 2-3:30 p.m. Eastern
New Strategies in Helping Families and Loved Ones Addressing Problem Gambling
Speaker: Lori Rugle, PhD
Families and loved ones living with the issue of problem gambling experience a broad range painful harms including financial, emotional, social and spiritual and are often left feeling shame and isolation. They often do not know where to turn for help, support and understanding. This webinar will focus on how the evidence-based treatments such as Community Reinforcement and Family Treatment and other behavioral family counseling strategies combine compassion-based, motivational and behavioral perspectives can be applied to those living with gambling disorder.
Learning objectives:
- Participants will be able to utilize strategies to help family members reinforce recovery oriented behaviors in loved ones struggling with gambling disorder.
- Participants will be able to identify how traditional language of co-dependency may contribute to stigma of families and couples living with addictive disorders.
- Participants will learn strategies to assist family members in developing self-compassion and self-care.
Culturally Adapting Evidence-based Treatments in Partnership with American Indians
Speaker: Kamilla Venner, PhD (Ahtna Athabascan)
University of New Mexico
Many Indigenous communities are concerned with substance use (SU) problems and eager to advance effective solutions for their prevention and treatment. Yet these communities also are concerned about the perpetuation of colonizing, disorder-focused, stigmatizing approaches to mental health, and social narratives related to SU problems. Foundational principles of community psychology-ecological perspectives, empowerment, sociocultural competence, community inclusion and partnership, and reflective practice-provide useful frameworks for informing ethical community-based research pertaining to SU problems conducted with and by Indigenous communities.
Dr. Venner will report on her research in this area.
Dr. Kamilla Venner is an assistant professor in the department of psychology at the University of New Mexico and research assistant professor at CASAA. Her research focuses on improving the alarming substance use related health disparities for American Indian/Alaska Natives while balancing the focus on cultural strengths, high rates of abstinence from substances, and stories of resolving alcohol problems. One avenue to improved outcomes has been to culturally adapt evidence-based treatments in partnership with AIAN communities. Cultural adaptations may include exploring cultural identity, spirituality, community, historical trauma, and traditional healing, as appropriate.
Learning Objectives:
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Participants will know the important balance of fidelity to the evidence-based treatment while culturally tailoring it to be more acceptable, appropriate, and culture positive.
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Participants will be able to name at least two of the six reasons to culturally tailor evidence-based treatments
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Participants will be able to identity at least two ways to culturally tailor evidence-based treatment for American Indian/Alaska Native people.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 2 - 3:30 p.m. Eastern
Redefining Responsible Gaming for Today's Gaming Industry
Panel:
- Cait DeBaun, Senior Director, Strategic Communications and Responsibility, American Gaming Association
- David Forman, Senior Director, Research, American Gaming Association
- Brianne Doura-Schawohl, Vice President, U.S. Policy and Strategic Development, EPIC Risk Management
- Alan Feldman, UNLV International Gaming Institute; Chairman, International Center for Responsible Gaming
- Kahil Philander, PhD, Assistant Professor Washington State University, School of Hospitality Business Management
Earlier this year, the Responsible Gambling Collaborative released new principles to define a path forward for responsible and problem gambling efforts in the United States. This webinar, during Responsible Gaming Education Week, will define the six effectiveness principles, provided analysis of state-level RG and PG funding, and include a panel discussion on the future of responsible gambling in the U.S.
Learning objectives:
- Define responsible gambling.
- Identify one finding from the study of where state-level responsible gambling and problem gambling funding goes.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 2 - 3:30 p.m. Eastern
Recognizing Stigma Embedded in Diagnostic Criteria for Substance Use Disorders
Speaker: Robert Krueger, PhD, University of Minnesota
Approaches to conceptualizing and classifying mental disorders are evolving in the wake of evidence for the limitations of traditional approaches. In this talk, I will review developments in this area of research, with an eye toward emerging approaches that have both scientific and clinical utility. I will also describe how an empirical approach can enhance our understanding of problems related to gambling.
Learning objectives:
- Describe key developments in empirical classification of psychopathology
- Explain the basis for the empirical approach to psychopathology classification
- Identify major spectrum concepts connected with an empirical approach to psychopathology, with a particular focus on gambling disorder
OCTOBER 21, 2020
Addictive Behavior Relapse: Challenges in the Treatment of Gambling Disorder and How Mindfulness May be Helpful in Breaking the Relapse Cycle
Katie Wittkiewitz, PhD, University of New Mexico
Learning objectives:
- Explain the theoretical and empirical foundations underlying a mindfulness-based approah to the treatment of gamb
- Describe the key practices, adapttations, and challenges of mindfulness practices in real world settings
- Learn the 3 minute breathing space as a specific skill that can be used with gambling clients and basic principles for conducting mindfulness-based interventions
