Webinars

The ICRG Webinar Series, created in conjunction with Global Gaming Expo (G2E), provides year-round educational opportunities designed to help individuals better understand and address critical issues related to gambling disorder and responsible gaming. 

 

Wednesday, May 13, 2020 

2-3:30 p.m. EDT

 

What People Do in 12-Step Programs that 

Mobilizes Change and Why 

 

Presenter: J. Scott Tonigan, PhD 

 

Dr. Tonigan will explore the active ingredients and mechanisms of change in 12-step programs, with an emphasis on what may translate to Gamblers Anonymous. 

 

Learning Objectives: 

  • Identify one ingredient in 12-Step programs that facilitates behavioral change 
  • Identify possible implications for better understanding Gamblers Anonymous

 

J. Scott Tonigan, PhD, is Research Professor in the department of psychology at the University of New Mexico. His research interests include behavior change in mutual-help programs, assessment instruments, and empirically supported treatments. 

 

The webinar is free but advance registration is required:  https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8915071580962673676 

 

Attendees will earn 1.5 continuing education hours.  The ICRG is approved by NBCC and NAADAC.  Also, the ICRG is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  The ICRG maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

 

 

 

Thursday, June 18, 2020 

2-3:30 p.m. EDT

 

Patterns of Daily Fantasy Sports Play: Implications for the Emerging US Sports Betting Market 

 

Presenter: Sarah E. Nelson, PhD 

 

 

Recent Federal legislative changes in the United States have led some states to liberalize gambling regulations to allow sports betting, with many more on the way. In response to these changes in the United States gambling landscape, researchers, policymakers and the general public have expressed concerns that this expansion could have adverse effects on public health. Though we have very little evidence about sports betting in the United States, primarily because of the newness of the market, there are lessons we can learn about what we might expect in this emerging market from the case of daily fantasy sports (DFS). DFS subscriber behavior can provide valuable information about population patterns, potential risk factors, and exposure and adaptation trends we might expect to see as sports betting becomes more accessible. This webinar reviews recent work examining the actual play patterns of subscribers to a large daily fantasy sports provider with a focus on how these findings might provide insight about what to expect in the emerging US sports betting market.  

 

Learning Objectives: 

  • Describe the differences between DFS and traditional season-long fantasy sports 
and how those difference might relate to risk for addiction
  • Describe the exposure and adaptation effect as it applies to DFS and what we might 
expect to observe in the emerging US sports betting market 
  • Identify at least two risk factors that might predict failure to adapt among vulnerable 
individuals

  

Dr. Sarah Nelson is the director for research at the Division on Addiction, Cambridge Health Alliance, and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. At the Division, Nelson’s work covers many facets of addiction, including the relationship between psychiatric comorbidity and DUI offense, how best to develop community recovery environments for youth with substance use problems, and the distribution and determinants of gambling and gambling problems. Her gambling work includes studies of internet gambling and daily fantasy sports play, evaluations of responsible gambling programs, assessments of gambling treatment service systems, and the development of predictive models based on early online play patterns to detect subscribers who are at risk for gambling problems. Recently, Nelson has been working with actual player records from a large daily fantasy sports (DFS) providers to understand patterns of play across time. 

 

The webinar is free but advance registration is required: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5215947228241479949 

 

Attendees will earn 1.5 continuing education hours.  The ICRG is approved by NBCC and NAADAC.  Also, the ICRG is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  The ICRG maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

 

 

 

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