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ICRG webinars are available for viewing approximately 12 months after the presentation date. If you have difficulty viewing any of the archived webinars, you may download and install the webinar software from the GoToWebinar website. If trouble persists, please contact us.

Please note: The ICRG cannot award continuing education hours for accessing archived webinars as we do not have the capability to record attendance as required by the organizations that have approved the ICRG to offer continuing education.

 

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

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.  

 

View the archived webinar here

 

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. 

 

What People do it 12-Step Programs That Mobilizes Changes and Why

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. 

 

View the archived webinar here

 

Learning Objectives: 

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

 

Instructor:  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. 

 

Practice Guidelines for Treating Gambling-related Problems: An Evidence-based Treatment Guide for Clinicians

 

Evidence-based practice guidelines rest upon research, clinical expertise and patient characteristics. This presentation will cover what this means for treating gambling-related problems. Using evidence from a recent empirical review of the literature, Dr. LaPlante will review treatment approaches that have high quality, developing, and limited empirical evidence supporting their efficacy. This presentation will provide information about the tools and strategies that research indicates are most likely to work, areas in need of additional scientific consideration and the implications for people with gambling-related problems.

 

View the archived webinar here

 

Learning objectives: 

  • Describe recent research related to the empirical assessment of strategies for treating gambling-related problems

  • Identify strategies that have high quality, developing, and limited strength of evidence

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Instructor:

Debi LaPlante, PhD, is director of the Division on Addiction, Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School (HMS) teaching hospital, and an assistant professor of psychiatry at HMS. She helped develop the Syndrome Model of Addiction and has conducted numerous research projects on responsible gambling.

 

Military Veterans and Gambling Problems: Research Perspectives

May 22, 2019

Recent research indicates that military veterans have a higher rate of gambling disorder than the adult general public. This webinar highlights new research on gambling problems among veterans.

View the archived webinar here

Learning Objectives:

 

  • Identify one finding from research veterans in treatment for gambling disorder

  • Explain why veterans are vulnerable to developing a gambling disorder​

 

Instructors:

Dr. Shane W. Kraus is a clinical psychologist at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts. He is a core Research Investigator with the VISN 1 New England Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, which focuses on improving understanding about the prevalence and consequences of addictions among U.S. military Veterans and co-occurring conditions such as mental illnesses, VA-compensated disabilities, homelessness, criminal justice histories, and medical issues. He is an assistant professor of psychiatry at University Massachusetts Medical School in Worchester, Massachusetts.

After joining Bedford VAMC in 2016, Dr. Kraus developed the Behavioral Addictions Clinic, an outpatient specialty mental health clinic which provides short-term individual and group psychotherapy as well as pharmacotherapy to Veterans with behavioral addictions. He has published extensively on topics of addictions, trauma/victimization, sexual behavior, and mental health issues for the last 9 years and has co-authored 49 articles and 7 book chapters. 

 

Dr. Joshua Grubbs is assistant professor of psychology at Bowling Green State University. His research falls primarily into three domains: the scientific study of addiction, personality, and religion as it relates to addiction and personality. In the field of addiction, he is particularly interested in topics related to behavioral addictions or compulsive behavior patterns. Dr. Grubbs is focused on the social and structural factors that shape self-perception and how self-reported beliefs about addiction influence presentation of symptoms, which, in turn, influence diagnosis, classification, and treatment of addictive behaviors. In short, he is interested in how society and environment affect self-perception of addictive behaviors and how that self-perception interacts with the addiction. He has past and ongoing projects related to self-reported problematic internet pornography use, hypersexual behavior more broadly, and gambling disorder. Dr. Grubbs was the recipient of an NCRG grant on gambling and traumatic stress among military veterans.

 

I Love a Good Clinical Handout! The Neurobiology of Gambling Disorder

April 24, 2019

Webinar slides and handouts can be found here

View the archived webinar here

“Why do people keep gambling even when it isn’t fun?” “Why is it hard to say ‘no’ to a gambling urge?” As a counselor, how do you answer when a client asks these questions? This webinar will describe a partnership between problem gambling researchers and counselors to develop a series of clinical handouts for use in counseling sessions. Using findings from current neurobiological research, these tools answer five frequently asked questions about the brain and gambling disorder. The webinar will describe the process of developing the clinical handouts and how they can be used effectively in treatment sessions.

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn about effective clinical-research partnerships to develop tools for clients with problem gambling
  • Answer five often-asked client questions about the neurobiology of problem gambling and how to effectively integrate these clinical tools into your practice.
  • Use the handouts to enhance your clinical work and help clients apply what they have learned to their own situations.

Instructors: Iris Balodis, PhD, is assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at McMaster University. Her research focuses on motivational processes influencing maladaptive decision-making, including gambling disorder. Deirdre Querney, MSW, CPGC, CCAC, is a registered social worker and certified problem gambling counselor with the City of Hamilton’s Alcohol, Drug & Gambling Services in Ontario, Canada. She is also a part-time instructor with the McMaster University Centre for Continuing Education in the Professional Addictions Studies Program.


I think therefore I am…a cognitive behavioral specialist

June 20, 2018

View the archived webinar here

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), a treatment strategy used frequently for gambling disorder, is best known for its structured techniques (e.g., self-monitoring, daily thought records, advantages-disadvantages analyses, scaling, decisional balance, chain analysis, etc.). Unfortunately, even the best CBT techniques fail to help many people struggling with addictions. The purpose of this brief webinar is to focus on the most important skill associated with CBT: thinking like a cognitive-behavioral therapist. During this 90-minute webinar Dr. Liese will focus on thinking (i.e., cognitive) processes that may sharpen clinicians’ skills, including those who do not identify as cognitive-behavioral therapists.

 

Learning Objectives: As a result of participating in this webinar, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the potential value of thinking like a cognitive-behavioral therapist

  • Identify at least one new thought that will enhance their ability to provide therapy to people with addictions

Instructor: Bruce S. Liese, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., is one of the nation’s leading CBT trainers. He is professor of family medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center, where he has taught and practiced psychology for almost three decades. He is a recipient of the Presidential Citation for Distinguished Service to the APA Society of Addiction Psychology and has co-authored CBT treatment manuals with Dr. Aaron T. Beck and others, used in randomized clinical trials. Dr. Liese is the current president of Division 50 at the APA. He has expanded his research agenda to include non-substance based addictions such as gambling disorder.


 

Educationg Patrons and Employees about Responsible Gaming: What Does the Reseach Say?

May 30, 2018

View the archived webinar here

Speaker: Heather Grey, Ph.D., Associate Director of academic affairs at the Division on Addiction, Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School (HMS) teaching hospital, and instructor in psychiatry at HMS

Moderator: Christine Reilly, Senior Research Director, National Center for Responsible Gaming

Learning Objectives: As a result of this webinar, attendees will be able to:

Identify the rationale for responsible gambling (RG) education programs
  • Describe what the research says about patron-facing RG education programs
  • Describe what the research says about employee-facing RG education programs
  • Identify common limitations of research evaluating RG education programs
  • Apply findings to design of new RG education programsaultmanson@yahoo.com

 

 

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