The first of January 2018 an amendment of the Socialtjänstlag accrued stating that municipalities now have to provide care and treatment for individuals with a pathological gambling disorder. However in the spring of 2017 only 17 percent of the municipalities offered a specific treatment for gambling disorder. An assumed aftermath of the amendment is an increase of the workload for current gambling therapists and furthermore a rise in educating new additional gambling therapists. The aim of this study is to analyze what knowledge and which models of operation are fundamental factors that are required in managing a gambling treatment. The studies selection consisted of a total of five currently active gambling therapists employed in Region Skåne and Malmö Stad. The empirical material has been collected through thematic semi-structured interviews that took about 60 minutes each. Then a thematic analysis of the transcribed interviews was performed. The result in this study showed that a gambling therapist should have knowledge concerning risk- and protective factors in relation to the gambling disorder, this to prevent the client from a possible relapse and to make the client aware about the risk factors directly connected to the gambling game-layout. Furthermore the results showed that one of the fundamental models of operation is to normalize the addiction to the client and raise the clients awareness of the patterns of behavior and consequences regarding the gambling. One model of operation that is also found to be fundamental is for the gambling therapist to have a pedagogical approach towards the client. Thus for the results of this study and former research have shown that people with a gambling disorder have an impaired metacognitive capability regarding their decisions.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-24241 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Kroge, Wilhelm, Nordström, Gabriella |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), Malmö universitet/Hälsa och samhälle |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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