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The Role of the Betting Shop Environment in the Training of “Compulsive” Gamblers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Mark Dickerson
Mark Dickerson
Affiliation:
Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
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Entering the betting shop environment may be influenced not only by economic motives (Hess and Diller, 1969) but also by early learning within the family (Bergler, 1957) and by the contingencies operative in the wider social environment (Newman, 1972).

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1977 , pp. 3 - 8
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1977

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