Face-to-Face and Telephone Counseling for Problem Gambling: A Pragmatic Multisite Randomized Study

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 57-65

  Tse, Samson ^a   Campbell, Lisa ^b   Rossen, Fiona ^c   Wang, Chong Wen ^a   Jull, Andrew ^c   Yan, Elsie ^a   Jackson, Alun ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b The Salvation Army   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

behavioral addictions; counseling; gambling disorder

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871109604     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: 15527581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731512466150     Document Type: Article

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