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With the lure of online gambling high during COVID-19 lockdowns – and SA gambling venues now reopening – partners and families of problem gamblers may be the first to see a problem emerging.
In addition to treating problem gamblers, the gambling service at Statewide Gambling Therapy Service based at Flinders has a special focus on supporting family members of problem gamblers who are resistant to seeking help. Go to the website or contact: Flinders Medical Centre: (08) 8204 6982; Salisbury: (08) 8182 5191; Regional SA: (08) 8204 6982. Our club offers a full modern clubhouse facility and boasts the largest membership in NYS. We have land holdings of 100+ acres, a grass and snow racetrack, the largest Poker Run in the area and a legal gambling license. Connect with Storage 2000 at Barndioota Road, Salisbury, SA. Find business, government and residential phone numbers, addresses & more on the White Pages®.
Many problem gamblers do not acknowledge their addiction and do not seek help – and that’s when people close to them need support to cope, and potentially even help turn the situation around by motivating a partner to seek help.
“Most people with gambling problems don’t seek formal help, so problems often remain hidden within families,” says Flinders University expert Ben Riley, an expert from the Statewide Gambling Therapy Service.
“As well as evidence-based strategies to help motivate non-help-seeking problem gamblers to acknowledge their problem and seek help, it’s clear we also need effective programs to help partners protect their own wellbeing and perhaps help their partner to seek treatment or targeted interventions.”
Gambling and addiction experts at the Flinders University and Deakin University warn partners and families of such problem gamblers can suffer from chronic worry, exhaustion, relationship conflict, and an overwhelming sense of isolation.
“They may become hypervigilant as a response to a non-disclosing problem gamblers’ activities,” adds co-author Professor Sharon Lawn.
“In our in-depth interviews with 15 such partners, they said they found it exceedingly difficult to reliably detect their partners’ gambling behaviour, resulting in chronic hypervigilance, and many were reluctant to seek help due to stigma,” she says.
“Families are often the first to know something is going on, and they really share the adverse consequences in many ways. Involving families sooner to help identify gambling problems earlier is a missed opportunity.”
Mr Riley says new programs could focus on helping family members or partners to motivate their loved one to seek help.
“It’s a real gap in knowledge because only a very small proportion of problem gamblers seek help – and that may be only when significant harm has been done to finances, relationships, reputation and employment,” he says.
In addition to treating problem gamblers, the gambling service at Statewide Gambling Therapy Service based at Flinders has a special focus on supporting family members of problem gamblers who are resistant to seeking help. Go to the website or contact:
- Flinders Medical Centre: (08) 8204 6982
- Salisbury: (08) 8182 5191
- Regional SA: (08) 8204 6982
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The services are available via telephone, video call or for inpatient treatment.
The new article, “When I’m not angry I am anxious”: The lived experiences of individuals in a relationship with a non-help-seeking problem gambler – A hermeneutic phenomenological study (July 2020) by BJ Riley, SJ Lawn, BR Crisp and MW Battersby has been published in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (Sage) DOI: 10.1177/0265407520928581 (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0265407520928581).
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