Recovery of pathological gambling with and without treatment / Recuperación de los problemas de juego patológico con y sin tratamiento
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https://doi.org/10.21134/haaj.v4i2.130Keywords:
Juego patológico, recuperación natural, recuperación asistida, procesos de cambio. / Keywords, Gambling, natural recovery, treatment-assisted recovery, processes of changing.Abstract
Los estudios señalan que sólo un porcentaje muy pequeño de los jugadores patológicos acude alguna vez a tratamiento profesional y que la forma más habitual de abandono del juego patológico es la recuperación natural. En general, los jugadores que acuden a los programas de tratamiento presentan una mayor severidad del problema que los que no acuden a estos programas. No parecen existir excesivas diferencias en los factores relacionados con el cambio entre aquellos que acuden a tratamiento y los que se recuperan por sí mismos. Las estrategias conductuales y cognitivo-motivacionales, además de los procesos de cambio cognitivos, son los factores que mejor explican el cambio y el mantenimiento de la abstinencia en el juego patológico. De todos modos se necesitan más investigaciones sobre los factores implicados en la recuperación del juego patológico, de cara a mejorar los recursos terapéuticos disponibles para tratar este tipo de problemas.
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Research shows that only a very small percentage of pathological gamblers seek professional treatment at any time, and that the commonest form of escape from pathological gambling is natural recovery. In general, gamblers who follow treatment programmes present greater severity of the problem than those who do not follow such programmes. There do not appear to be excessive differences in the factors related to change between those who seek treatment and those who recover by themselves. Behavioural and cognitive-motivational strategies, as well as cognitive processes of change, are the factors that best explain change and maintained abstinence in pathological gambling. In any case, further research is necessary on the factors involved in recovery from pathological gambling, with a view to improving the therapeutic resources available for treating this type of problem.
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