Statewide Gambling Therapy Service. Flinders Therapy Service for Problem Gamblers established in 1996. Expanded in 2007 to become Statewide Gambling Therapy Services. Inpatient / outpatient. Consumer Consultants. The SGTS is run through the Southern Adelaide Health Service (FMC) and Flinders University funded by SA government with contributions from the industry. Ward 4GP Services at Flinders Medical Centre Ward 4GP is a mental health inpatient service within Flinders Medical Centre, supported by a multidisciplinary team. It is located on the fourth level of the hospital and is accessed via the northern entrance. The Statewide Gambling Therapy Service, built on Flinders University research, is helping to reduce overcrowding in South Australian prisons. Success with the Gambling Intervention Program (GIP) provided by the State-funded program is providing offenders with a means to address and solve their gambling problems without being incarcerated. I am involved with community engagement in gambling disorder and related mental health problems. As a senior therapist within Statewide Gambling Therapy Service based in Port Adelaide I am responsible for workload management and consumer consultant involvement within the service. . Australian-first Aboriginal and TSI gambling therapy program (the retained Aboriginal gambling therapy service at FMC has only one therapist for all SA). Prison gambling therapy program trialled and developed over the last five years for men and women and for Aboriginal people, with proven success at follow up from prison release.
These brief profiles form part of the promotional strategy for the FCGR and provide a framework for our capability statement; a brief summary of what we do, where we work the track records of our key collaborators and our vision for future research programmes.Professor Battersby established the FCGR in 2010 as part of the Flinders Human Behaviour and Health Research Unit http://www.flinders.edu.au/medicine/sites/fhbhru/. With an extensive background in chronic illness management research and psychiatry, Professor Battersby has established national and international research links with the aim of building an independent gambling research programme to explore the key questions relating to problematic gambling in our community..ie
To begin addressing some of these key questions, Professor Battersby is currently completing a Randomised Controlled Trial exploring the efficacy of different treatment regimens for problematic gambling. As the Director of the Flinders Human Behaviour and Health Research Unit, Professor Battersby also leads the Master of Mental Health Sciences programme at Flinders University where health professionals are trained in the use of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for the treatment of people with gambling disorders. Therapists trained in this unit then work with the Statewide Gambling Therapy Service to treat clients seeking help for their gambling problems. | |
Peter's research background is in population health and chronic illness management. Prior to this research activity, he taught Mathematics and English in secondary schools in SA , WA and Tonga. During 1996 to 2004 he led a number of major health research projects, including the rural component of the South Australian Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Coordinated Care Trial and the Sharing Health Care SA chronic disease self-management demonstration project. From 2005-2007, as a chief investigator, Peter led the Centre of Clinical Research Excellence (CCRE) in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health established by the Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia in collaboration with Flinders University with the support of NH&MRC funding. Currently Peter coordinates the activities of the Statewide Gambling Therapy Service (SGTS) in South Australia and is the Director of the Flinders Centre for GamblingResearch. Peter is also involved in a number of ongoing chronic condition management and self-management research programmes. He has published over 50 peer reviewed papers, books and book chapters in the past 10 years and his work in gambling research builds on his experience as a teacher, health systems researcher and manager of a therapy service providing CBT based treatment for people experiencing gambling problems. | |
As the Director of the Southgate Institute within Flinders University, Professor Baum is a key partner working with the Flinders Centre for Gambling Research and brings a public health policy research capacity to the wider team. In addition to our research involving problem identification, assessment and treatment, Professor Baum is keen to explore aspects of the modern problem gambling phenomenon from the perspective of the social determinants of human behaviour, health and quality of life. | |
David is a PhD candidate whose thesis is based on a current FCGR randomised controlled study into the treatment effects of cognitive vs behavioural approaches to therapy for people with gambling disorders. He is a mental health clinician, and has a background in mental health nursing, mathematics and statistics and provides valuable analytical and research support to the Centre. http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/david.smith | |
Dr Pols is a psychiatrist interested in a range of human behaviours around health, wellbeing and addictions. He has a background in chronic condition management and self-management research and works with the FCGR to explore treatment processes and outcomes for clients with gambling problems. http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/rene.pols | |
Michael is a psychiatrist with the Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders University Human behaviour and Health Research Unit and leads, with Professor Battersby, the Centre for Anxiety and Related Disorders in the Adelaide Health Service. Due to the extent of co-morbidities associated with clients with gambling disorders, Michael's work with anxiety disorders complements the work of the Statewide Gambling Therapy Service and the FCGR. http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/michael.baigent | |
Kirsten has experience conducting psychological and population-based mental-health research and teaching in related topics. Her research interests include the psychological factors influencing gambling behaviour as well as broader, health-related areas including attitudes and beliefs about health-behaviour and health-literacy. Kirsten is a registered psychologist working with the Statewide Gambling Therapy Service. She provides cognitive therapy-based treatment and support to clients in the cognitive therapy arm of the current randomised controlled trial run through FCGR. The trial explores the effects of purely cognitive vs purely behavioural therapy for people with gambling addictions. She has also worked with people experiencing anxiety, personality disorders, depression, and with families having difficulty managing behaviour in children with cognitive impairments and/or a diagnosis of an autism spectrum or attachment disorder employing employ evidence-based approaches such as cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness techniques, and acceptance and commitment therapy. http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/kirsten.dunn | |
Amii Larsen Amii recently graduated with distinction in the master of mental health science programme at Flinders University. In addition to working as a pyscho-therapist for the Statewide Gambling Therapy Service, Amii is completing a qualitative study on the gambling behaviour or young people with a particular focus on on-line gambling. | |
Ben has a social work background and a master of mental health sciences degree. He runs the Statewide Gambling Therapy Service office in Salisbury in the northern suburbs of Adelaide and provides CBT for clients with gambling disorders. http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/ben.riley | |
Jane is a clinical team leader with the Statewide Gambling Therapy Service. She has a mental health nursing background and a master of mental health sciences degree from Flinders University. Her current PhD work explores the relapse process in Electronic Gaming Machine Gambling (EGM) in respect to why people relapse the first time, why people keep relapsing over time and how they stop relapsing to problematic gambling behaviours. | |
Sue works with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) and Aboriginal communities to improve client access to and uptake of gambling help services in South Australia. She is currently working on a project to modify and validate the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) for use in Aboriginal communities and to adapt and translate therapy approaches for clients in the Vietnamese community in Adelaide. | |
| Tiffany is a registered psychologist whose interests lie in the intersection between psychology and the law. Her research interests include problem gambling, violence, vicarious traumatisation, juror decision making, and victim-offender mediation. Her current role as Research Associate on an ARC Linkage Grant, exploring the connections between family violence and problem gambling, compliments her experience as a psychologist in both government and non–government organisations, in the areas of assessment, intervention, program development, and advocacy. | |
Rachel is a Research Fellow with the Statewide Gambling Therapy Service and is currently working with longitudinal data sets to track and model longer term clinical and lifestyle changes and outcomes for people treated for gambling addiction. She has 20 years research and clinical experience in the field of addiction from a psychological, pharmacological and public health perspective. She has coordinated international clinical trials for the World Health Organisation on the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) and has developed Brief Intervention models linked to this screen. Rachel is a registered psychologist and has developed and implemented learning programs for clinicians in drug and alcohol screening and early intervention. | |
Gaston Antezana Gaston has experience working as a clinical psychologist with different populations in South America providing CBT, neuropsychology and systemic psychotherapy. He also has academic experience as a lecturer. |
External Researchers
Alun C Jackson PhD, is Professor and Director of the Problem Gambling Treatment Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health at LaTrobe University, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Research Fellow of the Centre on Behavioural Health at the University of Hong Kong. Professor Jackson has been involved in the design and direction of many large-scale research programs including an evaluation of the Victorian Gambler's Help service, an assessment of the health and mental health effects of gambling on women; an analysis of best practice in treatments; a study of the impact of gambling on children and adolescents; a review of prevalence measures; and the design of practice standards. He has also worked with the Australian Institute for Gambling Research on a range of studies with State governments relating to prevalence, service design and the design of industry-specific and whole of industry responsible gambling policies. He is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Gambling Issues; and Gambling Research, the journal of the National Association for Gambling Studies in Australia. Professor Jackson is the Chair of a working group on social marketing, health promotion and public education, of the International Think Tank on Presenting Gambling Populations and First Contact Services, established in December 2005, and a member of the Victorian Independent Gambling Peer Review Panel. |
Professor Robert Ladouceur Professor Robert Ladouceur is Professor Emeritus at the school of Psychology at the Université Laval de Québec. He completed postdoctoral studies at Temple University in Philadelphia and during his academic career has published over 400 scientific papers and written or edited 5 books. On two occasions he was invited to present his work to the members of the US presidential commission on the impacts of gambling; a commission created by President Bill Clinton. In 1996, he received a Research Award from the National Council on Problem Gambling; a distinction given by the Americans to highlight the best researcher in the this field. In 2003, he received the 'Senior Research Award' award from the prestigious medical school of Harvard University and was recognised as the most distinguished international researcher involved with research into problem gambling. He presented at conferences and led training workshops in several Canadian provinces, American States and European countries including Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and in Asia. The treatment that he developed at Laval University in Quebec (Canada) to help pathological gamblers is now used in several countries, including Australia. This approach to the treatment of problem gambling has led to the establishment of the Quebec Centre of excellence for the prevention and treatment of gambling, with Professor Ladouceur as Director and the publication of a volume entitled Understand and Overcome Gambling. This work has been translated into English (Wiley Press) and Italian. The recent achievements of Professor Ladouceur, include the publication of a model of responsible gaming; the model of Reno, written in collaboration with Professor Howard Shaffer of Harvard University and Professor Alex Blaszczynski of the University of Sydney (Australia). This model of prevention has already been adopted by courts and by several members of the gaming industry. Last year, with Stella Lachance, he published two volumes in Oxford Press relating to the treatment of pathological gamblers entitled Overcoming Pathological Gambling. Professor Ladouceur recently visited the Flinders Centre for Gambling Research (October 17-19) in South Australia to assist with a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) being run through the Centre. The trail is exploring the relative benefits and efficacy of cognitive compared with behavioural therapy for the treatment of problematic gambling. He is also involved in planning a larger Australian study into the effects of different forms of treatment for disordered gambling. |
Prior to joining AUT Professor Abbott was National Director of the Mental Health Foundation and President of the World Federation for Mental Health - positions involving advocacy and service provision to improve the lives of people experiencing mental health problems. He came to AUT to lead the development of a Faculty that would contribute significantly to the knowledge base for effective health policy and practice and prepare health and related professionals to make a positive difference to the communities they serve. The Faculty has become New Zealand's largest and most diverse health science education provider. As coordinator of the international ‘Think Tank' on problem gambling, Professor Abbott is currently collaborating with the Flinders Centre for Gambling Research to establish multi-site studies into the effectiveness of various treatments for a range of gambling disorders. |
The aim of the centre is to conduct studies into the health, social, economic and political impact of gambling on society including the community, families and individuals, and to influence the formulation of policy in this area.
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Researchers at the centre have developed a number of national and international research collaborations in the area of problematic gambling and applications for research funding are currently being pursued. Results of early pilot studies into relapse in problem gambling, longitudinal outcomes of treatment programmes and the exploration of alternative treatment options for treatment resistant gamblers (eg the application of Naltrexone in the treatment of problematic gamblers) are encouraging and provide a sound foundation for future research in this field. For more information about the centre please view our about us page.
Vision:
The FCGR will be nationally and internationally recognised for high quality gambling treatment research and scholarship.
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Mission:
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The Centre will serve to enhance community knowledge and understanding of the phenomenon of problematic gambling and use this knowledge to improve the lives of people who are adversely affected by gambling.
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