Problem gambling: development and application of a new conceptual framework for aetiology and treatment

问题赌博：病因学和治疗新概念框架的发展和应用。据估计，约有47万澳大利亚人（占成年人口的3.3%）有“严重”或“严重”的赌博问题。该项目响应了对问题赌博理论化和研究的新框架的呼吁（生产力委员会，1999）。目前，研究文献的特点是对定义，原因和治疗的分歧。在社区层面上，不同利益相关者对问题赌博的构建陷入了僵局。显然需要重新思考现有的方法。该项目采用了一种创新的社会科学方法，专门用于分析复杂的现实社会问题，以开发一个新的概念框架来理解和处理问题赌博。

Problem gambling: development and application of a new conceptual framework for aetiology and treatment. Around 470,000 Australians (3.3% of the adult population) are estimated to have 'significant' or 'severe' gambling problems. This project responds to the call for a new framework for theorising and researching problem gambling (Productivity Commission, 1999). Currently, the research literature is characterised by disagreement about definition, causes, and treatment. At the community level, different stakeholder constructions of problem gambling have deadlocked debate. There is a clear need to re-think existing approaches. This project applies an innovative, social-scientific methodology specifically designed to analyse complex, real-world social problems in order to develop a new conceptual framework for understanding and treating problem gambling.