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Article: Adolescent Pathological Gambling: Prevention and Treatment (Chinese Edition).(Book review)
- Article from:
- Hong Kong Journal of Psychiatry
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
- Author:
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Adolescent Pathological Gambling: Prevention and Treatment (Chinese Edition) Tsang WL The Chinese University Press, 2006 US$14.00; pp192; ISBN: 978-962-996-303-3
This book, written in Chinese by an associate professor of Applied Social Studies, discusses pathological gambling in adolescents. Since it targets at social workers, teachers, and youth counsellors, it is principally written from a broad, sociological perspective.
The author tries to awaken us to the magnitude of the problem of pathological gambling (especially in adolescents) using local and global statistics. In Hong Kong, 2.6 to 4.9% of adolescents are found to be pathological gamblers, and ...