CCGP - Council on Compulsive Gambling of Pennsylvania

DVDs

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Council on Compulsive Gambling of PA

215-389-4008

DVD#1 (approx. 71 min)

Big Win (20 min) High School Texas Hold-em: young addicted male hits bottom and seeks help

Done Deal (15 min) Early adolescent recovery: male struggles to maintain recovery despite urging of a “friend”

Play to Win (21 min) Inner city dice playing on school grounds: student in debt gets counseling from a teacher who understands how devastating compulsive gambling can be

Safe Bet (15 min) High School Sports Betting: adolescent sports gambler in debt

DVD#2 (approx. 65 min)

Escape to Nowhere (15 min) Female gambling: young female becomes addicted to Texas Hold-em

Big Win (20 min) High School Texas Hold-em: young addicted male hits bottom and seeks help

Done Deal (15 min) Early adolescent recovery: male struggles to maintain recovery despite urging of a “friend”

Safe Bet (15 min) High School Sports Betting: adolescent sports gambler in debt

DVD #3 (2-DVD set--approx. 100 min)

Escape to Nowhere (15 min)

Female gambling: young female becomes addicted to Texas Hold-em

Big Win (20 min)

High School Texas Hold-em: young addicted male hits bottom and seeks help

Done Deal (15 min)

Early adolescent recovery: male struggles to maintain recovery despite urging of a “friend”

Play to Win (21 min) Inner city dice playing on school grounds: student in debt gets counseling from a teacher who understands how devastating compulsive gambling can be

Safe Bet (15 min)

High School Sports Betting: adolescent sports gambler in debt

Better Deal (15 min)

Online gambling: high school students who becomes addicted and hit bottom; one seeks help, the other doesn’t.

Screening Tools: South Oaks Gambling Screens

South Oaks Gambling Screen

Name _____________________ Date: __________________

1. Please indicate which of the following types of gambling you have done in your lifetime. For each type, mark one answer: "not at all", less than once a week", or "once a week or more".

	Not at All	Less then once a week	Once a week or more
a	_____	_____	_____	Play cards for money
b	_____	_____	_____	Bet on horses, dogs or other animals (at OTB, the track or with a bookie)
c	_____	_____	_____	Bet on sports (parlay cards, or with bookie or or at Jai Alai)
d	_____	_____	_____	Played dice games (including craps, over and under or other dice games)
e	_____	_____	_____	Went to casino (legal or otherwise)
f	_____	_____	_____	Played the numbers or bet on lotteries
g	_____	_____	_____	Played bingo
h	_____	_____	_____	Played the stock and/or commodities market
i	_____	_____	_____	Played slot machines poker machines or other gambling machines
j	_____	_____	_____	Bowled, shot pool, played golf or some other game of skill for money
k	_____	_____	_____
l	_____	_____	_____

2. What is the largest amount of money you have ever gambled with on any one day?

_____ Never have gambled

_____ More that $100 up to $1,000

_____ $1 or less

_____ More than $1 $10,000

_____ More than $1 up to $10

_____ More that $1,000 to $10,000

_____ More than $10 up to $100

3. Do (did) your parents have a gambling problem?

______ Both my father and mother gamble(d) too much

______ My father gambles (or gambled) too much

______ My mother gambles or gambled too much

______ Neither one gambles too much

4. When you gamble, how often do you go back another day to win back money you lost?

_____ Never

_____ Some of the time (less than half the time I lose)

_____ Most of the time I lose

_____ Every time I lose

5. Have you ever claimed to be winning money gambling but weren't really? In fact, you lost?

_____ Never (or never gamble)

_____ Yes, less than half the time I lost

_____ Yes, most of the time

6. Do you feel you have ever had a problem with gambling?

_____ No

_____ Yes, in the past, but not now

_____ Yes

7. Did you ever gamble more than you intended to?

___ Yes

___ No

8. Have people criticized your gambling?

___ Yes

___ No

9. Have you ever felt guilty about the way you gamble or what happens when you gamble?

___ Yes

___ No

10. Have you ever felt like you would like to stop gambling, but didn't think you could?

___ Yes

___ No

11. Have you ever hidden betting, slips, lottery tickets, gambling money or other signs of gambling, from your spouse, children or other important people in your life?

___ Yes

___ No

12. Have you ever argued with people you live with over how handle money?

___ Yes

___ No

13. (If you answered yes to question 12): Have money arguments ever centered on your gambling?

___ Yes

___ No

14. Have you ever borrowed from someone and not paid them back as a result of your gambling?

___ Yes

___ No

15. Have you ever lost time from work (or school) due to gambling?

___ Yes

___ No

16. If you borrowed money to gamble to or to pay gambling debts who or where did you borrow from?

a. from household money ___ Yes ___ No

b. from your spouse ___ Yes ___ No

c. from other relatives or in-laws ___ Yes ___ No

d. from banks, loan companies or credit unions ___ Yes ___ No

e. from credit cards ___ Yes ___ No

f. from loan sharks ("shylocks") ___ Yes ___ No

g. you cashed in stocks, bonds, other securities ___ Yes ___ No

h. you sold pesonal or family property ___ Yes ___ No

i. you borrowed on your checking account ___ Yes ___ No

(passed bad checks)

j. you have (bad) a credit line with a bookie ___ Yes ___ No

k. you have (had) a credit line with a casino ___ Yes ___ No

Scores on the SOGS are determined by adding up the number of questions which show an "at risk" response:

Questions 1,2 & 3 are not counted.

_____ Question 4 - most of the time I lose, or every time I lose

_____ Question 5 - yes, less than half the time I lose or, yes, most of the time

_____ Question 6 - yes, in the past but not now or, yes

_____ Question 7 - yes

_____ Question 8 - yes

_____ Question 9 - yes

_____ Question 10 - yes

_____ Question 11 - yes

_____ Question 12 - not counted

_____ Question 13 - yes

_____ Question 14 - yes

_____ Question 15 - yes

_____ Question 16a - yes

_____ Question 16b - yes

_____ Question 16c - yes

_____ Question 16d - yes

_____ Question 16e - yes

_____ Question 16f - yes

_____ Question 16g - yes

_____ Question 16h - yes

_____ Question 16i - yes

Questions 16j and 16k not counted

TOTAL = _______ (There are 2 questions which are counted)

1-4 = some problem

5 or more = probable pathological gambler.

SOUTH OAKS GAMBLING SCREEN: REVISED FOR ADOLESCENTS (SOGS-RA)

The 12 scored items for the SOGS-RA from Winters, K.C., Stinchfield R.D. and Fulkerson, J. (1993a) are listed below.

a. How often have you gone back another day to try and win back money you lost gambling?

Every time

Most of the time

Some of the time

Never

b. When you were betting, have you ever told others you were winning money when you weren’t?

Yes

c. Has your betting money ever caused any problems for you such as arguments with family and friends, or problems at school or work?

Yes

d. Have you ever gambled more than you had planned to?

Yes

e. Has anyone criticized your betting, or told you that you had a gambling problem whether you thought it true or not?

Yes

f. Have you ever felt bad about the amount of money you bet, or about what happens when you bet money?

Yes

g. Have you ever felt like you would like to stop betting, but didn’t think you could?

Yes

h. Have you ever hidden from family or friends any betting slips, IOUs, lottery tickets, money that you won, or any signs of gambling?

Yes

i. Have you had money arguments with family or friends that centered on gambling?

Yes

j. Have you borrowed money to bet and not paid it back?

Yes

k. Have you ever skipped or been absent from school or work due to betting activities?

Yes

l. Have you borrowed money or stolen something in order to bet or to cover gambling activities?

Yes

Scoring Rules for SOGS-RA

Each item is scored either 1 (affirmative) or 0 (nonaffirmative). Item “a” is scored 1 if respondent indicates “every time” or “most of the time” and is scored 0 otherwise. Calculations for broad and narrow rates come from Winters, Stinchfield and Kim, 1995.

Calculation of Narrow Rates	Calculation of Broad Rates
Level 0 = No past year gambling.	Level 0 = No past year gambling
Level 1= SOGS-RA score of _ 1	Level 1 = Gambling less than daily and SOGS-RA score = 0, OR, less than weekly gambling and SOGS-RA score _ 1.
Level 2 = SOGS-RA score of 2 or 3	Level 2 = At least weekly gambling and SOGS-RA score _ 1 OR gambling less than weekly and SOGS-RA score _ 2.
Level 3 = SOGS-RA score of _ 4	Level 3= At least weekly gambling + SOGS-RA score _ 2 OR daily gambling

Winters, K.C., Stinchfield, R.D, & Fulkerson, J. (1993). Toward the development of an adolescent problem severity scale. Journal of Gambling Studies, 9, 63-84.