DVDs

For more information, contact:

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.

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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".

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

 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.

If you have questions regarding the South Oaks Gambling Screen please visit http://www.longislandhome.org
See also, the Twenty Questions of Gamblers Anonymous.