About the Training

This online course is part of the Training Series for Disordered Gamblers. This course will focus on women's gambling behaviors and treatments. The course content delves into explaining risk factors influencing gambling patterns of women gamblers, assessing clinical presenting issues of women gamblers in treatment, providing evidence-based components of treatment with women gamblers, and describing cultural considerations with diverse women gamblers.

Dr. Deborah Haskins, President of the Maryland Council on Problem Gambling, is a licensed professional counselor and IGCC-II, BACC. Dr. Haskins shares her insights and experiences as an expert in the field. As you work through the Training Series for Disordered Gamblers, you will be guided in evidence-based research and trends related to problem gambling. You will have the opportunity to study case-based scenarios and apply current treatment standards. This program is designed to advocate toward improving the lives of problem gamblers, their loved ones, and the communities in which they live.