"man blir också ofta mer dömd som kvinna som spelberoende, än en man" : En kvalitativ studie om hur professioner inom socialt arbete arbetar med spelmissbruk hos kvinnor

Sammanfattning: The aim of the study was to examine how professional social workers who work with addiction in both nonprofit and municipal organizations, describe and work with women with gambling addiction from their perspective as professionals. This was done to try to contribute with further knowledge regarding women with gambling addiction in social work. We wanted to examine the professionals who work with gambling women out of perspectives from theories about gender and stigmatization to explore differences in treatments, speech and the addiction itself between men and women. This study has shown the conclusions that women may need other kind of support to become free from gambling, according to structural inequality and differences in gender expectations that make women more familyoriented, vulnerable and shameful, also in a gambling addiction. By not emphasizing the structural circumstances leading up to and forming the gambling addiction, the women risk not receiving right, or any, treatment if professionals do not learn how to recognize gambling addiction in women and how the addiction can portrait different from men. This study has also shown that support from partner have displayed to be crucial for the gambling man in overcoming his addiction, where women do not seem to have the same amount of support from home and therefore do not have the same basis of getting through their addiction either.