Evaluering av insatser riktade mot spelmissbruk : En scoping study om spelmissbrukares stöd

Sammanfattning: Many times, gaming starts as a hobby but can quickly transform into a costly and destructiveaddiction.The overall aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the research field concerninginterventions for adult individuals with gambling addiction through a literature review by doinga scoping study. Therefore, the research question is: What interventions are available for adultindividuals with gambling addiction and what is their effect? To achieve this, the study focusedon collecting data through systematically processing and analyzing 15 peer reviewed articles thatwere run in different countries. The results present a variety of methods with differentapproaches. Subsequently, the findings of the various interventions' effects are analyzed andpresented in themes. The results show that non-person-directed treatment models such as GHO,GA, and Your First Step to Change yielded comparable or superior outcomes compared toperson-directed treatment models such as CBT and MI. The study also shows that the intensityof interventions does not necessarily lead to better results, and they suggest that other research indifferent substance abuse areas demonstrates similar findings. The above findings are analyzedin the discussion with the assistance of the support theory founded by Irvin Yalom (1970) andthe systems theory founded by Bertalanffy (2015). By integrating these various approaches,individuals can benefit from a versatile and comprehensive support structure that enhances theirrecovery process.