This session will describe the various treatment components in the no-cost, California treatment program for people with gambling disorders and people adversely affected by gambling disorder. This program has been operational since 2009 and clinical descriptions, characteristics and outcomes of this state program will described in depth and detail. Specific emphasis will be placed on describing trends in treatment seeking patients and lessons learned from managing, evaluating and designing a state funded treatment program on a limited budget.
Learning Objectives:
1) Increase familiarity of the demographic and gambling behaviors of individuals presenting to treatment for gambling disorder in California
2) Compare and contrasts treatment outcomes across different treatment components in California
3) Apply treatment seeking patterns, profiles and experiences between California and other state-funded treatment programs.