Treatment Training Session
STRENGTHEN YOUR PRACTICE: Advanced Training for Treatment Providers
Build the skills you need to support clients experiencing gambling harm
Join leading practitioners and researchers for a full day of professional development designed specifically for treatment providers. Gain evidence-based strategies, emerging trends analysis, and practical interventions you can implement immediately.
Price:
- Training Session $129 + Early Bird, In-person Discovery registration $850 (before Feb 27) - $979
- Training Session $129 + Regular, In-person Discovery registration $1,050 (after Feb 27) - $1,179
- Training Session only - $199
What's included:
- Expert-led sessions from CAMH, The Better Institute and RGC, and practical tools and resources
- Connect with a professional network for peer learning and ongoing support
- Breakfast, lunch and breaks
- Continuing Education Units (CEUs)*
*Application submitted
Space is limited — secure your spot before it's gone!
Below you will find the full details and agenda for the training session.
Single event sports betting and increasing convergence with digital gaming. This session offers a high-level overview of Canadian and Ontario trends, highlighting shifting participation patterns, rising youth and young adult engagement, emerging risk factors, signs of harm, and the intersections with mental health and substance use. Participants will gain a clear picture of the current risk environment and key considerations for prevention.
Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) is a well-established treatment for problem gambling, with strong support for its efficacy. This session moves beyond foundational principles to focus on what is new and evolving in the empirical literature, with particular attention to real-world application. Drawing on recent research, including implementation studies and emerging treatment approaches, this talk will explore how CBT for problem gambling is being adapted to address contemporary clinical realities, including comorbidity, variability in readiness for change, digital delivery, and system-level constraints. Emphasis will be placed on translating evidence into practical, flexible, and context-sensitive strategies for service delivery settings.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify recent developments in the CBT literature for problem gambling.
- Discuss evidence-informed adaptations of CBT to address common real-world challenges such as comorbidity, low engagement, and time-limited care.
- Critically evaluate emerging directions in CBT for problem gambling, including digital, brief, and blended care approaches.
- Integrate CBT strategies within broader service delivery frameworks, including stepped care, harm-reduction–oriented models, and integrated mental health and addictions services.
- Reflect on gaps and limitations in the current evidence base and consider implications for clinical decision-making and program design.
This 90-minute presentation is designed to address a critical gap in knowledge for the treatment community regarding online and sports betting. The session will focus on key areas including the "anxious generation" research to explain new gamblers and the global expansion of online and sports betting. It will also cover clinical strategies for specific demographics like youth and later age onset females, the role of family involvement, and effective interventions, including the use of self-exclusion, blocking software, and finances.
Learning Objectives:
- Analyze the anxious generation research to understand and explain the profile of new gamblers.
- Recognize the unique gambling patterns and considerations for both youth and later age onset females.
- Identify the essential role of family involvement in clinical strategies for treating gambling addiction.
- Apply effective interventions tailored for online and sports betting, including the utilization of self-exclusion, blocking software, and finances.
Participants will also be actively involved in small workgroups practicing and applying clinical strategies to clinical cases.
