Your Local Community Is Considering Whether to Adopt an Ordinance

question 64

Multiple Choice

Your local community is considering whether to adopt an ordinance that would allow riverboat gambling. This controversial issue has strong emotions on both sides. When you go to a meeting to hear both sides, what might you hear from the side making an argument against the boat?

• A) Pathological gambling is listed as an impulse control disorder.
• B) Pathological gambling is a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
• C) A high rate of medical problems is associated with pathological gambling.
• D) Antisocial personality disorder is strongly associated with pathological gambling.

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Definitions:

Rational-Emotive

A psychotherapeutic approach developed by Albert Ellis, focusing on resolving emotional and behavioral problems by changing irrational beliefs into more rational ones.

Cognitive-Behavioral

A psychotherapeutic approach that addresses dysfunctional emotions, behaviors, and cognitions through a goal-oriented, systematic process.

Insight Therapy

A form of psychotherapy aimed at increasing a patient’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses.

Aaron Beck

A psychiatrist known as the father of cognitive therapy, which focuses on changing unhelpful thinking patterns to improve emotional regulation and develop personal coping strategies.