Given what you know about problem gambling and clinical practice, what do you think is the best way to identify whether clients who disclose they gamble have these misperceptions? What are some ways you could challenge those beliefs? What would be some of challenges you might encounter?

Gamblers have may erroneous cognitions about luck and randomness. Those include:

The Illusion of control (believing you can somehow control the outcome of a random event)
Biased evaluation (believing you have a winning system even though it cant account for random events)
Near miss and near win (believing when you almost hit a jackpot your close to winning when what you see on the machine is not related to the number combinations in the random number generator)
Superstition (belief that if you push the button a certain way or wear your favorite top or bring a lucky doll or pick a lottery number with your childs birthdate youre more likely to win)
Losses disguised as wins (when youre really losing but bells or lights or some machine feature makes you think youre winning)
Given what you know about problem gambling and clinical practice, what do you think is the best way to identify whether clients who disclose they gamble have these misperceptions? What are some ways you could challenge those beliefs? What would be some of challenges you might encounter?

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