1 August 2022

CNWL’s Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones OBE spoke at The Royal College of Psychiatrist's President’s Prestigious Lecture last week.

At the event, Prof Bowden-Jones discussed Breaking Free: How to Stop Gambling – a new self-help book that she contributed to, and which acts as a guide for those who know or think they might have a problem with gambling.

Estimates suggest that about one percent of the UK population suffers from a severe gambling addiction, with some two million more at risk of developing worsening problems. This new workbook uses a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy-approach to help readers take control of their addiction, as well as offering advice to the family and friends of those with gambling issues. 

Professor Bowden-Jones also spoke about the work of the Gambling Related Harm All Parliamentary Group and how gambling addiction might be more effectively tackled in the future.

You can view the lecture in full using the video player below.