Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, problem gambling and metacognition

Titolo Rivista INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY TRAUMA STUDIES
Autori/Curatori Maria Paola Boldrini, Gabriele Caselli, Marcantonio M. Spada
Anno di pubblicazione 2016 Fascicolo 2016/1
Lingua Inglese Numero pagine 10 P. 90-99 Dimensione file 184 KB
DOI 10.3280/IJM2016-001009
Il DOI è il codice a barre della proprietà intellettuale: per saperne di più clicca qui

Qui sotto puoi vedere in anteprima la prima pagina di questo articolo.

Se questo articolo ti interessa, lo puoi acquistare (e scaricare in formato pdf) seguendo le facili indicazioni per acquistare il download credit. Acquista Download Credits per scaricare questo Articolo in formato PDF

Anteprima articolo

FrancoAngeli è membro della Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA)associazione indipendente e non profit per facilitare (attraverso i servizi tecnologici implementati da CrossRef.org) l’accesso degli studiosi ai contenuti digitali nelle pubblicazioni professionali e scientifiche

Over the last twenty years meta-cognitive theory has been applied to the conceptualization and treatment of psychological distress (Wells, 2009). In this paper we consider the evidence linking Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and problem gambling. This is followed by an overview of the role of metacognition in psychopathology and its specific application to the conceptualisation and treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. We then proceed to discuss the possible role of metacognition in the relationship between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and problem gambling, and conclude by considering the clinical implications of metacognitive therapy for the transdiagnostic treatment of these co-occuring conditions.

Negli ultimi venti anni la teoria metacognitiva è stata applicata per la concettualizzazione e trattamento del disagio psicologico (Wells, 2009). In questo lavoro abbiamo preso in considerazione ciò che collega Post-Traumatico da Stress Disorder e gioco d’azzardo problematico. Questo è seguito da una panoramica della letteratura sul ruolo della metacognizione nella psicopatologia e la sua applicazione specifica a concettualizzazione e trattamento del Disturbo Post Traumatico da Stress. Sarà discusso il possibile ruolo della metacognizione nella relazione tra disturbo da stress post-traumatico e gioco d’azzardo problematico. In conclusione saranno considerate le implicazioni cliniche della terapia metacognitiva per il trattamento transdiagnostico di queste condizioni quando si verificano congiuntamente.

Keywords:Metacognizione, terapia metacognitiva, PTSD, gioco d’azzardo problematico, comorbilità.

  1. American Psychiatric Association (2013). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed). Washington DC, US.
  2. Blanco C., Ibáñez A., Blanco-Jerez C., Baca-Garcia E. and Sáiz-Ruiz J. (2001). Plasma testosterone and pathological gambling. Psychiatry Research, 105:117-121.
  3. Blaszczynski A., Steel Z. and McConaghy N. (1997). Impulsivity in pathological gambling: The antisocial impulsivist. Addiction, 92(1):75-87.
  4. Breslau N. and Schultz L. (2013). Neuroticism and post-traumatic stress disorder: a prospective invetigation. Psychological Medicine, 43(8):1697-702. DOI: 10.10017/S0033291712002632
  5. Butler G., Wells A. and Dewick H. (1995). Differential effects of worry and imagery after exposure to a stressful stimulus: a pilot study. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 23(1):45–56. DOI: 10.1017/S1352465800017628
  6. Caselli G., Ferla M., Mezzaluna C., Rovetto F. and Spada M.M. (2012). Desire thinking across the continuum of drinking behaviour. European Addiction Research, 18(2):64-69. DOI: 10.1159/000333601
  7. Caselli G., Nikčević A., Fiore F., Mezzaluna C. and Spada M.M. (2012). Desire thinking across the continuum of nicotine dependence. Addiction Research and Theory, 20(5):382-88. DOI: 10.3109/16066359.2011.644842
  8. Caselli G., Soliani M. and Spada M.M. (2013). The effect of desire thinking on craving: an experimental investigation. Psychology of Addictive Behaviours, 27(1):301-6. DOI: 10.1037/a0027981
  9. Caselli G. and Spada M.M. (2010). Metacognitions in desire thinking: a preliminary investigation. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 38(5):629-637. DOI: 10.1017/S1352465810000317
  10. Caselli G. and Spada M.M. (2011). The Desire Thinking Questionnaire: development and psychometric properties. Addictive Behaviors, 36(11):1061-1067. DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2011.06.013
  11. Caselli G. and Spada M.M. (2013). The Metacognitions about Desire Thinking Questionnaire: Development and psychometric properties. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 69(12):1284-98. DOI: 10.1002/jclp.21999
  12. Caselli G. and Spada M.M. (2015). Desire thinking: What is it and what drives it? Addictive Behaviors, 44:71-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.07.021
  13. Crockford D.N. and el-Guebaly N. (1998). Psychiatric Comorbidity in Pathological Gambling: A Critical Review. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 43(1):43-50.
  14. Dickerson M. and Baron E. (2000). Contemporary issues and future directions for research into pathological gambling. Addiction, 95(8):1145–1159.
  15. Flavell J.H. (1979). Metacognition and cognitive monitoring: A new area of cognitive-developmental inquiry. American Psychologist, 34(10):906-11.
  16. Fernie B.A., Caselli G., Giustina L., Donato G., Marcotriggiani A. and Spada M.M. (2014). Desire Thinking as a predictor of gambling. Addictive Behaviours, 39(4):793-796. DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.01.010
  17. Getty H.A., Watson J. and Frisch G.R. (2000). A comparison of depression and styles of coping in male and female GA members and controls. Journal of Gambling Studies, 16(4):377–391.
  18. Hand I. (1998). Pathological gambling: A negative state model and its implications for behavioral treatments. CNS Spectrum, 3:58-71.
  19. Harkness A.R., Tellegen A. and Waller N. (1995). Differential convergence of self-report and informant data for multidimensional personality questionnaire traits: Implications for the construct of negative emotionality. Journal of Personality Assessment, 64(1):185–204.
  20. Ledgerwood D.M., Alessi S.M., Phoenix N. and Petry N.M. (2009). Behavioral assessment of impulsivity in pathological gamblers with and without substance use disorder histories versus healthy controls. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 105(1-2):89-96. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.200906.011
  21. Ledgerwood D.M. and Petry N.M. (2006). Post traumatic stress disorder symptoms in treatment seeking pathological gamblers. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 19(3):411–6.
  22. Ledgerwood D.M. and Milosevic A. (2013). Clinical and Personality Characteristics Associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Problem and Pathological Gamblers Recruited from the Community. Journal of Gambling Studies, 31(2):501-12. DOI: 10.1007/s10899-013-9426-1.
  23. Lindberg A., Fernie B.A. and Spada M.M. (2011). Metacognitions in problem gambling. Journal of Gambling Studies, 27(1):73-81. DOI: 10.1007/s10899
  24. McCormick R.A., Taber J.I. and Kruedelbach N. (1989). The relationship between attributional style and post-traumatic stress disorder in addicted patients. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2(4):477-87. DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490020410
  25. Miller M.W., Greif J.L. and Smith A.A. (2003). Multidimensional personality questionnaire profiles of veterans with traumatic combat exposure: Externalizing and internalizing subtypes. Psychological Assessment, 15(2):205-215.
  26. Najavits L.M., Meyer T., Johnson K.M. and Korn D. (2011). Pathological gambling and posttraumatic stress disorder: A study of the co-morbidity versus each alone. Journal of Gambling Studies, 27(4):663-683. DOI: 10.1007/s10899
  27. Petry N.M., Stinson F.S. and Grant B.F. (2005). Comorbidity of DSM-IV pathological gambling and other psychiatric disorders: Results from the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 66(5):564-574.
  28. Potenza M. (2006). Should addictive disorders include non-substance- related conditions? Addiction, 101(suppl.1):142–151.
  29. Spada M.M., Caselli G., Nikčević A.V. and Wells A. (2015). Metacognition in addictive behaviors. Addictive Behaviors, 44:9-15. DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.08.002
  30. Spada M.M., Caselli G. and Wells A. (2012). The metacognitive therapy approach to problem drinking. In: Hayes S. and Levin M. (Eds.), Mindfulness and Acceptance for Addictive Behaviors: Applying Contextual CBT to Substance Abuse and Behavioral Addictions. New York (US): New Harbringer.
  31. Spada M.M., Caselli G. and Wells A. (2013). A Triphasic Metacognitive Formulation of Problem Drinking. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 20(6):494-500. DOI: 10.1002/ccp.1791
  32. Spada M.M., Giustina L., Rolandi S., Fernie B.A. and Caselli G. (2014). Profiling metacognition in gambling disorder. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 43(5):614-22. DOI: 10.1017/S1352465814000101
  33. Spada M.M. and Wells A. (2009). A metacognitive model of problem drinking. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 16(5):383-93. DOI: 10.1002/ccp.620
  34. Specker S.M., Carlson G.A., Edmonson K.M., Johnson P.E. and Marcotte M. (1996). Psychopathology in pathological gamblers seeking treatment. Journal of Gambling Studies, 12(1):67-81. DOI: 10.1007/BF01533190
  35. Stewart S.H. and Zack M. (2008). Development and psychometric evaluation of a three-dimensional Gambling Motives Questionnaire. Addiction, 103(7):1110-7. DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2008.02235.x
  36. Wells A. (2000). Emotional Disorders and Metacognition: Innovative Cognitive Therapy. Chichester (UK): Wiley.
  37. Wells A. (2009). Metacognitive Therapy for Anxiety and Depression. New York, (US): Guilford Press.
  38. Wells A. (2013). Advances in Metacognitive Therapy. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 6:186-201. DOI: 10.1521/ijct.2013.6.2.186
  39. Wells A. and Colbear J.S. (2012). Treating posttraumatic stress disorder with metacognitive therapy: A preliminary controlled trial. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 68(4):373-81. DOI: 10.1002/jclp.20871
  40. Wells A. and Matthews G. (1994). Attention and Emotion: A Clinical Perspective. Hove (UK): Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  41. Wells A. and Matthews G. (1996). Modelling cognition in emotional disorder: The S-REF model. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 34(11-12):881-8. DOI: 10.1016/S005-7967(96)00050-2
  42. Wells A. and Papageorgiou C. (1995). Worry and the incubation of intrusive images following stress. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 33(5):579-83.
  43. Wells A. and Sembi S. (2004a). Metacognitive-focused therapy for PTSD: A preliminary investigation of a new brief treatment. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 35(4):307-18.
  44. Wells A. and Sembi S. (2004b). Metacognitive-focused therapy for PTSD: A core treatment manual. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 11:365-377. DOI: 10.1016/s1077-7229(04)80053-1
  45. Wells A., Walton D., Lovell K. and Proctor D. (2015). Metacognitive Therapy versus prolonged exposure in adults with chronic Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A parallel randomized controlled trial. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 39:70-80. DOI: 10.1007/s10608-014-96.36-6
  46. Wells A., Welford M., Fraser J., King P., Mendel E., Wisely J., Knight A. and Rees D. (2008). Chronic PTSD treated with metacognitive therapy: An open trial. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 15(1):85-92. DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2006.11.005

  • The relationship of internet addiction symptom severity with posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and impulsivity among Turkish university students Bilge Evren, Ercan Dalbudak, Cuneyt Evren, Secil Ozen, in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology /2019 pp.83
    DOI: 10.1080/24750573.2018.1505422

Maria Paola Boldrini, Gabriele Caselli, Marcantonio M. Spada, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, problem gambling and metacognition in "INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY TRAUMA STUDIES" 1/2016, pp 90-99, DOI: 10.3280/IJM2016-001009