New Tools about the Interplay Between Youth Gambling and Gaming
Includes a Live Web Event on 04/01/2025 at 2:00 PM (CDT)
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Join us on April 1st, 2025 from 2-3:30 pm CST for a 90 minute training with Deirdre Querney, MSW + Iris Balodis, PhD from Brain Connections.
Video games are hugely popular among youth and emerging adults. Though fun and entertaining, there are risks associated with excessive gaming and with the increasingly blurred lines between gambling and gaming. Brain Connections is a knowledge translation team that develops free, accessible, and engaging products related to the neurobiology of gambling disorder. In 2024, based on popular demand, Iris, Deirdre, and the Brain Connections team created brand new products on the interplay between youth gambling and gaming.
In this webinar, you will learn about the latest Brain Connections products, which include an animated video, a clinical handout, a BE Brief and a gaming primer. We will discuss how you can use these new resources in your work and answer questions you have about youth gambling and gaming neurobiology.
Through this webinar you will:
· Increase your knowledge on the interplay between gambling and gaming
· Learn about gambling and gaming harms related to youth and emerging adults
· Consider how the Brain Connections tools can be used in your setting
· Ask your questions of this experienced team.
This course is accredited for 1.5 hours of CEU for the following categories: COUN II, PREV II, CARS II, CODP I or II, PCGC I or II, CCJP II, CRSS I or II, CPRS I or I, CPRS I or I, MAATP II, CFPP II, ATE, CVSS II, LSW, LCSW, LPC, LCPC.
Deirdre Querney, MSW
Registered Social Worker and Certified Problem Gambling Counsellor
Alcohol, Drug & Gambling Services City of Hamilton, Public Health Services
Deirdre Querney, BA/BSW, MSW, is a Registered Social Worker who has provided outpatient addiction treatment services for the past 23 years at the City of Hamilton’s Alcohol, Drug & Gambling Services. Her clinical experience includes individual counselling, group work and couples/family counselling. Deirdre is certified by the Canadian Problem Gambling Certification Board (CPGCB) and the Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation (CACCF). Since 2003, Deirdre has also been a part-time instructor with McMaster University’s Professional Addiction Studies Program. She has conducted workshops on a variety of topics including Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), problem gambling, relapse prevention and assessment/treatment of addictive behaviour. Deirdre’s research interests, conference talks and publications focus on addiction knowledge translation, the ethical integration of spirituality into addiction treatment and motherhood and addiction.
Iris Balodis, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research, DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University
Iris Balodis, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at McMaster University and Associate Director of the Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research. Her research focuses on motivational processes influencing maladaptive decision-making, including gambling disorder. Iris is a founding member of OGRS (The Ontario Gambling Research Society). She is affiliated with the Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research and a core instructor on the Science of Cannabis courses.
