Are they're lying to themselves or others about their gambling or are the amounts of their bets increasing. That Lie-Bet Screen is a perfect segue of any conversation that you're having with one of your clients that you're assessing about money and financial stress and as soon as you catch a whiff of any financial problems, if you simply ask, "Hey, are you lying to yourself or anybody about your gambling," and you can assume if they're having financial problems that there may be a gambler hiding in the closet somewhere, if it's not them, it might be somebody else. And if they say yes to that one, "Oh, well have you noticed the amounts of your bets increasing." Boom, you've got the perfect segue to do more screening and more assessment on the gambling problem. So that's a little gift, you can use that any time. And then a few words about DSM-5.
I want you to get a good look at the cartoon, because I think it is a good humorous rendition of what's going on in our day. This is a snapshot of the DSM-5, the Diagnostic Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders and I want to advise you that if you are about to take a DSM-5 class from anyone, you've been looking online, you wanna take a cheap, quick and dirty, get something off the internet, DSM-5 class, which I think everyone should do in their push for time. Do not take a class that says it's about DSM-V because that person did not pay attention to the fact that the new DSM-5 is using Arabic numerals, not Roman numerals anymore, (laughs) so if you wanna be on top of things, it's DSM Arabic numeral five, not Roman numeral V. It's kinda cute that the idea behind the cartoon there is that anything that could go wrong in any of our lives could possibly be mentioned (laughs) in the DSM as a mental disorder. Thus we are having more and more discussions about process addiction and behavioral addiction and gambling made the cut in the DSM-5 with all the 15 years of planning and discussion about what should go in DSM-5, we, I consider it we because I take some ownership having some expertise in this area, we were very happy when we saw that gambling disorder is the first of the behavioral addictions listed in the DSM-5. We know that there are others that didn't quite make the cut because they didn't have enough research or enough of whatever it was that the committee decided they needed and, frankly, many of us were disappointed about that. I know Denise and I were talking yesterday about it's stunning to me that food addiction did not make the cut because there's so much research and clients behind it. - [Voiceover] This is Denise E. There's a lot of research, I was just reading an article very recently about process addictions and there are several that are still on the drawing board and one of the interesting things about changing to the Arabic numbering system is that my understanding is from Denise Q., is that in the future, rather than rewriting the entire manual, they're going to adapt different sections and so it'll be 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, so they won't be waiting several years before we come out again with another manual because they're behind the times almost before the ink is dry. - [Voiceover] Absolutely. - [Voiceover] And so I think that's going to be extremely valuable and in the future, it might even be helpful if they did it in, kind of a three-ring binder kind of format, rather than having it hardbound and that way you can add in whatever the revisions are. All of the articles that I've been reading recently have talked about how there's a real movement afoot to include food issues, sex addiction and a variety of things, there's people who have problems with overspending, underspending, the financial recovery issues, debt, over and under earners, you know, those kinds of things, so it will be really interesting to see how the field evolves over the next few years.
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