Best possible odds

the long version

"Written by two leading national experts in the field, Best Possible Odds is the first comprehensive, step-by-step guide to the assessment and treatment of compulsive gamblers and their families. Based upon the authors' extensive firsthand experience, it arms mental health professionals with a rational framework for making sense of the often puzzling behaviors of compulsive gamblers, providing an array of tools and techniques for successful interventions."--BOOK JACKET.