Treating Gambling Today: Clinical Advances and Emerging Challenges
TRAINING FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS – Earn 6 CE Hours!
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When: March 4, 2026 8am-4:30pm
Where: Sandia Resort & Casino Albuquerque, NM 87113
SPEAKERS AND TOPICS:
Join the ICRG and Sandia Resort & Casino for a FREE one-day conference, offering up to 6 Continuing Education Units and providing vital insights and practical tools for professionals addressing gambling-related harms.
Key Takeaways
This conference covers critical topics to empower professionals in their work:
- Evidence-Based Treatment for Gambling Disorders
- Financially Focused Self-Concept and Gambling Risk
- Sports Gambling, Alcohol Use, and Emerging Harm Among Young Adults
- Collectively, the program emphasizes the evolving gambling landscape, comorbid risk factors, and clinically grounded strategies to improve outcomes.
This conference provides attendees with 6 CEUs, meeting the needs of professionals seeking to deepen their knowledge and skills in addiction treatment and responsible gaming practices. Continuing education hours accepted by NAADAC and NBCC. We have applied to NASW-NM for continuing education approval. The ICRG is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The ICRG maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
SCHEDULE
8:00 AM – 8:45 AM:
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:45 AM – 9:00 AM:
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM:
Evidence-Based Psychological Treatment of Gambling Disorder (Dr. Pfund)
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM:
Break
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM:
Financially Focused Self-Concept in Disordered Gambling: Implications for Prevention and Treatment (Dr. Tabri)
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM:
Lunch (provided)
1:15 PM – 2:45 PM:
If It Walks Like a Duck: How Social Sports Wagering, Prediction Markets and Other Apps are Upending the Legal Definition of “Gambling” (Dr. Nower)
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM:
Break
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM:
Sports Gambling, Alcohol Use, and Harm Among College-Age Populations (Dr. McAfee)
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM:
Closing Remarks
4:45 PM:
Conference Concludes
SPEAKERS
Lia Nower, JD, PhD
Professor
Rutgers University
Nick McAfee, PhD
Director of the William Magee Center for AOD and Wellness Education
University of Mississippi
Rory Pfund, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center
Nassim Tabri, PhD
Associate Professor
Carleton University