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Jim Orford
Researcher at University of Birmingham
Publications - 32
Citations - 2182
Jim Orford is an academic researcher from University of Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Coping (psychology). The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 32 publications receiving 2061 citations. Previous affiliations of Jim Orford include King's College London.
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Defining the online gambler and patterns of behaviour integration: evidence from the British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2010
TL;DR: The British Gambling Prevalence Survey (BGPS2010) as mentioned in this paper examined how people gamble and ways in which online and offline gambling are integrated, and found that the majority of online gamblers were also offline gamblers, and a broader taxonomy of gambling subgroups was evident.
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The clients' perspective on change during treatment for an alcohol problem: qualitative analysis of follow-up interviews in the UK Alcohol Treatment Trial.
Jim Orford,Ray Hodgson,Alex Copello,Bev John,Melanie Smith,Rachel Black,Kate Fryer,Linda Handforth,Tina Alwyn,Cicely Kerr,Gill Thistlethwaite,Gary P. Slegg +11 more
TL;DR: Models of change should be broadened so that treatment is seen as a complex system of parts, facilitating a nexus of cognitive, social and behavioural changes, embedded within a broader system of events and processes catalysing change.
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PGSI and DSM-IV in the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey: reliability, item response, factor structure and inter-scale agreement
TL;DR: This article examined the psychometric properties of the two problem gambling scales used in the survey: the Canadian Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) and a DSM-IV-based scale.
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The families of problem drug users: a study of 50 close relatives
TL;DR: The research described in this paper resulted from a collaborative multi-centre study of the relatives of problem drug users involving six practitioners and researchers, in four centres within the south-west of England, showing that large numbers of these relatives reported many negative experiences.
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Family members of relatives with alcohol, drug and gambling problems: a set of standardized questionnaires for assessing stress, coping and strain.
TL;DR: A set of standard questionnaire measures derived from an explicit model of the family in relation to excessive drinking, drug taking or gambling may have a role to play in correcting the current neglect of the needs of family members, estimated to be in the region of nearly a million adults in Britain alone.