Topic: Gambling awareness for adolescents - page 4. (Read 607 times)

They can't be aware of this if even their parents don't even care about them, as you've said, the family is largely to be blamed in this scenario because they are the one responsible for the child in their formative and teenage years.

Yeah, I think even in our country we have this kind of program, but not sure how effective it is though. The pandemic has somewhat increase in record numbers the gamblers around the world. For example, we have this "online sabong", that is making a lot of young people getting into gambling. And it's a dilemma for our government, because according to the President, he allow it because they needed money to sustain them in this pandemic. Anyway, wish that this initiative could really be emulate by other nations.

If like says its name, it really educates young people to gambling then it can't be a bad thing. But if it's just a sanctimonious program rehashing gambling is bad, gambling is the devil like a religious speech, then it will only bring hate without efficiency.

Lol. You are right.

To me, educating young people to warn them of the dangers of gambling reminds me of educating them to warn them of the dangers of drugs. It was a program that had little, if any, effect. Perhaps a general approach to the risks of life would be better, as Hydrogen comments.

The problem today is the new technologies, which allow impulsive young people to play at the click of a button from anywhere (this could be applied to gambling as well as forex etc).

As far as the effectiveness of this gambling education is concerned will always depends on the person/teacher's way of introducing what gambling is and how he's going to pave his way on things to discuss that discourages the students to get involved on irresponsible gambling in the future. Though the aim is to educate, but it's always inevitable for an adult not to get hooked up with gambling once he had an enjoyable experience. So, their might be a little bit words of discouragement to gamble.
The best possible way to tackle this is to educate the young students how to manage their finances first, and how to save for the future, then everything will follow suit when they knew how important it is to save and be responsible for all the expenses made in a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.

Totally agree, they should be the one responsible for creating a contributing member of the society. And they're the one's that molds the kid in their formative years. Also, we need to fix the education system because it's not catering everyone since it's a one size fits all style of teaching.

Showing the downsides of gambling is good given that it could quickly escalate and affect someone's life, its something that should be taken seriously because once you're in that situation it's very difficult to break the habit.

As what yoshi mentioned this awareness might not fully be effective in stopping future gamblers but imo it's better to do something rather than nothing at all even though it won't help every adolescent it's still a good stepping stone to learn how disruptive gambling addiction could be in someone's life.

I read about the educational programs that certain schools in Ireland are doing, for young people.

I can only draw one conclusion as said by: @James Grimes.

This is a very important point to determine whether the program is successful or not, the meaning of the word above is broad.

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For me for this program to run well there are factors that must be considered.
1. The parent factor, this is the main and most important role, schools and parents must work together in raising awareness of gambling for young people.
2. Factors of promiscuity, environment, friends and economy, at school alone are not enough to realize them about the risks of gambling, where children with promiscuity by wanting to have more money, they will make instant income for their income in promiscuity, what's more now online gambling has mushroomed on the internet.
3. The basic factor, if young people have studied gambling what else they have played and made a win, then the desire will appear again outside of school and want to repeat it and try it again.

If these factors are still in the minds of young people, it is very difficult to implement a gambling awareness program for them, the solution is to prevent these factors regularly and filter the internet for those young people.

I think it's a little difficult to do a gambling awareness education program for young people, in terms of development, promiscuity, friends, environment, especially for a developing country like Northern Ireland.

I like it. If it cannot be prevented thru force then just educate them. It's a different era of kids now and you don't want them being a rebels just because you didn't agree with them. I think just the proper lesson will make them think twice about gambling in an early stage of their life.
Traditional discipline is not working anymore because gambling sites are accessible thru their smartphones and a lot of gambling sites just ask if you are 18+ you will just have to pick YES and you are in.
Perhaps there should also be an education for parents on how they could handle this situations in a peaceful manner.

UK is really serious in dealing with gambling in their region , they are facing the gambling area with dedication and now even for youngsters they are getting ready earlier .
While other region is even pushing gambling the younger the players is , because those days are the stage that gamblers can become addicted and this will be the advantage and profiting for the site.

It is a good initiative from them to increase the awareness from the young generation about the danger of gambling.
Maybe it is too early to say that but at least, it can give the young generation can share/discuss/tell their story to the right community that can help them to solve their problem in gambling.
That program can also help to solve the other addicting problem that happens in the young generation so they can get the solution and not keep it for themselves.
If it succeeds, the other city or country will try to reduplicate or study more details about that to help the young generation.
In the long-term, hopefully, it can reduce the number of people who are addicted to gambling, especially to the young generation.

Everything that is aimed at awareness and good things in my opinion is a very noble concern because their initiative realizes that gambling is not good for them, and effective or not at least can minimize gambling addicts.
and I'm sure such ideas will evolve over time and will improve what needs to be added and new ways to improve their plans to be effective and successful and I really support it and for the future of young people.

I do think it is better to have some sort of initiative rather than just leaving it unnoticed. The fact that UK government has recognized the potential risks and harm of gambling says a lot about its impact on the health and livelihood of the youth on their country. With this kind of program, while it may not completely prevent gambling addiction, it provides an extra layer of security against it.

Nowadays, lots of programs have been created against gambling addiction. There are also programs which promote gambling awareness especially to the youth in which their curiosity might spark their interest on it.

This is a good thing. It is good that there is such a charity in the UK that is spreading awareness about gambling and how it could impact people's lives. It is also very strategic that the targeted age is adolescence. These are the youth who are about to leave childhood and face adulthood. It would be very important that they are already formed properly before taking responsibilities for themselves and their personal lives. Young people should know about gambling implications before becoming gamblers themselves. 

I hope other countries will follow this.
Always remember that "Prevention is always better than cure". Especially in gambling, we all know how risky it is and what is the effect of it for those people who don't have control, it will rekt your life.
With discouraging gambling to people, it will help them to avoid and not try gambling for sure, good move.

Well, it's a good initiative, just that, it stays there, as an initiative. Its effectiveness is still to be questioned and honestly, it doesn't really look like it's going to be any effective. It's for a fact that teaching this stuff in schools would obviously get traction since it is in a school (from what I understood anyway) but it doesn't mean its effects would last long. Heck, I can't even expect them to actually remember the program contents after a week or so. I do hope that the program is effective, but really, as someone who was a kid back then, it doesn't really allure me that much.             

I think this is a good step towards the result of a less addictive person who will gonna lead himself to destruction after he loses everything in gambling. they will become aware of what they are about to do because, in this awareness, they will gonna learn about different scenarios and events where some people have miserably failed their life because they went overboard about it.

It's good for me. At least not the harsh part where they will be stay away by concern people out of gambling. It's good to have that subject to create awareness because there's no way they can't encounter gambling in their everyday life.

Not totally can result on a decrease number of young ones being addicted but that plan will help people to understand the risks they are going to face once they enter gambling and the possible events they can actually experience, good or worst.

For now, what they need to see is the effectiveness of the program since personal experiences are different when talking about gambling. I'm not against with this idea but they should put someone who has an experience of gambling that has finally change coming from rehabilitation center. I think this is the most effective way to let them learn the exact experience so that they could be more aware about the possibilities of what will going to happen to them if they ever engage in gambling activity.

At least they were all aware already during their adolescence that might be enough for them to decide what they would do with their life in the future.

And that educational programmes tell people that slots, roulette, blackjack, etc are all rigged and it's calculated by casino to give away only 20% of income and other bla bla blas. I say this from personal experience while I know that the real situation is different!
The knowledge program should answer the question - why are people getting addicted to gambling? What's so amazing in it that causes serious addiction, similar to cocaine. Just one parralel, it's easy to say that drugs are bad and it destroy you, etc but why are people getting addicted? No one ever mentions dopamine and other happy hormones and their role in addiction. No one mentions that you are getting addicted because you experience the euphoria thats out of this world and it's unforgettable. And the more you use it, the brain adapts to higher levels of dopamine and this level becomes a new normal for it. Then you are getting depletted and are diving into deep depression. This is that we should explain people, the reason why gambling is addictive and the reason why we should gamble responsible and how to technicues if we want to really get the desired effect from this program.