Disclaimer: The information provided herein should not be used for diagnosis or treatment of any medical or mental condition. A state licensed clinician should be consulted for diagnosis and treatment of any and all medical or mental conditions. Dr. Geffner does not warrant that the information is free from all errors and omission and does not recommend, advise or suggest that any physician or other health care provider use the information as a sole resource for diagnostic or educational purposes. These questionnaires are provided for informational purposes only and are not intended to take the place of a complete psychological evaluation. Completing these questionnaires is insufficient to make, confirm, or rule out a diagnosis. In order to make a diagnosis a compete history of the gambling behavior should be taken by a professional clinician. ____________________________________________________________________________
In this section you can take one or two questionnaires that will help you assess for a possible gambling problem. I have not yet been able to design the questionnaires so that you can take them online, so it might be easier to print them, this is more of an issue for the SOGS than it is for the DSM-IV™
If you have an appointment with me please email me prior to your session and download the entire battery of assessment tools that I use for screening of various mental disorders (depression, bipolar, OCD, ADHD). The questionnaires provided here are part of my intake process so you don't need to complete these versions.
In particular, it is not possible for a person taking these questionnaires to use them to demonstrate to themselves or another person that they do not have a problem with gambling because it is far too easy to manipulate your responses in a manner that will minimize the total score.
The South Oaks Gambling Screen (called the SOGS) is a wonderful assessment tool that was designed by Dr. Henry Lesieur and Sheila Blume and has been used in hundreds of research studies. It is offered here based on the author's generous and kind permission to reproduce it as long as it is never modified in any manner or used for commercial purposes, their generous approach to this tool is greatly appreciated.
To take the DSM-IV or the South Oaks Gambling Screen click here: SOGS use the tabs on the right side of this page.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
These questionnaires be can easily manipulated to underestimate the problem if you minimize and rationalize your responses. Please take these in an open manner. If an answer is partially correct then, in most cases, it would be correct to endorse it rather than reject it. Try not to get into a mental debate with the questions or get overly focused on details of the questions. In my office I have see a lot of people focus on a small part of the question and then reject it when they should not have. Here are a few examples and also a few other places where I have seen people get confused. You probably would want to take the DSM and then come back to read this list.
