1. RAPELI- COMMUNITY Outpatient Community for gambling and dependency problems

2. PROJECT YEARS 2005-2007 FUNDED BY A FINNISH SLOT MACHINE COMPANY (RAY = SMA) TO CREATE A TREATMENT MODEL FOR PEOPLE WITH GAMBLING PROBLEMS

3. BASIC IDEAS TRAINING SELF-EVALUATION PEER SUPPORT STAFF AS TRAINERS/ SUPERVISORS

4. STRUCTURE TRAINING COURSES (mo-fri 9-12) TC (12-7 pm) OPEN DOORS & EVENING MEETINGS (tuesdays and thursdays 4pm-8pm) SOME WEEK-END SEMINARS

5. WEEKLY ROTATING TRAINING THEMES 1. VALUES, ATTITUDES AND EMPATHY SKILLS 2. NEW PERSPECTIVE TO OLD PROBLEMS 3. DEPENDENCY AND HOLISTIC MAN 4. INTERPERSONAL SKILLS AND CO-OPERATION

6. TC DAILY & WEEKLY EVALUATION & FEED-BACK IN GROUPS ACUPUNCTURE GROUPS ART-THERAPY NLP FIELD-TRIPS etc.

7. CLIENTS CHRACTERISTICS 95 TRAINING PERIODS 81 CLIENTS MORE THAN 70 PLAY SLOT MACHINES (primary problem for 50 of them) CRISIS OR CHANGE IN LIFE HAS TRIGGERED PROBLEMATIC GAMING GUILT, SECRETIVE BEHAVIOUR, ISOLATION, LONELINESS

8. STATISTICS (type of transaction)

9. STATISTICS (sex)

10. STATISTICS (age)

11. Effects DURING TREATMENT GAMING WAS MINIMAL OR THERE WAS NO GAMING AT ALL IN THE END OF TREATMENT PERIOD 60 % of clients felt that both their spiritual and psychological situation had improved 50 % felt that both physical and social situation had improved 85 % felt that their attitude towards gaming had changed much or totally (points 4 or 5 in the scale of 1-5 )

12. THE EFFECTS APPEAR MOSTLY IN CAPABILITY TO CONTROL ONE´S GAMING LOOSING TOUCH IN GAMING FINDING GAMING REPULSIVE AND VAIN

13. FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONNAIRE 1/2 YEAR AFTER TREATMENT PERIOD 49 HAS BEEN SENT OUT (by May 07) 35 HAS BEEN ANSWERED AND RETURNED (71%) (by may 07)

14. CHANGES IN GAMING 24 (of 30) HAD GAMED ONLY VERY LITTLE (every now and then lottery etc. ) 6 (of 30) DID NOT GAME AT ALL (in 3 months time before the follow-up questionnaire)

15. CHANGES Of THOSE WHO HAD GAMED VERY LITTLE (24 of 30) DECREASE IN GAMING –7 ESTIMATED 25-40 % DECREASE –7 ESTIMATED 40-60 % DECREASE –10 ESTIMATED 80-90 % DECREASE

16. CHANGES IN INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS 22 FELT RELATIONSHIPS HAD IMPROVED 10 FELT RELATIONSHIPS HAD STAYED THE SAME 3 FELT RELATIONSHIPS HAD GONE FOR WORSE