New Course: The Hidden Disease — Treatment & Peer Support for Gambling Disorder

There's a name for the behavioral health condition that hides in plain sight, gets missed in almost every intake, and carries one of the highest suicide rates of any disorder we treat: Gambling Disorder. Clinicians know how to screen for substance use. Peer workers know how to spot the signs of a mental health crisis. Almost nobody is trained to ask the one question that would catch a gambling problem before it costs someone everything — because nobody taught us to ask it.

That's the gap this course was built to close.

The Hidden Disease: Treatment & Peer Support for Gambling Disorder is now available. It's designed for seasoned peer workers who are already doing the hard work of supporting people through substance use disorder and mental illness — and who are ready to add one more lens to how they screen, refer, and intervene.

Why it matters

Gambling Disorder rarely travels alone. It shows up alongside substance use disorder, depression, anxiety, and other mental illness far more often than most of us realize, and treatment for those co-occurring conditions can move forward for years without anyone naming the gambling problem underneath it. That silence has a cost: people with gambling disorder die by suicide at rates far higher than the general population. This course exists so fewer of those cases get missed.

What you'll walk away with

By the end of the course, you'll be able to describe the difference between responsible and problem gambling, recognize three high-risk populations, name the early warning signs before a crisis hits, and actually use two real screening tools — not just know they exist. You'll also work through the barriers that keep people with gambling disorder from getting support, and how to implement peer support specifically built around this population.

And yes — it covers your ethics hours

Here's the part that makes this an easy yes if you're staring down a renewal deadline: this course carries 6 hours of Ethics CE, which most states require to renew your license or certification. If you've ever hit the wire looking for an ethics course that wasn't a recycled lecture on the same three case studies everyone's already seen, this is the one to bookmark. You get real, substantive ethics content — built around a condition you're genuinely going to encounter in your caseload — instead of hours you're just checking a box to get.

Who this is for

Clinicians and seasoned peer support workers who work with individuals affected by substance use disorder and mental illness, and who want to close a gap most training programs still skip entirely.

Ready to get started? [Enroll here https://choicesrecoverytrainings.com/item/6/gambling-disorder-and-peers-support/]