Webinar: Disordered Gamblers: False Gods and Broken Promises

Date: March 11, 2026     Time: 10:00am – 11:30am
Cost: $15.00     CEU Hours: 1.5

This presentation will focus on the false promises and ideas disordered gamblers believe and the motivations they have to begin, continue, and relapse with gambling. Beginning with industry promises and continuing through the thoughts and beliefs individuals have around gambling and how those same beliefs can cause individuals seeking recovery to relapse and gamble again.

Course Objectives:

1. Participants will begin to look into the minds of disordered gamblers and look at the changes on spirituality and values they may experience.
2. Participants will begin to look at potential motivations for gambling and how those motivations many times remain valid in the gamblers mind throughout the rehabilitation process.
3. Participants will get a glimpse into the gamblers past experiences that helped shape early motivations and spirituality and how these early experiences have morphed into the gambling mentality of the patient entering treatment.
4. Participants will be given examples of how to identify faulty spiritual and motivational beliefs and begin to help the patient rehabilitate their beliefs and values.

Presenter Biography
Jerry Bauerkemper, BS, CCGC, past Executive Director of the Nebraska Council on Compulsive Gambling is currently working as a consultant for the Iowa Department of Public Health. Mr. Bauerkemper was the first director of problem gambling (1992-1996) for the state of Nebraska. In addition, he was appointed and served on the Nebraska Commission on Problem Gambling. He served on the Board of Directors for the National Council on Problem Gambling from 2001-2008 and from 2012-2016. Mr. Bauerkemper is a consultant, helping gambling programs recover from the loss of clients and is currently working with the State of Iowa. He also serves on the National Council’s Legislative Committee, where he helps raise awareness of problem gambling in Washington, D.C. Mr. Bauerkemper has been providing counseling to gambling families since 1986. He has published research on the prevalence of problem gambling in the Nebraska Probation Department. He received the “First Step” award in 1999 and the Wisconsin Leadership award in 2016 for his work with problem gamblers. Mr. Bauerkemper is an internationally recognized expert on problem gambling and has provided training throughout the United States and Southeast Asia.