15-17 September 2025, Warsaw, Poland
12th International Scientific Conference
Gambling Disorder & Other Behavioural Addictions
Conference programme
11:00 - 13:00. Plenary Session I
Opening of the conference
Official speeches
Effectiveness of existing measures to prevent online gaming and gambling addiction and new innovative approaches
Thomas Kattau, International Drug Policy Academy, Syracuse University
Protection of gambling participants
Grzegorz Skowronek, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce and Paweł Jareniowski, National Revenue Administration, Poland
Inspection and Guidelines Officer Unit 105
Superintendent Ilan Malka, Israel Police
13:00 - 14:00. Break
Lunch break.
14:00 - 16:00. Plenary Session II
A systematic review of longitudinal studies on the temporal stability of behavioural addictions: The effects of methodology, analytical approach and recommendations for future research
Piotr Luszuk, University of Gdańsk, Poland
Problem gambling and its relation to temporal discounting: secondary analysis from the Winbackcontrol.ch study
Michael P. Schaub, Swiss Research Institute for Public Health and Addiction ISGF, Switzerland
Neither “Gaming” nor “Gambling”: Psychological and social risks of “loot box” games
Antonio Molina Fernández, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Risky use of loot boxes among the Polish online gamers – psychological and contextual explanatory factors
Bernadeta Lelonek-Kuleta, Andrzej Cudo, Rafał Bartczuk, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
16:00 - 16:30. Break
Coffee break
16:30 - 18:00. Plenary Session III
Speech (online)
Mark Griffiths, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Addressing gambling harms among women: Leveraging lessons from the wider field of gender and health
Daria Ukhova, University of Glasgow i Fulvia Prever, Women Gambling Project-SUN(N)COOP, Italy
Prevention Professionals Specialization through EUPC in Portugal: National Challenges in Prevention Strategy
Susana Henriques, Universidade Aberta de Portugal
Natacha Torres da Silva, IPDJ – Instituto Português do Desporto e Juventude, Portugal
Trauma and the risk of developing gambling and alcohol use disorders
Nina Ogińska-Bulik, University of Lodz, Poland
18:00. Dinner
Dinner
9:00 - 11:00. Plenary Session IV
Gambling mindset as a barrier to intervention in gambling venues
Alexander Tomei, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Switzerland
A qualitative investigation of the feasibility and acceptability of Lower Risk Gambling Guidelines
Michael Egerer, Centre for Research on Addiction, Control, and Governance CEACG, University of Helsinki, Finland
Harm reduction in gambling, gaming and trading online
Luca Ciuffreda, Cooperativa Sociale Alice Onlus, Italy
Norway as a pioneer of good practices in the area of counteracting gambling addiction at the CSR level, i.e. the involvement of companies offering gambling games in preventive activities
Maja Ruszpel, Inspiratornia Foundation, Poland
11:00 - 11:30. Break
Coffee break
11:30 - 13:30. Plenary Session V
Problematic overstudying: What do we know about an early form of work addiction?
Paweł Atroszko, University of Gdańsk, Poland
How to Advance Studies on Work Addiction: Insights from Global Research
Edyta Charzyńska, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland and Paweł Atroszko, University of Gdańsk, Poland
Research on the disorder associated with the Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD)
Ewelina Kowalewska, Centre for Postgraduate Medical Education, Poland
Early Maladaptive Schemas and Online Pornography Use: A Cross-sectional Study
Claudio Vieira, Nottingham Trent University, Great Britain
13:30 - 14:30. Break
Lunch break
14:30 - 16:30. Plenary Session VI
A child on the Internet 3.0
Magdalena Rowicka, The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Poland
Problematic Smartphone Use in Preschool Children
Attila Szabo, Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary and ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Assessing Early Exposure: Longitudinal Insights into Risk Factors of Early Childhood Internet Gaming Disorder
Soo-Young Bhang, Department of Psychiatry, Nowon Eulji University Hospital, Eulji University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Types of loneliness and problematic Internet use: cross-sectional and longitudinal studies among Polish Internet users entering adulthood
Maciej Barański, Ryszard Poprawa, University of Wrocław, Poland
16:30 - 16:45. Break
Coffee break
16:45 - 18:45. Plenary Session VII
Session dedicated to the EVAL i EVAL 2.0 project.
Magdalena Rowicka, The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Poland,
Bernadeta Lelonek-Kuleta, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Jolanta Jarczyńska, Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland
and invited representatives of the institutions
18:45. Dinner
Dinner
9:00 - 11:00. Plenary Session VIII
From virtual risks to real solutions: how prevention program 'tools for modern times’ shapes socio-emotional skills for responsible online behaviour
Dora Dodig Hundric, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Croatia
The prevalence of gambling among school youth and preventive activities
Janusz Sierosławski, Social Research and Initiatives Workshop, Poland
The Adolescents’ Digital Technology Interactions and Importance (ADTII) Scale – a proposal for a new scale to assess the importance of digital media in the lives of adolescents
Jolanta Jarczyńska, Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland
Personality and temperamental determinants of young people’s use of the digital world
Maciej Michalak, Ewa Wojtynkiewicz, Karolina Głogowska, Magdalena Miotk-Mrozowska, Jakub Hartung-Wójciak, Jakub Jankowski, Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland
11:00 - 11:15. Break
Coffee break
11:15 - 12:45. Plenary Session IX
Differences between computer gaming disorder and alcohol use disorder in early maladaptive schemas
Andrzej Cudo, University of Warsaw/John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Scrolling Toward Self-Love? The Impact of Online Fitness Content on Body Image
Tereza Merhoutová, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
The need for Pro-Activity, Positive Play. Personalized Approach and Proof of Evidence
Pieter Remmers, Assissa- G4, The Netherlands
12:45 - 13:00. Break
Coffee break
13:00 - 14:30. Plenary Session X
Dialectical behavioral therapy in the treatment of people with behavioral addiction problems
Marta Sidorowicz-Szczecińska, Addiction and Co-dependency Therapy Clinic, Poland
Recovery from gambling disorder in outpatient treatment
Adam Kurilla, Centre for Treatment of Drug Dependencies Bratislava, Slovakia
Responding to treatment challenges of gambling addiction for criminal offenders: the development, implementation and evaluation of the structured group and individual psychosocial treatment
Neven Ricijas, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Croatia
Conclusions and closing of the conference
14:30. Lunch
Lunch
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