"Now in its second edition, this book provides a focused, comprehensive overview of up-to-date mental health research, models, and approaches in sport, with expertise from global experts in the field.
Mental health remains a widely growing area in the field of sport psychology, which requires expert guidance and care in promoting effective well-being for athletes, coaches and sport officials. Fully updated throughout, Mental Health and Well-being Interventions in Sport is an indispensable guide for researchers, practitioners and students wanting to understand and implement sport-based intervention processes. This important book adopts an evidenced based approach, discussing the context of the intervention, its design and implementation, and its evaluation and legacy. Exploring areas such as injury, rehabilitation, depression, eating disorders, verbal and physical abuse, and athletic burnout, this insightful volume dissects emerging research into straightforward accessible chapters. Offering a cutting-edge overview of the key issues involved in this burgeoning area, as well as example cases of how sport has been used in extreme environments such as prisons as a method to improve mental health, the book will benefit practitioners, policy makers and researchers.
Written for newcomers and established practitioners across a variety of sports setting and contexts, the authors highlight the need for ""another call to action"" to support the mental health and wellbeing of all involved in sport. Presenting current research, theory and practice in the field, the text is an essential read for researchers, practitioners, and coaches to better understand sport-based intervention processes."
Edited by:
Gavin Breslin,
Gerard Leavey (University of Ulster,
UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 1.390kg
ISBN: 9781032271835
ISBN 10: 1032271833
Series: Routledge Psychological Interventions
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 04 April 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
1. Getting Started an overview Gavin Breslin and Gerard Leavey Section 1. Development of mental health awareness programmes for athletes, coaches, match officials and parents 2. The Optimum Performance Program in Sports (TOPPS) Brad Donohue and Kristin Brooks 3. Prevention of burnout and depression in junior elite swimmers Insa Nixdorf, Jürgen Beckmann and Raphael Nixdorf 4. Bolstering psychological health using Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy Martin J. Turner, Andrew G. Wood, Jamie B. Barker and Ailish King 5. Enhancing mental health awareness and self-management via mindfulness-based exercises: The State of Mind Ireland (SOMI) programme Gavin Breslin, Tandy Jane Haughey and Stephen Shannon 6. Ahead of the game: International scale-up of evidence-based mental health programming Stewart A. Vella, Sarah K. Liddle, Matthew J. Schweickle, Christian Swann, Angelina Lim, Emily Arnold and Caitlin Liddelow 7. Navigating Mental Illness and Brain Injury in Amateur Rugby Thomas McCabe 8. Supporting Sports Officials’ Mental Health and Well-being Using the Trauma-Informed Practice Developmental Model Noel Brick, Gavin Breslin, Mikel Mellick, and Tom Webb Section 2. Engaging the wider community in mental health awareness through sport 9. Tackling the Blues: A Sport and Arts-based mental health programme for children and young people Andy Smith, Rachel Wilcock, Aston Monro, Helen O’Keeffe and Jon Jones 10. Applying Self Determination Theory to Motivate Prisoners to Exercise: The Cell Workout Workshops Hannah Sian Hammond and Rosie Meek 11. Mental health and well-being of men in prison: Evidence from the Active Choices Rugby and State of Mind Sport Programmes. David Woods and Gavin Breslin 12. Stay Onside and Fresh Start Programmes for Young People at Risk of Criminality Conor Murray, Gavin Breslin, and Brendan Coyle 13. Another Call to Action: Critical reflections and the way forward for mental health in sport Gavin Breslin and Gerard Leavey
Gavin Breslin is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Queen's University Belfast, UK. Gerard Leavey is Director of the Bamford Centre for Mental Health and Well-being at Ulster University, UK.
