Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport. This comprehensive volume features cutting-edge research from around the world on issues that can compromise the welfare of athletes at all levels of sport and on the approaches taken by sports organisations to prevent and manage these.
In recent years, sports organisations have increased their efforts to ensure athlete health, safety, and well-being, often prompted by high-profile disclosures of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse; bullying; discrimination; disordered eating; addiction; and mental health issues. In this book, contributors lift the lid on these and other issues that jeopardise the physical, emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual welfare of athletes of all ages to raise awareness of the broad range of challenges athletes face. Chapters also highlight approaches to athlete welfare and initiatives taken by national and international sport organisations to provide a safer, more ethical sports environment.
As the first book to focus exclusively on athlete welfare, this is an essential read for students and researchers in sports studies, coaching, psychology, performance, development and management, and physical education. It is also a useful reference point for anyone working in welfare, safeguarding, child protection, and equity and inclusion in and beyond sport.
Edited by:
Melanie Lang (Edge Hill University UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 879g
ISBN: 9780367193256
ISBN 10: 0367193256
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Pages: 438
Publication Date: 27 October 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction, Part I: Conceptualisations of Athlete Welfare, 1. Developments in International Policy on Athlete Welfare, 2. Scientism and the Welfare of Athletes: Minds, Brains, Genes and Agency, 3. Organisational Obligations Toward Athlete Transitions: Confronting the bureaucratisation of Athlete Welfare with an Ethics of Care, 4. Athlete Shaming and the Ethics of Care: Opposing Forces in Sport Coaching, Part II: Current Concerns in the Welfare of Athletes, 5. Gendered Violence in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics: A Sociological Analysis, 6. Psychological Abuse in Competitive and High-Performance Women’s Volleyball, 7. Presenteeism in Elite Sport Organisations: A Framework for Understanding Athletes’ Decisions to Practice Sport Despite Health Concerns, 8. The Issue of Athlete Welfare and Why Tackling Should be Removed from Physical Education and School Sport: #BANTACKLING, 9. Welfare and the Protection of Young Athletes: An Analysis of the Nature and Prevalence of Bullying Behaviours in Sport Settings, 10. Degrading and Harming New Teammates During Hazing: ‘Athletes will be Athletes’, 11. Exploring the Links Between Self-directed Violence and Child Maltreatment and Bullying in Sport, Part III: Athlete Mental Health, 12. Mental Health in Sport, 13. Suicide Among Athletes, 14. The Athlete and Addiction, 15. Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating in Sport: The Hidden Role of Sporting Organisations and How the Cycle Can be Broken, Part IV: Equity and Inclusion as an Athlete Welfare Concern, 16. The Welfare of Disabled People in Sport, 17. Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Racist Ruptures in US Youth Soccer, 18. Locked Out: Examining Binary-gendered Locker Rooms as a Key Site for Trans Athlete Welfare, Part V: New Agendas and Missing Voices, 19. Virtual Technologies as Tools of Maltreatment: Safeguarding in Digital Spaces, 20. The Welfare of Adolescent High-performance Action Sport Athletes: The Case of Young Commercially Sponsored Dutch Kite Surfers, 21. Examinations of Sports Workers’ Welfare in Spaces of Geopolitical Conflict: ‘The Country is Under Threat, but the Game Goes On’, 22. Pasifika Rugby Migration and Athlete Welfare: Stairway to Heaven, 23. Countering the Trajectories Towards New Forms of Violence in Youth: Enhancing Protective Factors Through Sports, 24. Sexual Abuse ‘Survivor’ Research in Sport, 25. Factors Influencing the Mental Health of Sports Match Officials: The Potential Impact of Abuse and a Destabilised Support System from a Global Context, Part VI: Stakeholders in Athlete Welfare, 26. The Role of Parents in Promoting the Welfare of Children Involved in Sport, 27. Consent and Complicity: The Athletes’ Role in the Normalisation of Damaging Coaching Practices, 28. Athlete Welfare in Coach-athlete Romantic Relationships, 29. Moving Beyond Unproblematic Policy Implementation: Some Micro-level Reflections on Social Interaction, Emotion and the Enactment of Safeguarding Policy in Sport, Part VII: Approaches to Prevention, 30. Protection of the Athlete: Activities of the International Olympic Committee, 31. Criminal Record Checks as a Tool to Prevent Child Abuse in Sport, 32. Protecting Athletes Against Sexual Violence: A Club-based Approach from Germany, 33. Measuring the Prevalence of Interpersonal Violence Against Children in Sport, 34. Advancing Autonomy-supportive Coaching Through the Application of the Transtheoretical Model
Melanie Lang is Assistant Director of the Centre for Child Protection and Safeguarding in Sport and a senior lecturer in child protection in sport at Edge Hill University, UK. She is co- editor of the book Safeguarding, Child Protection and Abuse in Sport: International Perspectives in Research, Policy and Practice (Routledge, 2015).
