Mental Health and Well-being Interventions in Sport

Research, Theory and Practice

Gavin Breslin, Gerard Leavey

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781040004173
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Applied Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• 1 Getting started: An overview
• Section 1 Development of mental health awareness programmes for athletes, coaches, match officials and parents
• 2 The Optimum Performance Program in Sports (TOPPS)
• 3 Prevention of burnout and depression in junior elite swimmers
• 4 “It is just a bad day”: Using Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy to bolster healthy adaptation in a Paralympic athlete
• 5 Enhancing mental health awareness and self-management via mindfulness-based exercises: The State of Mind Ireland (SOMI) programme
• 6 Ahead of the game: International scale-up of evidence-based mental health programming
• 7 Navigating mental illness and brain injury in amateur rugby: A Sport Psychiatry case study
• 8 Supporting sports officials’ mental health and well-being using the Trauma-Informed Practice Developmental Model
• 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
• 10 Applying self determination theory to motivate prisoners to exercise: The Cell Workout Workshops
• 11 Mental health and well-being of men in prison: Evidence from the Active Choices Rugby and State of Mind Sport Programmes
• 12 ‘Stay Onside’: Exploring the impact of an academically accredited sport-based intervention on psychosocial well-being in prison
• 13 Another Call to Action: Critical reflections and the way forward for mental health in sport
• Index