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Mental Health and Well-being Interventions in Sport: Research, Theory and Practice

Mental Health and Well-being Interventions in Sport: Research, Theory and Practice

Paperback

Series: Routledge Psychological Interventions

Sports GeneralGeneral PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 1032271108
ISBN13: 9781032271101
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 4 2024
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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