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.
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.
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 OKeeffe 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.
