Mental Health in Elite Sport (ISSP Key Issues in Sport and Exercise Psychology) (PDF)

By Carsten Larsen, Karin Moesch, Natalie Durand-Bush, Kristoffer Henriksen
Mental Health in Elite Sport: Applied Perspectives from Across the Globeprovides afocused, exhaustive overview of up-to-date mental health research, models, and approaches in elite sportto provide researchers, practitioners, coaches, and students with contemporary knowledge and strategies to address mental health in elite sport across a variety of contexts.
Mental Health in Elite Sport is divided into two main parts. The first part focuses globally on mental health service provision structures and cases specific to different world regions and countries. The second part focuses on specific mental health interventions across countries but also illustrates specific case studies and interventions as influenced by the local context and culture. This tour around the world offers readers an understanding of the massive global differences in mental health service provision within different situations and organizations. This is the first book of its kind in which highly experienced scholars and practitioners openly share their programs, methods, reflections, and failures on working with mental health in different contexts.
By using a global, multi-contextual analysis to address mental health in elite sport, this bookis an essential text for practitioners such as researchers, coaches, athletes, as well as instructors and students across the sport science and mental health fields.

Product Details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 27, 2021
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0367427680
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0367427689
Part of series ‏ : ‎ ISSP Key Issues in Sport and Exercise Psychology