Sport and Mental Health
Sport and Mental Health: From Research to Everyday Practice
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031368630 | 551 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 14.3 MB
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031368630 | 551 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 14.3 MB
This user-friendly, comprehensive and highly relevant book allows readers to gain a better understanding of mental health issues in sport and exercise. The field of sports psychiatry continues to grow globally at a rapid pace. This, in part, can be explained by the changing culture of sport leading to an appreciation of the role of psychiatric symptoms and syndromes in the world of sport, but also the increasing spread of both highly performance oriented and grass-roots basic sports and the associated risks in large sections of the population. The long-standing stigma attached to mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, ADHD, suicide, brain injuries, substance-abuse, is being challenged not only by high-profile athletes, but also in public health and general mental health services.