Promoting Mental Health in Youth Sport

2016 ◽  
pp. 216-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Carless ◽  
Kitrina Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Youth Sport

Supporting Mental Health in Youth Sport: Introducing a Toolkit for Coaches, Clubs, and Organisations

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Courtney C. Walton ◽  
Serena Carberry ◽  
Michael Wilson ◽  
Rosemary Purcell ◽  
Lisa Olive ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Translation ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Recreational Sport ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
First Response ◽  
High Participation

The mental health of young people is of increasing concern, and early intervention prevention strategies are required. Youth sports are potentially effective environments within which to situate interventions due to high participation rates, familiarity to young participants, and the typically positive relationships held with adults within such spaces. However, coaches identify that they require more knowledge to better respond to mental health concerns that may be present among players. Here, we describe a research translation process in which an open-access, evidence-informed resource was developed to support coaches and sports clubs to better respond to athletes in need as well as to create environments that may protect against mental ill-health and promote well-being. The resource includes a toolkit—with an associated checklist—for recreational sport clubs to follow, a guide to responding to young people in need, and a short educational video. We suggest that these practical and applied resources, which can be immediately implemented, may assist in the provision of targeted and structured guidance for coaches’ first response intervention with vulnerable young people. Furthermore, these resources can support future efforts by being specifically tailored for the unique locations and cultures that vary among youth sport environments.

Youth sport participation and parental mental health

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 101832
Author(s):  
Jordan T. Sutcliffe ◽  
Peter J. Kelly ◽  
Stewart A. Vella
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
Parental Mental Health ◽  
Youth Sport Participation

Mental Health and Organized Youth Sport

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart A. Vella
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Youth Sports ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Organized Sport

Mental health is one of the most prominent global burdens of disease among young people, while organized youth sport is one of the most popular activities for children and adolescents worldwide. Organized sport can be an engaging vehicle for the promotion of mental health, but participation also brings several meaningful risks and detriments for young people’s mental health. This paper contains a review of the evidence underpinning the relationships between sport participation and mental health during childhood and adolescence and also outlines the key areas of risk for mental health problems. Relevant theoretical frameworks are discussed, as are the key concepts underpinning 2 exemplar sport-based interventions to promote mental health and reduce the risk of mental health problems. Recommendations for best practice in organized youth sport are not available. However, relevant frameworks are outlined, from which administrators, coaches, and athletes can base the design and delivery of sport programs to be consistent with relevant theoretical and philosophical approaches such as the athlete-centered approach to youth sports.

Mental Health and Well-being in Competitive Youth Sport: A Scoping Review Protocol

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney C. Walton ◽  
Simon Rice ◽  
Rosemary Purcell ◽  
Ralph de Vries ◽  
Carsten Larsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Review Protocol ◽  
Health And Well Being

The objective of the current scoping review is to comprehensively review all empirical studies examining mental health within the context of competitive youth sport.

scholarly journals “Daddy, Help Me; I Forgot How to Make a New Friend”: Emotional Geographies of Youth Sport in Pandemic Times

2021 ◽  
pp. 153270862110365
Author(s):  
Michael D. Giardina
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Emotional Geographies ◽  
Everyday Experiences

In what follows, the author directs attention to one slice of pandemic life and its interplay across the emotional geographies of childhood, parenthood, work-life balance, lockdowns, stress, mental health, and youth sport, for it is in these private if banal moments that the “everyday” experiences of the pandemic are made real—and reveal the tensions and dilemmas that individuals tried to negotiate—to differing levels of success.

Youth sport as a context for supporting mental health: Adolescent male perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 55-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Swann ◽  
Joanne Telenta ◽  
Georgia Draper ◽  
Sarah Liddle ◽  
Andrea Fogarty ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
Adolescent Male

Therapy and prevention for mental health: What if mental diseases are mostly not brain disorders?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. A. Ioannidis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Brain Disorders ◽  
Social Stressors ◽  
Labor Education ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Political Decisions

AbstractNeurobiology-based interventions for mental diseases and searches for useful biomarkers of treatment response have largely failed. Clinical trials should assess interventions related to environmental and social stressors, with long-term follow-up; social rather than biological endpoints; personalized outcomes; and suitable cluster, adaptive, and n-of-1 designs. Labor, education, financial, and other social/political decisions should be evaluated for their impacts on mental disease.

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