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Another call to action: critical reflections and the way forward for mental health in sport
No full textWe argue here for another call to action in supporting elite and non-elite athlete’s mental health. Although sport has many protective factors for health and wellbeing, the sport environment or non-supportive climate where a winning at all costs ethos is adopted can prove catastrophic. In each chapter we have highlighted how evidence and theory informed intervention programmes can be helpful in supporting the mental health of those involved in sport. This chapter reflects on the chapters and presents a way forward for mental health in sport and propose a call to action by associations of sport.<br/
Getting started: an overview
No full textThis introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book describes programmes that are intended to explain how to use research, theory and integrate into practice from international experts in the field of sport psychology. The development of mental health and well-being interventions in sport settings remain relatively underdeveloped and often poorly theorised. The book explains about applying psychology to the development of interventions to enhance mental health and well-being of those involved in participating in competitive sport. It focuses on the design process and the content of the interventions, with an emphasis on methodological advances and what has been shown to improve awareness of mental health and well-being. The book discusses mental health awareness programmes for athletes and coaches, and mental health awareness programmes for the public delivered through sport.<br/
‘Stay onside’: exploring the impact of an academically accredited sport-based intervention on psychosocial well-being in prison
No full textThis chapter will focus on benefits and limitations of academically accredited sports-based interventions, with a view to achieving the following: highlighting the challenges involved in delivering sport-based interventions (SBIs) to unique cohorts of prisoners; outlining how academically accredited SBIs can address the limited opportunities provided to these groups; offering a reflexive account of the development, delivery and evaluation of the “Stay Onside: Applied Football Studies” programme; and providing insights into lessons learned from the project, to help shape future research, theory, policy and practice concerning academically accredited SBIs.<br/
Tackling the blues:A sport and education-based mental health programme for children and young people
No full textThis chapter discusses the initial design and development of an on-going sport and education-based mental health programme - Tackling the Blues (TtB) - which was introduced in January 2015 for primary and secondary school-aged children and young people (CYP) who are experiencing, or are at risk of developing mental illness. It examines how participants were identified, recruited and engaged, and the features of the selected theoretical framework, that is realist evaluation, which underpinned the programme. The chapter explores the lessons learned from using the brand of a professional football club to engage CYP and the training and use of university student peer mentors. It describes the inevitable limitations of the programme imposed by the various inequalities which beset the participants’ lives. TtB is an on-going programme which at the time of writing was nearing the end of its second year of delivery.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Enhancing mental health awareness and self-management via mindfulness-based exercises: The State of Mind Ireland (SOMI) programme
No full textTime at university is a period for personal and academic growth, characterised by opportunities for identity development, interpersonal relationship formation, and future career decision making (Arnett, 2016). It can also be a time of stress, brought on by instability and uncertainty due to academic need for achievement, financial hardship, and securing graduate employment (American College Health Association, 2018). Making the transition to university can be a challenging period for young people and is often overlooked in preparing students for new life experiences. Student-athletes who are prone to stress and mental health problems because of co-existing academic, social and sporting demands (Wilson & Pritchard, 2005; Bennet, 2007) are often overlookedwhen it comes to mental health support (Breslin et al., 2021). Therefore, The State of Mind Ireland (SOMI) programme was developed in response to the lack of evidence and theory-based programmes designed to enhance mental health awareness of student-athletes (Breslin et al., 2018a). The aim of this chapter is to share the process we followed in developing, recruiting, delivering, and evaluating a third iteration of the SOMI mental health and awareness programme to student athletes (i.e., Shannon et al., 2019)
Tackling the Blues: A sport and arts-based mental health programme for children and young people
Full text linkThis chapter discusses the initial design and development of an on-going sport and education-based mental health programme – Tackling the Blues (TtB) – which was introduced in January 2015 for primary and secondary school-aged children and young people (CYP) who are experiencing, or are at risk of developing mental illness. It examines how participants were identified, recruited and engaged, and the features of the selected theoretical framework, that is realist evaluation, which underpinned the programme. The chapter explores the lessons learned from using the brand of a professional football club to engage CYP and the training and use of university student peer mentors. It describes the inevitable limitations of the programme imposed by the various inequalities which beset the participants’ lives. TtB is an on-going programme which at the time of writing was nearing the end of its second year of delivery
Tackling the Blues: A sport and arts-based mental health programme for children and young people
Full text linkThis chapter discusses the initial design and development of an on-going sport and education-based mental health programme – Tackling the Blues (TtB) – which was introduced in January 2015 for primary and secondary school-aged children and young people (CYP) who are experiencing, or are at risk of developing mental illness. It examines how participants were identified, recruited and engaged, and the features of the selected theoretical framework, that is realist evaluation, which underpinned the programme. The chapter explores the lessons learned from using the brand of a professional football club to engage CYP and the training and use of university student peer mentors. It describes the inevitable limitations of the programme imposed by the various inequalities which beset the participants’ lives. TtB is an on-going programme which at the time of writing was nearing the end of its second year of delivery
Mental health and well-being of men in prison
No full textThis chapter describes the Active Choices Rugby Programme that aimed at enhancing mental well-being of prisoners. It provides an insights into the specific challenges to mental well-being faced by young men in prison, and outlines how sporting interventions can be used to help tackle these challenges. The chapter presents a reflexive account of implementing and evaluating a sporting intervention within the unique prison environment, and analyses researchers and practitioners alike with lessons learned to help shape future research, theory and practice in this field. The Active Choices Rugby Programme was offered within the prison as an intervention designed, in part, to use the context of sport to engage young men within prison to improve their mental well-being. Results revealed that the short duration of the Active Choices Rugby Programme and a lack of opportunity to play rugby upon the programme conclusion within the prison prevented any longer-term maintenance of increased feelings of competence.<br/
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