Fostering the Mental Health of Athletes, Coaches, and Staff: A Systems Approach to Developing a Mentally Healthy Sport Organization

This book provides a systems approach for fostering the mental health of athletes, coaches, and staff in sport organizations at professional, collegiate, and secondary school levels. It offers guidance on creating a vision and direction, assessing readiness, identifying and involving key contributors, designing and implementing mental health programs, educating and training coaches, staff, and administrators, establishing a team environment, formulating and enacting mental health policies, plans, and procedures, coordinating mental skills, life skills, and mental health, and evaluating mental health programs and services. It is essential for licensed sport, clinical, and counseling psychologists, as well as other professionals who communicate and collaborate regarding mental health, including mental performance consultants, athletic trainers, and administrators.

Format: Hardback
Length: 194 pages
Publication date: 28 September 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book offers a systematic approach to promoting the mental well-being of athletes, coaches, and staff within sport organizations at professional, collegiate, and secondary school levels. By adopting this approach, readers gain the ability to collaborate effectively with a diverse range of professionals within sport organizations, ultimately contributing to the creation of a mentally healthy entity.

The book is organized into a series of sequential and interconnected chapters, each providing detailed steps and practical exercises for practitioners. The introductory chapter delves into the historical evolution of mental health within sport organizations, providing a foundation for the subsequent chapters.

Chapter-by-chapter guidance is then provided on various key activities, including:

* Establishing a vision and direction for mental health within a sport organization.
* Assessing the readiness of a sport organization to implement mental health initiatives.
* Identifying and involving key individuals as contributors to mental health.
* Evaluating the mental and emotional development of athletes, coaches, and staff.
* Designing and implementing comprehensive mental health programs and services.
* Educating and training coaches, staff, and administrators about mental health.
* Creating a team environment that fosters mental well-being.
* Formulating and enacting mental health policies, plans, and procedures.
* Coordinating mental skills, life skills, and mental health within sport organizations.
* Evaluating the effectiveness of mental health programs and services.
* Making informed decisions to enhance mental health initiatives.

Due to its unique and groundbreaking nature, as well as being the first book to specifically address athlete mental health through this lens, this resource is of utmost importance for licensed sport, clinical, and counseling psychologists, as well as other professionals involved in communication and collaboration within sport organizations.

Weight: 560g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367746766