Mental Health in Elite Sport

Mental Health in Elite Sport: Applied Perspectives from Across the Globe provides a focused, exhaustive overview of up-to-date mental health research, models, and approaches in elite sport to 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 book is an essential text for practitioners such as researchers, coaches, athletes, as well as instructors and students across the sport science and mental health fields.

Carsten Hvid Larsen is an associate professor at the Faculty of Sport Science and Clinical Biomechanics at the University of Southern Denmark and head of sport psychology and sport psychology consultant in FC Nordsjaelland football club. Karin Moesch is employed as a sport psychologist at the Department for Elite Sports at the Swedish Sports Confederation. She also holds a position as a researcher at the Department of Psychology at Lund University. Natalie Durand-Bush is a sport psychology professor, scientist, and practitioner in the School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada. Natalie is the Director of the SEWP LAB and the co-founder of the Canadian Centre for Mental Health and Sport (CCMHS). Kristoffer Henriksen is an associate professor at the Faculty of Sport Science and Clinical Biomechanics at the University of Southern Denmark and sport psychology practitioner in Team Denmark.

List of contributors Series foreword 1. Setting the scene: Mental health in elite sport PART I. Cases and structures of mental health across countries 2. Mental health in Germany: Examples of good practice in preventing mental disorders and promoting mental health in elite athletes 3. Mental health in elite sport: perspectives from sub-Saharan Africa 4. Mental Health in Brazilian Sport: Olympic, Paralympic and Soccer Athletes 5. Establishing a mental health clinic for elite sports: The Swedish model 6. Creating a national system to support mental health and enhance well-being across high performance sport 7. Mental health and sport in Canada: An example of sport-focused collaborative care PART II. Specific interventions on mental health across countries 8. ACT for Health Anxiety and Performance Readiness 9. Coach's Influence on Athletes' Mental Health in Taiwan: A Case Report 10. Collaborative Case Management: Supporting Mental Health in the UK's High Performance Sport System 11. From tragic incidents to sound value-based leadership: A summary Index