Mental Health in Elite Sport Applied Perspectives from Across the Globe

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.

List of contributors Series foreword Chapter 1: Setting the scene: Mental health in elite sport Carsten Hvid Larsen, Andreas Küttel, Karin Moesch, Natalie Durand-Bush and Kristoffer Henriksen PART I. Cases and structures of mental health across countries Chapter 2: Mental health in Germany: Examples of good practice in preventing mental disorders and promoting mental health in elite athletes Marion Sulprizio, Jens Kleinert and Johanna Belz Chapter 3: Mental health in elite sport: perspectives from sub-Saharan Africa Tshepang Tshube, Lingani Mbakile-Mahlanza, Gaorekwe V. Nthutang and Justice Dipeba Chapter 4: Mental Health in Brazilian Sport: Olympic, Paralympic and Soccer Athletes Franco Noce, Varley Teoldo da Costa, Marcelo Callegari Zanetti, Maria Regina Ferreira Brandão, Ciro Winckler, Fabrízio Veloso Rodrigues, Aline Arias Wolf and Cristina Carvalho de Melo Chapter 5: Establishing a mental health clinic for elite sports: The Swedish model Göran Kenttä and Karin Hyland Chapter 6: Creating a national system to support mental health and enhance wellbeing across high performance sport Lisa Olive, Simon Rice, Matt Butterworth, Mary Spillane, Matti Clements and Rosemary Purcell Chapter 7: Mental health and sport in Canada: An example of sport-focused collaborative careNatalie Durand-Bush and Krista Van Slingerland PART II. Specific interventios on mental health across countries Chapter 8: ACT for Health Anxiety and Performance Readiness Alexander Cohen Chapter 9: Coach’s Influence on Athletes’ Mental Health in Taiwan: A Case Report Frank J. H. Lu Chapter 10: Collaborative Case Management: Supporting Mental Health in the UK’s High Performance Sport System Samuel Cumming, Sarah Cecil and Amanda Gatherer Chapter 11: From tragic incidents to sound value-based leadership: A summary Carsten Hvid Larsen, Karin Moesch, Natalie Durand-Bush and Kristoffer Henriksen Index

Carsten Hvid Larsen is an associate professorat theFaculty 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 professorat the Faculty of Sport Science and Clinical Biomechanics at the University of Southern Denmark and sport psychology practitioner in Team Denmark.