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Position paper: sports psychiatric care provision in competitive sports
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Mental stress and illness are common health problems in competitive sports that can reduce performance and have effects beyond the end of a career as sport-specific and unspecific disorders. The promotion of mental health and safe handling of mental problems and illnesses require appropriate education and train-ing. However, child, adolescent and adult psychiatrists with specific expertise in competitive sports (sports psychiatrists) are not yet an integral part of the structure of medical care provision in competitive sports. This position paper gives an overview about existing care structures in competitive sports for the promotion of mental health, and investigated them with proposals for the further development of sports psychiatric care in competitive sports. Sports physicians, sports psychiatrists, as well as interdisci-plinary and interprofessional collaboration, are at the center of mental health efforts in competitive sports. Further aspects that will be discussed are the education and training of athletes and the environment in competitive sports, as well as the promotion of coaches’ health. Key Words: Elite sports, Prevention, Mental health problems and disorders, Sports psychiatry, Sports Medicine
- Subjects :
- Physical Therapy
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
610 Medicine & health
Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Care provision
2732 Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Nursing
10054 Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics
Position paper
10046 Balgrist University Hospital, Swiss Spinal Cord Injury Center
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
3612 Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Psychology
human activities
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4f44564f71fa55b13af95854ed4dbea8