Mental Health in Elite Sport

<p><em>Mental Health in Elite Sport: Applied Perspectives from Across the Globe</em><b> </b>provides a<b> </b>focused exhaustive overview of up-to-date mental health research models and approaches in elite sport<b> </b>to provide researchers practitioners coaches and students with contemporary knowledge and strategies to address mental health in elite sport across a variety of contexts.</p><p>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.</p><p>By using a global multi-contextual analysis to address mental health in elite sport this book<i> </i>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. </p>