Charles A. Maher

Fostering the Mental Health of Athletes, Coaches, and Staff (eBook, PDF)

A Systems Approach to Developing a Mentally Healthy Sport Organization

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes a systems approach for fostering the mental health of athletes, coaches, and staff in sport organizations at professional, collegiate, and secondary school levels. Through this approach, readers can collaborate effectively with a range of professionals in sport organizations, helping to create a mentally healthy entity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000632194
• Artikelnr.: 64994053

Autorenporträt

Charles A. Maher, PsyD, CMPC, FAASP is a licensed psychologist, sport and performance psychologist with the Cleveland Guardians Baseball Organization, and Professor Emeritus of Applied Psychology at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. For thirty-four years, Dr Maher has provided mental performance and mental health services to athletes, coaches, support staffs, and executives in Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, Women's National Basketball Association, National Football League, National Hockey League, collegiate sport organizations, as well as in tennis, boxing, and horseracing.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Charting the Parameters of Mental Health in Sport Organizations
2. Taking a Systems Approach to Mental Health in Sport Organizations
3. Creating a Vision and Direction for Promoting Positive Mental Health
4. Assessing the Readiness of a Sport Organization for Mental Health
Initiatives
5. Identifying and Gaining Commitments of Individuals who can Contribute to
Mental Health
6. Assessing the Mental and Emotional Development of Athletes in a Sport
Organization.
7. Designing and Implementing Mental Health Programs and Services
8. Educating and Training Coaches and Staff as Mental Health Contributors
9. Establishing and Sustaining a Team Environment in Support of Mental
Health
10. Formulating and Enacting Mental Health Policies, Plans, and Procedures
at the Organizational Level
11. Coordinating Mental Skills, Life Skills, and Mental Health Programs and
Services
12. Evaluating Mental Health Programs as a Basis for their Continuous
Development and Improvement
13. Making Decisions about the Continuous Development and Improvement of
Mental Health Programs in Sport Organizations
14. Concluding Comments and Next Steps
Appendix A: Example of a Crisis and Emergency Action Plan for a Sport
Organization
Appendix B: Sample Evaluable Program Design for Mental Health Program