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Soccer
Published in Ira Glick, Danielle Kamis, Todd Stull, The ISSP Manual of Sports Psychiatry, 2018
Valentin Markser, David McDuff, Karl-Jürgen Bär
It seems only logical that high performance is possible in the state of mental health. In addition, most coaches and sport officials still assume that mental disorders should be treated by primary care sports medicine physicians or sports (performance) psychologists. Consequently, the German players’ union demanded that sports psychologists be present in every youth academy of the German soccer league. Despite this demand, only 10% of German professional soccer teams seem to offer a sports psychological service and an additional 30% call external sports psychologists as needed, indicating that around 60% of clubs have no sports psychological treatment available at all. According to the contract, sports psychologists are employed to improve the performance of athletes, to learn techniques to reduce anxiety, and to suppress signs of mental disorders during competitions. Mental training is a valuable method for the advancement of performance but is not an adequate technique to prevent or treat mental disorders. Sports psychologists might help and support professional soccer players to find their way to adequate psychiatric services. However, for the improvement of mental health and the effective prevention of mental disorders in professional soccer, a close collaboration of sports psychologists with sports psychiatrists is essential.
Mental health
Published in Liam J. Donaldson, Paul D. Rutter, Donaldsons' Essential Public Health, 2017
Liam J. Donaldson, Paul D. Rutter
As well as policies that seek to promote mental health, an important set of policies target the prevention of mental disorders and improvement of their outcomes. Suicide has long been an important target. The UK government has a suicide prevention strategy with the following key elements: targeted action at high-risk groups; tailored mental health provision for vulnerable groups, for example, abused children, veterans, those with untreated depression and ethnic minority groups; reduction in access to the means of suicide; better information and support for those affected by suicide; and encouraging more sensitive media coverage of suicide.
State of mental health care in the Republic of Uzbekistan
Published in Dinesh Bhugra, Samson Tse, Roger Ng, Nori Takei, Routledge Handbook of Psychiatry in Asia, 2015
Grigoriy Kharabara, Nargiza Khodjaeva
It is well known that the primary prevention of mental disorders largely depends on activities outside the formal provision of psychiatric services (they relate instead to family planning, maternal health, environmental health, specific activities in the field of obstetrics and paediatrics, and in many other sectors). Such actions have been successfully implemented in Uzbekistan. They have included maternal immunization against rubella; a decrease in the incidence of Down’s syndrome using cytodiagnosis and selective abortion; identification of congenital hypothyroidism; screening for phenylketonuria and supply of dietary products that do not contain phenylalanine; detection of human immunodeficiency virus; measures specific to infant and early childhood; immunization against measles and pertussis; the management of meningococcal meningitis in children; and the identification and treatment of chronic bacteriuria and pyelonephritis.
Suicide prevention training: self-perceived competence among primary healthcare professionals
Published in Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2021
Pia Solin, Nina Tamminen, Timo Partonen
Due to the associated risk of suicidal behavior and increased burden to health care system, training primary healthcare professionals in screening, assessing, and treating mental health disorders and substance abuse is an essential part of suicide prevention [1,6]. Could it be so, then, that even though several studies indicate that primary healthcare professionals still need education and training in the area of suicide prevention and mental disorders, the issue itself is not seen as a top priority in primary healthcare, as Hogan & Goldstein Grumet, [14] suggest. It would appear that despite some progress in recent years in terms of treatment and management strategies for suicide prevention, these strategies are not yet fully utilized [14]. The work by Hogan & Goldstein Grumet [14] also reminds us that a new care model is perhaps needed. For example, there are positive results from the care manager model, where nurses work as care managers following and supporting patients with depression. The care manager provides continuity in care and enables a person-centered care. [19,20] Such a significant change is often challenging, however, especially if it necessitates cultural or clinical change [20].
Evaluation of a professional development experience designed to equip school support staff with skills to facilitate youth mental health promotion
Published in Contemporary Nurse, 2019
Margaret McAllister, Bruce Allen Knight, Christine Handley, Cath Withyman, Jessica Dawkins, Penelope Hasking
The World Health Organization states that good mental health is related to mental and psychological well-being, not simply the absence of disorder, and thus advocates the imperative of initiatives that promote mental well-being, prevention of mental disorders and the care of people affected by mental disorders (World Health Organization, 2013). Good mental health is a positive state that goes beyond the realm of experiences within the mind or body of an individual and is in fact a whole-of-community responsibility. Because nurses, guidance officers and others working in schools and communities to support wellbeing are in positions to access people before they experience mental illness, it is vital that these people are skilled to work effectively with groups to promote this vision for health and wellbeing. Many authors argue that these workers need education and training to give them strategies that move beyond illness-care, so that they are have the knowledge to be able to work in ways that are empathic, strengths focused, collaborative and oriented to health and wellbeing, not just prevention of disorder (Harris, Kemp, & Sainsbury, 2012; Shapiro, 2008; Tooher et al., 2017).
Exploring causes and consequences of sex workers' psychological health: Implications for health care policy. A study conducted in Spain
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2018
Andrés Palacios Picos, Ruth Pinedo González, Myriam de la Iglesia Gutiérrez
Prostitution has been associated with being at higher risk of mental health problems but research has not yet explored causes and consequences of sex workers' psychological health. The aim of the researchers is to explore the causes and consequences of psychological health in sex workers while offering an intervention model for the prevention of mental disorders in accordance with WHO prevention levels. Specifically, researchers investigate whether situational variables (like loneliness or violence suffered) and personal variables (like self-esteem) could explain sex workers' psychological health. At the same time, this study analyzes whether psychological health could also explain the quality of life or other risky health factors such as symptoms of anxiety or the use of drugs. Taking into account all of the above-mentioned, this study postulates the following hypotheses: