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This booklet has all of it - written via nationwide and overseas specialists and edited via global professionals, it's the first e-book on game psychiatry in over a decade. facing psychopathology, psychological illnesses and medical administration, it differs markedly from activities psychology books that concentrate on functionality matters. consuming problems, workout dependancy, drug abuse are all difficulties which are obvious in 'everyday' athletes, not only elite performers. This publication indicates the right way to help.
This textual content covers an important issues in modern activities psychiatry/psychology from a global standpoint. bankruptcy authors are specialists within the box and international leaders within the comparable specialist enterprises, together with present and earlier Presidents/Chairs of the overseas Society for activities Psychiatry and of the area Psychiatric organization part on workout and activities Psychiatry. Authors are usually psychiatrists: the remainder are PhD activity psychologists.
The ebook includes consultant bankruptcy authors from all over the world, to an volume remarkable during this subject. The authors and editors are well-informed in worldwide views, e.g., having served as experts to various Olympic groups, as well as provider at the overseas Society for activities Psychiatry's Board of Directors.
Specifically, this booklet covers 4 major different types of topics:
1) psychological overall healthiness demanding situations confronted by means of athletes (including substance use issues, workout dependancy, consuming issues, melancholy, suicide, and concussion),
2) therapy techniques and healing matters with athletes (including kinds of psychotherapy for psychiatric problems, psychotherapeutic functionality enhancement ways, transference and countertransference concerns, fulfillment by way of proxy, psychotherapeutic matters as utilized to a few of activities which are performed world wide, and use of psychiatric medicinal drugs in athletes),
3) psychosocial concerns affecting athletes (including sexual harassment and abuse, cultural matters, and ethics issues), and
4) the sphere of activities psychiatry (including paintings inside one universal activities psychiatry perform environment, and present prestige of and demanding situations within the box of activities psychiatry).
There is a transforming into want for this booklet. Performance-enhancing medicinal drugs, use of psychotropics in impaired athletes, head trauma, sexual abuse, consuming problems, ethics, and melancholy and suicide in athletes, are only some of the well timed topics addressed during this textual content. this can be the single complete reference to be had for these operating within the box (or basically attracted to it) to refer to for present details on those issues. the prevailing activities psychology texts all specialise in functionality matters, with little, if any, cognizance paid to those parts of scientific value. The ebook addresses the center modifications among activities psychiatry and activities psychology, in addition to the components of overlap. Emphasis is put on how the disciplines may still interact in diagnosing and treating athletes facing emotional rigidity and psychopathology.
Chapters comprise case examples and particular targets indexed at first, besides tables and graphs to focus on key concepts.
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Ponizovskiy Department of Mental Disorders Complicated by Substance Abuse, Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry, Russia KEY POINTS r Athletic retirement is a challenge that results in healthy adjustment or a distressful response. r Substance abuse in former athletes is one of the signs of career transition distress. r Extensive studies investigating substance abuse in retired athletes are needed to improve preventive measures. BACKGROUND Changes in social roles occurring during the life course of every person are difficult transitional periods requiring adaptation.
The following real-life cases highlight a few of the issues associated with doping in sport. 30 Clinical Sports Psychiatry Case Study 1 A 16-year-old adolescent male always dreamed of being a high school football player. Despite an aggressive workout schedule and intense weight lifting, he was only able to get his weight up to 215 pounds. The coach told him after the tryout that he liked his effort, but he would need to put on 25 additional pounds to make the team. The player asked the coach how he could possibly do it.
12. Kerr G, Dacyshyn A. (2000) The retirement experiences of elite female gymnasts. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology 12, 115–133. 13. Taylor B, Ogilvie BC. (1994) A conceptual model of adaptation to retirement among athletes. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology 6, 1–20. 14. Sinclair DA, Hackford D. (2000) The role of the sport organization in the career transition process. ) Career Transitions in Sport: International Perspectives. Morgantown: Fitness Information Technology Inc, pp. 131–142. 15.
