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PSYCHOSOCIAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN HIGH-LEVEL ATHLETES The psychological health of competitive athletes is of paramount importance to performance, retention, and well-being in sport, and national governing bodies are increasingly concerned with its promotion. Psychosocial Health and Well-Being in High-Level Athletes offers students, researchers, and practicing sport psycholo- gists an accessible and rigorous grounding in the manifestations of psychosocial health in athletes, the threats athletes face to their psychosocial health, and the interventions which can be designed to enhance it. Seeking to guide future research and expand professional understanding of psychosocial issues in sport, the book is based on a model of cognitive, emotional, social, and spiritual health. It clearly defines these dimensions in a sporting con- text before discussing pertinent threats—such as career transitions, injuries, and abuse—and interventions, including adversarial growth, life-skill interventions, prevention and organization policy, and mindfulness-based interventions. Providing an innovative and integrated perspective on psychosocial health and well-being in competitive sport, this book is essential reading for upper-level students taking any clinical sport psychology modules, and for sport psycholo- gists, coaches, and administrators working with competitive athletes. Nick Galli, Ph.D., CMPC® is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Recreation at the University of Utah, USA. Dr. Galli has authored or co-authored more than 20 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters related to psychosocial health in high-level athletes. He was recognized as a distinguished early career scholar by both the Association for Applied Sport Psychology and the American Psychological Association’s Society for Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology. As a practitioner, Galli serves as the mental performance coach for U.S. speed skating. PSYCHOSOCIAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN HIGH-LEVEL ATHLETES Nick Galli First published 2019 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2019 Nick Galli The right of Nick Galli to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Galli, Nick, 1979- author. Title: Psychosocial health and well-being in high-level athletes/Nick Galli. Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018059973 | ISBN 9780815381259 (hardack) | ISBN 9780815381266 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781351210942 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Athletes–Psychology. | Athletes–Mental health. | Sports–Psychological aspects. | Sports–Physiological aspects. Classification: LCC GV706.4 .G337 2019 | DDC 796.01/9–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018059973 ISBN: 978-0-8153-8125-9 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-8153-8126-6 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-351-21094-2 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India For Julie, Jay, and Bella. CONTENTS List of illustrations ix Acknowledgments x PART I Foundations of psychosocial health 1 1 The relevance of psychosocial health for high-level athletes 3 2 Cognitive and emotional health 13 3 Social and spiritual health 31 PART II Threats to psychosocial health 45 4 Organizational stress 47 5 Performance pressure 59 6 Abuse 72 7 Injury 85 8 Transitions 101 viii Contents PART III Interventions and positive outcomes 113 9 Prevention 115 10 Organizational practices and policy 129 11 Treatment 138 12 Resilience and adversarial growth 149 Index 163 ILLUSTRATIONS Figures 1.1 A conceptual model for understanding psychosocial health in high-level athletes 5 1.2 An integrated model of global well-being and context-specific well-being related to sport 8 10.1 A model for comprehensive prevention practices in high-level sport 131 Tables 1.1 Characteristics of hedonic and eudaimonic aspects of well-being for athletes 7 2.1 Summary of selected prevalence studies for emotional health issues in high-level athletes 21
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