Mental Health Challenges in Elite Sport: Balancing Risk with Reward

• Main Author: Judy Van Raalte (auth)
• Other Authors: Paul Joseph McCarthy (auth), Tadhg Eoghan MacIntyre (auth), Marc Jones (auth), Britton W. Brewer (auth), Deirdre O (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; mental health stigma; well-being; psychology of injury; green exercise; elite athletes; recovery; psychological literacy
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Elite sport typically provides obvious rewards in terms of recognition, finance and acclaim for athletic performance. Increasingly, we are becoming aware of the risks that elite athletes, their entourage, including families, sport-science support team and coaches are exposed to. Twelve original arti...