Gold Medal Strategies for Athlete Mental Health: A Sport-Informed Lens to Therapeutic Treatment for High Performance Athletes

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dc.contributor.authorTang, Jess
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-09T23:37:44Z
dc.date.available2024-12-09T23:37:44Z
dc.date.issued2024-09
dc.description.abstractAs high profile athletes increasingly share their mental health challenges, awareness of the need for mental help support in sports is growing. This capstone explores both the prevalence of mental health symptoms and disorders among high performance athletes and identifies sport specific risk factors for mental health within high performance sport systems. Understanding how mental health can impact both mental and athletic performance can lower mental health stigma in sports, increase help-seeking behaviours, and creates a distinct opportunity for Registered Clinical Counsellors (RCCs) in elite sport systems. It is time RCCs enter into the arena equipped with a sport-informed lens to therapeutic treatment that allows athletes to go for gold without sacrificing their mental health. This approach recognizes the complexities of being an elite athlete, the pressures of high performance environments, and importance of the coach-athlete relationship. By integrating therapeutic care into the athlete’s sport contexts and acknowledging both their mental well-being and performance goals, we can ensure they reach peak performance, competing at their best both on and off the field.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11803/2592
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisher.institutionCity University of Seattle (CityU)
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
dc.rightsopenAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.subjectsport
dc.subjectsport-informed
dc.subjectathlete mental health
dc.subjecthigh performance
dc.subjectsport psychology
dc.subjectmental performance
dc.titleGold Medal Strategies for Athlete Mental Health: A Sport-Informed Lens to Therapeutic Treatment for High Performance Athletes
dc.typeCapstone
thesis.degree.disciplineCounselling
thesis.degree.grantorCity University of Seattle (CityU)
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Counselling
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