Supporting The Mental Health Of Elite-Level Coaches Through Early Intervention.

ABSTRACT: Current evidence indicates that elite-level coaches encounter a range of performance, organizational, and personal stressors that may influence or compromise mental health. With exposure to these stressors, supports need to be established to protect and preserve the mental health of elite-level coaches. Given the paucity of evidence available, this article proposes a number of considerations that should be taken into account when developing a mental health and rehabilitation framework for high-performance coaches. We argue that early intervention should be positioned at the core of this framework, to address the onset of symptoms prior to the emergence of a mental disorder or mental health crisis. Mental health screening and monitoring of coaches, the psychological safety of high-performan

SUBMITTER: Frost J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10461153 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature