Collegiate Athletics in Crisis: Proactive and Reactive Measures towards Mental Health Outcomes
A special issue of Youth (ISSN 2673-995X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 8034
Special Issue Editors
Interests: human body responds and adapts to continuous moderate-intensity exercise; high-intensity interval exercise and training programs; psychological; nutritional; pharmaceutical stimuli; and how these responses influence cardiometabolic processes in humans under the perspective of network physiology of exercise and lifestyle medicine
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent tragic events and data from official NCAA reports suggest that student-athletes' well-being is compromised by symptoms of mental health disorders. Indeed, the situation appears to be even worse in the post-COVID-19 era.
While some measures have been taken, there is still stigma and misinformation around mental health and mental illness. Although the famous athletes that have spoken about their mental health struggles have considerably helped to shift people’s opinions, significant work must still be done.
This Special Issue aims to recognize mental health as an integral component of athletic performance, promote mental health sensitivity and awareness, and highlight that we are all contributors to mental health.
However, this Special Issue also aims to provide basic and applied scientific research on the negative (e.g., stress/depression, insomnia and alcohol use), but also on the positive mental health outcomes (e.g., happiness, social acceptance, autonomy) that arise from organized collegiate sports.
This Special Issue will supplement the existing literature by collecting scientific data on fostering mental health in collegiate athletics. In particular, we invite mental health work on this specific youth age group that addresses the individual level (e.g., mental health needs of the student athlete), the team level (e.g., team environment supportive of the mental health needs of all student athletes), and the organizational level (e.g., policies and programs to support the previous two levels).
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Zacharias Papadakis
Dr. Andreas Stamatis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- collegiate athletics
- mental health
- depression
- anxiety
- NCAA
- sport psychology
- organizational psychology
- NAIA
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