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This epilogue highlights three critical issues in sport mental health: models of athlete care, the role of recreational sports in mental health promotion, and the need for improved study quality.
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This epilogue summarizes key issues in athlete mental health care, recreational sports promotion, and study quality.
In this epilogue to the special issue of Journal of Applied Sport Psychology on mental health in sport, we draw together just a few of the lessons that can be learned from the six papers presented within. Specifically, we draw attention to three issues that reflect the state of field: models of athlete mental health care; the role of recreational sports in mental health promotion; and, the need for improved study quality. All this is not an exhaustive list, we hope that the discussion of these s = issues can help to move the field forward. Lay Summary:In this epilogue to the Special Issue we draw together the contributions of the included papers and offer commentary on three issues facing the field: (1) models of athlete mental health care; (2) the role of recreational sports in mental health promotion; and, (3) the need for improved study quality.
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Vella et al. (2020) conducted an editorial in Mental health in sport. This epilogue highlights three critical issues in sport mental health: models of athlete care, the role of recreational sports in mental health promotion, and the need for improved study quality.
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