Key result
Sports psychiatry is an essential medical discipline for the promotion of mental health and the safe management of mental complaints and illnesses in competitive sports.
Why the study?
Mental complaints and illnesses are common in competitive sports, requiring sports psychiatry and interdisciplinary care to promote mental health and safely manage these conditions.
Highlights the importance of sports psychiatry for mental health promotion, prevention, and treatment in competitive sports.
Supports multidisciplinary athlete care models; leaves open rigorous outcome studies before guideline adoption.
Mental complaints and illnesses are common health problems in competitive sports, and mental health, like physical health and performance, is an integral dimension in competitive sports. The promotion of mental health and safe management of mental complaints and illnesses in competitive sports requires a qualified medical discipline for mental health: sports psychiatry as well as an interdisciplinary and interprofessional understanding of care and cooperation. In the following article, sports psychiatry in competitive sports will be addressed and (i) mental health promotion and prevention, (ii) the tandem concept of interprofessional care and collaboration, (iii) diagnosis, treatment, and aftercare of mental disorders and illnesses, and (iv) education and training in sports psychiatry will be presented and discussed.
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Claussen et al. (2022) conducted a review in Mental complaints and illnesses in competitive sports. Sports psychiatry was evaluated. Sports psychiatry is an essential medical discipline for the promotion of mental health and the safe management of mental complaints and illnesses in competitive sports.