Sport and Mental Health - From Research to Everyday Practice

This user-friendly, comprehensive and highly relevant book allows readers to gain a better understanding of mental health issues in sport and exercise. The field of sports psychiatry continues to grow globally at a rapid pace. This, in part, can be explained by the changing culture of sport leading to an appreciation of the role of psychiatric symptoms and syndromes in the world of sport, but also the increasing spread of both highly performance oriented and grass-roots basic sports and the associated risks in large sections of the population. The long-standing stigma attached to mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, ADHD, suicide, brain injuries, substance-abuse, is being challenged not only by high-profile athletes, but also in public health and general mental health services.
The book utilizes an innovative case-based and structured didactical format to provide short summaries of recent research by leading experts in the respective fields, as well as up-to date prevention and clinical guidelines for all relevant disorders in a way that is easily accessible to the large and growing groups interested and active in sports. This work is relevant for all mental health professionals and can also be used by a wider readership including medical doctors, psychologists, athletes and coaches.
A second volume covers the role of exercise as an effective treatment for a number of common psychiatric conditions, such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders and substance abuse.


David Baron is founding Chair of the WPA Scientific Section, Exercise, Psychiatry and Sport, (current Vice Chair), Board member, International Society of Sports Psychiatrist, Chair of Concussion and Sport, Consultant to numerous professional sports leagues, NCAA, IOC, WADA, Ministers of Sports, 2018 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Brain Science. US- Centers for Disease Control consultant on Safety in Youth Sports Program, focusing on concussion in youth sports, named, America's Top Doc in Sports Psychiatry, Consumer Council of America, Founder and current Director, Center for Health and Sport at Western University. 

Thomas Wenzel, MD, Prof. of Psychiatry (Medical University of Vienna, Austria), is current chair of the World Psychiatric Association Scientific Section on Sport and Exercise Psychiatry. Long term research and clinical focus on psychological trauma, brain trauma, and transcultural issues in Sports and in victims of violence, more than 300 publications and published papers. International teaching in sport psychiatry. He is co-ordinator of the WPA section educational program on healthy sports. Long term chair and co-founder, WPA section on sequels to persecution and torture.
Andreas Ströhle, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. He is leading  a research group on Sports Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, and head of the division of Sports Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the German Association of Psychiatrists (DGPPN). Besides mental disorders in athletes his clinical work and research focuses on physical activity, exercise and sports in the prevention and treatment of mental disorders. 
Todd Stull, M.D is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of California Riverside. Stull is the Mental Health Officer for the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee for the upcoming Tokyo and Beijing Games. He was the first full-time sports psychiatrist in the NCAA where he served as the Senior Associate Athletic Director for Performance at the University of Nebraska in the Athletic Department. He is the immediate Past President of the International Society for Sports Psychiatry. Stull has been on several NCAA workgroups to write guidelines for mental health, substance use, sleep, pain, gender, diversity, and sports wagering. He has served on the NCAA Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports Committee and was the chair of the subcommittee for drug testing for the NCAA.  He was one of 22 experts from six continents on the International Olympic Committee to develop mental health and substance use guidelines.