ABSTRACT
Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport. This comprehensive volume features cutting-edge research from around the world on issues that can compromise the welfare of athletes at all levels of sport and on the approaches taken by sports organisations to prevent and manage these.
In recent years, sports organisations have increased their efforts to ensure athlete health, safety, and well-being, often prompted by high-profile disclosures of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse; bullying; discrimination; disordered eating; addiction; and mental health issues. In this book, contributors lift the lid on these and other issues that jeopardise the physical, emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual welfare of athletes of all ages to raise awareness of the broad range of challenges athletes face. Chapters also highlight approaches to athlete welfare and initiatives taken by national and international sport organisations to provide a safer, more ethical sports environment.
As the first book to focus exclusively on athlete welfare, this is an essential read for students and researchers in sports studies, coaching, psychology, performance, development and management, and physical education. It is also a useful reference point for anyone working in welfare, safeguarding, child protection, and equity and inclusion in and beyond sport.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|41 pages
Conceptualisations of athlete welfare
chapter 3|10 pages
Organisational obligations toward athlete transitions
part II|83 pages
Current concerns in the welfare of athletes
chapter 7|13 pages
Presenteeism in elite sport organisations
chapter 8|11 pages
The issue of athlete welfare and why tackling should be removed from physical education and school sport
chapter 9|14 pages
Welfare and the protection of young athletes
part III|41 pages
Athlete mental health
chapter 15|7 pages
Eating disorders and disordered eating in sport
part IV|38 pages
Equity and inclusion as an athlete welfare concern
chapter 18|13 pages
Locked out
part V|81 pages
New agendas and missing voices
chapter 20|11 pages
The welfare of adolescent high-performance action sport athletes
chapter 21|9 pages
Examinations of sports workers’ welfare in spaces of geopolitical conflict
chapter 23|14 pages
Countering the trajectories towards new forms of violence in youth
chapter 25|11 pages
Factors influencing the mental health of sports match officials
part VI|47 pages
Stakeholders in athlete welfare
chapter 27|10 pages
Consent and complicity
chapter 29|12 pages
Moving beyond unproblematic policy implementation
part VII|59 pages
Approaches to prevention