TY - CHAP
T1 - Ahead of the game
T2 - International scale-up of evidence-based mental health programming
AU - Vella, Stewart A.
AU - Liddle, Sarah K.
AU - Schweickle, Matthew J.
AU - Swann, Christian
AU - Lim, Angelina
AU - Arnold, Emily
AU - Liddelow, Caitlin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 selection and editorial matter, Gavin Breslin and Gerard Leavey; individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Ahead of the Game (AOTG) is a comprehensive multi-level, multi-component programme for adolescent males delivered through community sporting clubs and organisations. The programme includes four components, two interventions for adolescents targeting mental health literacy and resilience, a parent mental health literacy intervention, and an intervention for coaches aimed at helping them to facilitate self-determined motivation. AOTG is primarily a mental health promotion and prevention programme that also promotes early intervention for mental illness and available support services. Targeting mental health literacy, help-seeking, stigma, and resilience in adolescent males is important for a number of reasons. Mental disorders are recognised as one of the most prominent contributors to the global burden of disease among young people, and they carry significant personal, social, and economic costs that can last a lifetime. At both the individual intervention and full AOTG programme level, implementation has been shown to have meaningful benefits for adolescent male mental health.
AB - Ahead of the Game (AOTG) is a comprehensive multi-level, multi-component programme for adolescent males delivered through community sporting clubs and organisations. The programme includes four components, two interventions for adolescents targeting mental health literacy and resilience, a parent mental health literacy intervention, and an intervention for coaches aimed at helping them to facilitate self-determined motivation. AOTG is primarily a mental health promotion and prevention programme that also promotes early intervention for mental illness and available support services. Targeting mental health literacy, help-seeking, stigma, and resilience in adolescent males is important for a number of reasons. Mental disorders are recognised as one of the most prominent contributors to the global burden of disease among young people, and they carry significant personal, social, and economic costs that can last a lifetime. At both the individual intervention and full AOTG programme level, implementation has been shown to have meaningful benefits for adolescent male mental health.
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UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315147703/mental-health-well-being-interventions-sport-gerard-leavey-gavin-breslin
U2 - 10.4324/9781003291695-7
DO - 10.4324/9781003291695-7
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85191140275
SN - 9781032271835
T3 - Routledge Psychological Interventions
SP - 83
EP - 100
BT - Mental Health and Well-Being Interventions in Sport
A2 - Breslin, Gavin
A2 - Leavey, Gerard
PB - Taylor & Francis
ER -
