Sports Psychiatry

Informationen zum Autor David R. McDuff! M.D.! is the team psychiatrist and mental skills trainer for the Baltimore Orioles and the Baltimore Ravens. He is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine at the University of Maryland in Baltimore and Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda! Maryland. Klappentext McDuff offers are down-to-earth! insightful! and informed by his many years of experience treating players at the highest level. Practical and compassionate! Sports Psychiatry: Strategies for Life Balance and Peak Performance will be of enormous help to readers inside and outside the sports arena. Zusammenfassung McDuff offers are down-to-earth! insightful! and informed by his many years of experience treating players at the highest level. Practical and compassionate! Sports Psychiatry: Strategies for Life Balance and Peak Performance will be of enormous help to readers inside and outside the sports arena. Inhaltsverzeichnis Forward.; Preface and acknowledgements.; Introduction.; Sports psychiatry: scope of practice.; Mental preparation for individual and team sports.; Stress recognition and control in sports.; Energy regulation and sports.; Substance use and abuse in sports.; Injury recovery and pain control.; Treating common mental disorders in athletes.; Working with teams! medical staffs and sports leadership.; Developmental and cultural competence in sports.; Sports psychiatry: evidence base and future directions.; Index.

Autorentext

David R. McDuff, M.D., is the team psychiatrist and mental skills trainer for the Baltimore Orioles and the Baltimore Ravens. He is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine at the University of Maryland in Baltimore and Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.

Klappentext

McDuff offers are down-to-earth, insightful, and informed by his many years of experience treating players at the highest level. Practical and compassionate, Sports Psychiatry: Strategies for Life Balance and Peak Performance will be of enormous help to readers inside and outside the sports arena.

Inhalt

Forward.; Preface and acknowledgements.; Introduction.; Sports psychiatry: scope of practice.; Mental preparation for individual and team sports.; Stress recognition and control in sports.; Energy regulation and sports.; Substance use and abuse in sports.; Injury recovery and pain control.; Treating common mental disorders in athletes.; Working with teams, medical staffs and sports leadership.; Developmental and cultural competence in sports.; Sports psychiatry: evidence base and future directions.; Index.