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. Contents: Table of Contents Introduction Melanie Lang Part I: Conceptualisations of Athlete Welfare 1 Developments in International Policy on Athlete Welfare Melanie Lang 2 Scientism and the Welfare of Athletes: Minds, Brains, Genes and Agency Leon Culbertson 3 Organisational Obligations Toward Athlete Transitions: Confronting the bureaucratisation of Athlete Welfare with an Ethics of Care G. Z. Kohe and L. G. Purdy 4 Athlete Shaming and the Ethics of Care: Opposing Forces in Sport Coaching Emily McCullogh and Parissa Safai Part II: Current Concerns in the Welfare of Athletes 5 Gendered Violence in Women`s Artistic Gymnastics: A Sociological Analysis Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Astrid Schubring and Carly Stewart 6 Psychological Abuse in Competitive and High-Performance Women`s Volleyball Alixandra Krahn 7 Presenteeism in Elite Sport Organisations: A Framework for Understanding Athletes` Decisions to Practice Sport Despite Health Concerns Jochen Mayer, Felix Kühnle and Ansgar Thiel 8 The Issue of Athlete Welfare and Why Tackling Should be Removed from Physical Education and School Sport: #BanTackling Adam J. White 9 Welfare and the Protection of Young Athletes: An Analysis of the Nature and Prevalence of Bullying Behaviours in Sport Settings Miguel Nery, Carlos Neto, António Rosado and Peter K. Smith 10 Degrading and Harming New Teammates During Hazing: `Athletes will be Athletes`' Jennifer J. Waldron 11 Exploring the Links Between Self-directed Violence and Child Maltreatment and Bullying in Sport Sylvie Parent, Judith Kotiuga, Tine Vertommen and Kristine Fortier Part III: Athlete Mental Health 12 Mental Health in Sport Brad Donohue and Davy Phrathep 13 Suicide Among Athletes Ashwin L. Rao 14 The Athlete and Addiction Darwyn Jones 15 Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating in Sport: The Hidden Role of Sporting Organisations and How the Cycle Can be Broken Jenny McMahon Part IV: Equity and Inclusion as an Athlete Welfare Concern 16 The Welfare of Disabled People in Sport Hayley Fitzgerald 17 Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Racist Ruptures in US Youth Soccer Alex Manning 18 Locked Out: Examining Binary-gendered Locker Rooms as a Key Site for Trans Athlete Welfare Ali Greey Part V: New Agendas and Missing Voices 19 Virtual Technologies as Tools of Maltreatment: Safeguarding in Digital Spaces Emma Kavanagh, Chelsea Litchfield and Jaquelyn Osborne 20 The Welfare of Adolescent High-performance Action Sport Athletes: The Case of Young Commercially Sponsored Dutch Kite Surfers Froukje Smits 21 Examinations of Sports Workers` Welfare in Spaces of Geopolitical Conflict: `The Country is Under Threat, but the Game Goes On` L. G. Purdy, G. Z. Kohe and R. Paulauskas 22 Pasifika Rugby Migration and Athlete Welfare: Stairway to Heaven David Lakisa, Jack Sugden and Brent McDonald 23 Countering the Trajectories Towards New Forms of Violence in Youth: Enhancing Protective Factors Through Sports Dean M. Ravizza 24 Sexual Abuse `Survivor` Research in Sport Colin Harris and Mike Hartill 25 Factors Influencing the Mental Health of Sports Match Officials: The Potential Impact of Abuse and a Destabilised Support System from a Global Context Tom Webb and Paul Gorczynski Part VI: Stakeholders in Athlete Welfare 26 The Role of Parents in Promoting the Welfare of Children Involved in Sport Camilla J. Knight, Olivier Y. Rouquette and Maita G. Furusa 27 Consent and Complicity: The Athletes` Role in the Normalisation of Damaging Coaching Practices Chris Zehntner 28 Athlete Welfare in Coach-athlete Romantic Relationships Susanne Johansson 29 Moving Beyond Unproblematic Policy Implementation: Some Micro-level Reflections on Social Interaction, Emotion and the Enactment of Safeguarding Policy in Sport Andrea Scott-Bell, Karl Wharton and Paul Potrac Part VII: Approaches to Prevention 30 Protection of the Athlete: Activities of the International Olympic Committee Margo Mountjoy, Kirsty Burrows, and Susan Greinig 31 Criminal Record Checks as a Tool to Prevent Child Abuse in Sport Melanie Lang and Maria Papaefstathiou 32 Protecting Athletes Against Sexual Violence: A Club-based Approach from Germany Bettina Rulofs 33 Measuring the Prevalence of Interpersonal Violence Against Children in Sport Tine Vertommen and Sylvie Parent 34 Advancing Autonomy-supportive Coaching Through the Application of the Transtheoretical Model Joseph Gurgis, Gretchen Kerr and Ashley Stirling
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