Psychological Health and Well-Being Part 2

Question 1

Mental health literacy

Key definition

Answer 1

• refers to the knowledge, understanding, and skills needed to recognize, manage, and support mental health effectively. It
encompasses both individual awareness and the societal capacity to promote mental well-being, reduce stigma, and
encourage appropriate help-seeking behaviors.

Question 2

Mental health literacy

My personal notes

Answer 2

Does not mean you have all the answer, you have awareness and recognize when someone need support, at lesser to the starting point

Question 3

Mental health literacy

Who introduced and for what purpose

Answer 3

• This concept was first introduced by Anthony Jorm in 1997, with
a focus on improving public understanding of mental health

In the past it was metal illness focus

Question 4

Components of Mental Health Literacy

Answer 4

• Knowledge of Mental Health and Illness
• Awareness of Mental Health Promotion
• Help-Seeking Behaviours
• Crisis Management Knowledge

Question 5

Components of Mental Health Literacy: Knowledge of Mental Health and Illness

Answer 5

Need to understand the character istics, the cause, the signs and symptoms, how it operates( 2 continuum model)

Question 6

Components of Mental Health Literacy: Awareness of Mental Health Promotion

Answer 6

Knowing how to maintain good mental health, stress management, building resilience, understanding self care behavviours

Question 7

Components of Mental Health Literacy: Help-Seeking Behaviours

Answer 7

Requires both professional and informal support that are available

Question 8

Components of Mental Health Literacy: Crisis Management Knowledge

Answer 8

We should all have some kind of basic knowledge ehen someone is in need for urgent care, can also call 911

Question 9

• Stigma reduction

Answer 9

• challenging negative attitudes and fostering a more supportive environment

Question 10

Why is Mental Health
Literacy important?

Answer 10

More health literate campus: builds empathy, promotes transparency, building a norm , less burnout and see the signs and symptoms of it for university students

Question 11

Mental Health Literacy: Build Capacity

• It is important that people working with athletes build
capacity

Answer 11

• Recognize symptoms / signs

• Understand available resources

• Be able to direct to available resources

• “Demystify” and destigmatize
-Mental health needs attention just like physical health

• Promote mental wellbeing and flourishing
- Take steps to continually improve and support (ie don’t just treat
issues when they arise, also take steps to build wellbeing)

• Consider screening tools if possible

Question 12

Mental Health Literacy: Build Capacity

• “Demystify” and destigmatize

Answer 12

Dealing down myths and any misconceptions about mental health

Question 13

Mental Health Literacy: Build Capacity

• Promote mental wellbeing and flourishing

Answer 13

It not only about preventing the negative, promoting the positive is just as important

Question 14

Mental Health Literacy: Build Capacity

• Consider screening tools if possible

Answer 14

Athletes getting screened at the start and though out their season,

Question 15

Mental Health Assets
• Promotion of mental health through assets-based approach to intervention:

Answer 15

• Mental Health Asset = “any factor (or resources)
which enhances the ability of individuals, groups,
communities, populations, social systems and / or
institutions to maintain and sustain health and well- being and to help reduce health inequities. These assets can operate at the level of the individual, group, community, and/or population as protective (or promoting) factors to buffer against life’s stresses.”

-It can direct where people
Need to putt their time and effort

Question 16

Resilience: The Sport Context

Answer 16

• Those involved in the sport context will inherently face demands.

• People differ in how they respond to the demands placed on
them.

Question 17

What is resilience?

(Strümpfer, 1999)

Answer 17

“The ability of a substance to recoil, spring back, or
resume its original shape
after bending, stretching, or compressing”

Question 18

What is resilience?

(Galli & Gonzalez, 2015)

Answer 18

“The ability to respond
positively to setbacks,
obstacles, and failures ”

Question 19

What is resilience?

(Best et al., 1990)

Answer 19

“The process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation
despite challenging or threatening
circumstances”

Question 20

What is resilience? (The common SP definition)

Key definition

(Fletcher & Sarkar, 2012)

Answer 20

“The role of mental processes and behaviour in
promoting personal assets and protecting an
individual from the potential negative effect of
stressors”

Question 21

What resilience is not.

(Hamel & Valikangas, 2003)

Answer 21

“Resilience is not about responding to a one time
crisis. It’s not about rebounding from a setback.

It’s about having the capacity to change before the case for change becomes desperately obvious.”

Question 22

What resilience is not:

Key

Answer 22

• Resilience is not:

 A rare, elusive quality found in only certain,
extraordinary people

 A fixed trait (it’s changeable)

 Solely determined by an individual person (There are environmental factors )

 An ability to suppress or ignore emotions

Question 23

Key Points of the Resilience
Definition

Answer 23

• Non-linear
• Dynamic
• Both an outcome and a process

Question 24

How do we build Resilience?

Answer 24

Started with protective factor then moved to promotive factors

Protective Factors :
- “influences that modify, ameliorate, or alter a
person’s response to some environmental hazard
that predisposes to a maladaptive outcome”

Examples: sleep hygiene, good nutrition, social support, self compassion, self efficacy

Question 25

ENHANCING CAPACITY
How do we foster resilience?

Answer 25

• We need to identify factors that predict
resilience.

• Strengths-based approach to psychosocial
development

PROMOTIVE
FACTORS

Question 26

ENHANCING CAPACITY
Promotive factors: Assets & Resources

Answer 26

• Promotive factors: positive individual, social, and contextual
variables that is going to enhance someones resilience In a behaviour

Assets: personal qualities and skills that reside within an individual

Resources: support from outside the individual

Question 27

ENHANCING CAPACITY
Individual Assets

Answer 27

• Optimism
• High personal standards
• Arousal control
• Coping skills
• Self-compassion
• Manage relationships
• Task- / mastery-oriented

• Attentional control / concentration

• Recognize (& perceive) support (Perception of social support is more important than the actual social support )

• Emotion regulation strategies

• Proactive adaption to
environment

• Self-serving & adaptive
attributions

Question 28

ENHANCING CAPACITY
Social and Environmental Resources

Answer 28

• Appropriate levels of CHALLENGE and SUPPORT

• Sensible risk taking

• Constructive feedback

• Learn from mistakes and failure
-FAIL FORWARD

• Task-oriented / mastery-oriented motivational climate
- Process is the focus

• Athletes have input towards goals

Question 29

ENHANCING CAPACITY
Meta-cognition & Meta-emotion

Self awareness,

Answer 29

• Athletes must evaluate their own thoughts and emotions
• Positively evaluate and interpret the pressures/demands encountered
• As well as their thoughts, feelings, and resources
• CHALLENGE MINDSET

Question 30

Enhancing Capacity
• To build resilience, need to address all three areas:

Answer 30

• Assets (personal skills and qualities)

• Resources (including facilitative environments)

• Meta-cognition and meta-emotion (challenge mindset)

Question 31

Enhancing Capacity
• Initiatives should be considered in relation to the athlete’s psychosocial development.

Answer 31

• Debrief activities to
ensure benefits are realized

• Provide opportunity along
with encouragement and
support
- Change over time

Think about the age of the athlete emotional and training

Question 32

The Push for Resilience
• Even when promotive factors are there, recognize that athletes
often need support to develop and execute resilient behaviour

Answer 32

• Establish existing promotive / protective factors
- Capitalize on what is there: What’s working?
-Work to “fill in” the gaps: What needs to be developed?

• Self-awareness (To evaluates what working, what’s not , what need to change, guided by parents friends, coaches )

Question 33

Developing Resilience: The Role of the Environment - Dr. Mustafa
Sarkar

Answer 33

Psychological Health and Well-being in Sport - Part 2

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