Support financial Wellbeing of elite athlete personnel

Financial Education Plan : Creating financial literacy and Numeracy

1. How to keep track

2. Plan ahead

3. Choosing products

4. Keep informed

5. Financial Control

ANCHORED BY VALUES

Support transitions of elite sport personnel

Psyco-Social Transitions whats the risks and challenges faced by an elite Athlete

Use a transition framework to develop transition plans

UNDERSTANDING TRANSITIONS

Anticipated, Unanticipated, Nonevents. MOVING IN, MOVING THROUGH, & MOVING OUT

SITUATION, Trigger Timing and Assessment

SELF, Personal & demographic characteristics . Psychological resources

SUPPORT, Intimate, Family , friends, institutional

STRATEGIES, Effective coping using multiple coping methods

Monitor & respond to Mental health risks in an elite sport enviroNment

DEFINITION OF MENTAL HEALTH : Mental Health can be considered a state of well-being or feeling of value, self worth or unease like if they can or cant cope with the stresses of life, he or she can work productively and are able to make a contribution to his or her family .

When was mental health first discovered While diagnoses were recognized as far back as the Greeks, it was not until 1883 that German psychiatrist Emil Kräpelin (1856–1926) published a comprehensive system of psychological disorders that centered around a pattern of symptoms (i.e., syndrome) suggestive of an underlying physiological cause.

Psychiatric Care in the 1930s: The Lobotomy's Origins. Developed in the 1930s, electroconvulsive therapy involves passing electrical current through the brain. It is still used today to treat the severely mentally ill. ... Many psychiatrists claimed that these therapies worked by "shocking" patients out of their illness.

DSM

This is readily apparent in the DSM-5's proposed definition, which says that a mental disorder is “a behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual.” What does this mean? To start with, it means that disorders are internal.

Chemical Interventions

In the 1940s and 1950s, chemists began to experiment with different powders and pills that could calm imbalances inside the brain and deliver real relief to people who had mental illnesses. Rather than strapping people down to their beds, or asking people to simply talk about their problems, these chemists hoped to use a form of chemical restraint. People would feel better, and they might behave better, and no institutionalization would be needed at all.To a large extent, this was a successful project. Medications like lithium seemed capable of soothing people with very severe cases of bipolar disorder, while antipsychotic medications seemed capable of helping people with schizophrenia.

At the same time, the number of people hospitalized due to mental illness had reached staggering proportions

Deinstitutionalization Movement

Beginning in the 1950s, experts began moving people out of institutions and into communities, and the number of people enrolled in formal institutions dropped dramatically in just a few short years.[9]Unfortunately, communities were slow to adapt to this onslaught of people who needed very intense care.

Few were able to provide the support needed, such as:

• Housing assistance
• Job training
• Psychiatric counseling
• Life skills training
• Social support

As a result, many people who moved out of terrible facilities moved into situations that were merely different, not noticeably better. For example, in a grueling piece from The New York Times, [10] a story emerges of a number of very young men who were removed from state institutions and forced to work in a turkey-processing plant for years, for less than $100 per month. These men had no contact with their families, no opportunities to learn life skills and no way to get out.

Modern Therapies

Community agencies have worked for years to provide people with the help they need to manage their conditions without entering a facility for life. Social workers, mental health counselors and more have all been involved in this movement, and while it’s safe to say that some communities provide help that’s superior to the level of assistance seen in other communities, it’s clear that people have options for treatment today through community resources that just didn’t exist a decade or so ago.

Laws have also changed, and they now allow concerned family members and community members to place people with mental illnesses inside therapeutic facilities for a short period of time, until they gain control. Some state laws even force people with mental illnesses to take medications, even if they don’t wish to do so.

It’s easy to view these legislative changes as a method that can allow people in the community to live with people who have mental illnesses, without worrying about their health and harm. But people who have mental illnesses have rights, and some don’t wish to accept this kind of treatment. Some patients want to manage their own conditions, using online resources as well as their doctors, and they’d like to have much more autonomy.

It’s unclear what role this might play in the future. But it is clear that practitioners now respect people with mental illnesses to an unprecedented degree, compared with previous years. Rather than silencing them with restraints and drugs, experts now want to partner with patients and help them. This could bring about a form of mental health treatment everyone could support.

If you’d like to know more about how mental health issues are treated in Foundations Recovery Network facilities, we urge you to give us a call. Our admissions coordinators are here 24/7 to answer your questions.

Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect

Abstract

Antidepressants are supposed to work by fixing a chemical imbalance, specifically, a lack of serotonin in the brain. Indeed, their supposed effectiveness is the primary evidence for the chemical imbalance theory. But analyses of the published data and the unpublished data that were hidden by drug companies reveals that most (if not all) of the benefits are due to the placebo effect. Some antidepressants increase serotonin levels, some decrease it, and some have no effect at all on serotonin. Nevertheless, they all show the same therapeutic benefit. Even the small statistical difference between antidepressants and placebos may be an enhanced placebo effect, due to the fact that most patients and doctors in clinical trials successfully break blind. The serotonin theory is as close as any theory in the history of science to having been proved wrong. Instead of curing depression, popular antidepressants may induce a biological vulnerability making people more likely to become depressed in the future.

Keywords: depression, antidepressants, effectiveness, serotonin, placebo

Do Placebos work for depression

People with depression who benefited from a placebo showed signature changes in the brain and also responded better to subsequent medication. Gaining a better understanding of how placebos work could lead to the development of more effective therapies for a variety of mental disorders.

Are antidepressants just a placebo?

Although type of medication does not make a clinically significant difference in outcome, response to placebo does. Almost all antidepressant trials include a placebo run-in phase. Before the trial begins, all of the patients are given a placebo for a week or two.

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MENTAL ILL-HEALTH REFERRAL PROCESS

RISK Identification - Screening or Referral - Asses and Treatment - Review - Return - Monitor

Mental health in professional sport

https://www.beyondblue.org.au/personal-best/pillar/in-focus/sport-and-mental-health

Picture this: a group of 30 burly, muscular men are seated in a room. One chair is positioned in front of the group. It’s the speaker’s chair, and the men take it in turns to occupy it. The others listen intently, their gaze not shifting from the person sitting before them. For the person sitting at the front of the room, there’s no topic of discussion, there’s no script and there’s no time limit. What the listeners are inadvertently asking of the speaker is this – let us see you. The real you. Tell us your insecurities, your vulnerabilities, the things that scare you, the times you have felt shame and the times you haven’t felt worthy. Yep, it’s deep. For this reason, more often than not, the words are interspersed with tears. But this isn’t a therapy group.

It’s a sporting team. Some of the team members will have known each other for over a decade, and yet in these brief moments, they will learn more about their mates than ever before.

For more and more elite men’s and women’s sporting teams in Australia and around the world, this scenario is becoming a reality. And it might just be the most important session the team does for the whole season. It follows a growing trend toward embracing the human-first, athlete-second philosophy. A philosophy that emphasises great importance on a person’s mental health.

The buzzword among elite sporting organisations at the moment isn’t toughness or aggression, despite the importance of these traits when the first whistle blows. It’s ‘vulnerability’. From the NBA to the Premier League, from the AFL to the NRL, clubs are rushing to embrace it. Pre-season boot camps have been shunned in favour of these group sessions sitting in a room together, talking about insecurities and weaknesses. So, why the change? First and foremost, it emphasises the importance of honest and meaningful communication. It also creates a strong bond between the players, building a culture of empathy and respect. Players are encouraged to speak up if they are experiencing a tough time or managing a mental health condition such as anxiety or depression. The sporting environment hasn’t always been one that encourages this level of openness when it comes to mental health. It has often been seen as a place where vulnerability is a sign of weakness and a mental health condition as a private battle to be fought but not spoken about.

Perhaps not surprisingly, sporting teams who have embraced vulnerability and open dialogue around mental health have often enjoyed better on-field results. Players are aware of the experiences of their teammates and as the saying goes, are far more ‘willing to run through walls for them’.

SELF DETERMINATON

Apply solution focused coaching with elite athlete personnel

What is Solution Focused Coaching?

What is Coaching?

The term life coaching has entered into everyday language. It’s a catch-all term to describe a professional relationship where a practitioner assists a client to identify and achieve personal (and professional) goals. If we use the transport metaphor, a coach helps you to get from A to B. It works on the principle of ‘two heads are better than one’. You can have coaching for any aspect of life. If you can set a goal for it, you can have coaching for it.

The Coaching Process

Ideally, coaching a collaborative, professional relationship where clients provide the agenda and the coach provides various tools and techniques. The clients bring the content and the coach facilitates the process. Life coaching has its origins in sports coaching and draws from psychology, learning theory, teaching practice, counselling, therapy, and, of course, the self-help movement.

Coaching as Focused Conversations

Put simply, coaching is a series of focused conversations between a practitioner (coach) and you, the client. (It can also be a three-way process between the coach and a couple). Within the process, the coach will assist you, as the client, to assess where you are in your life. This includes your strengths, values and exploring the factors that underpin your motivation (to change). Such understanding will assist you to manage change, clarifying ambitions and achieve your goals. This includes working to create more compelling and robust action plans, unlike New Year’s resolutions that fizzle out after a few weeks. The coach helps you to assess progress and provide feedback to keep you on track. Coaching is about empowerment and building confidence and self-esteem, as you learn the coaching style of thinking. The overall aim is that you acquire the skills to become your own coach once the agreed number of sessions come to an end. In turn, you will be able to build confidence in others by passing on your new insights and skills.

Future Orientation – Solution Focused Coaching

Solution Focused Coaching employs questions that focus and refocus the coaching sessions on solutions, clients’ strengths and on the future. The questions help to focus on the areas of life that are ‘problem free’, such as hobbies, strengths and times of relaxation. They also look help to clarify clients’ coping strategies to highlight transferable skills. Other techniques are designed to explore exceptions to negative evaluations of situations or skill sets. Other questions help clients to create a picture of their ideal future and consider the aspects of this picture that they have already attained and aspects that are within reach. Overall, a Tanzanian Proverb sums up the Solution-Focused approach: ‘Little by little, a little becomes a lot’. Clients are usually surprised how quickly positive changes take place and usually over the course of a few sessions clients have learned a different way of thinking about their lives, their problems and how to focus on solutions.