Sport Psychiatry: Theory and Practice

Book Overview

For mental health professionals, sports medicine specialists, physicians, coaches, and other sports enthusiasts, Sport Psychiatry: Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the psychological challenges and pitfalls of being an athlete. From Little League to the Olympics, it tracks the lives of athletes: their biopsychosocial development, family issues, drug use and abuse, mental disorders, performance issues, and treatment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393702952
• ISBN13: 9780393702958
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"