Sport Psychology Defined/Foundations
Anshel, M. H., Petrie, T. A., & Steinfeldt, J. A. (2019). APA handbook of sport and exercise psychology, volume 1: Sport psychology, Vol. 1.
Gardner, F., & Moore, Z. (2006). Clinical sport psychology. Human kinetics.
Larsen, C. H., Moesch, K., Durand-Bush, N., & Henriksen, K. (Eds.). (2021). Mental health in elite sport: Applied perspectives from across the globe. Routledge.
Moore, Z. E., & Bonagura, K. (2017). Current opinion in clinical sport psychology: from athletic performance to psychological well-being. Current opinion in psychology, 16, 176-179.
Murphy, S. (Ed.). (2012). The Oxford handbook of sport and performance psychology. Oxford University Press.
Van Raalte, J. L., & Brewer, B. W. (Eds.). (2014). Exploring sport and exercise psychology (pp. xxiii-561). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Ethical Self-Awareness Checklist for Sport Psychologists
Moore, Z. E. (2003). Ethical dilemmas in sport psychology: Discussion and recommendations for practice. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 34(6), 601.
Ethics
Aoyagi, M. W., & Portenga, S. T. (2010). The role of positive ethics and virtues in the context of sport and performance psychology service delivery. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 41(3), 253–259. https://doi.org/10.1037/A0019483
Brown, J. L., & Cogan, K. D. (2006). Ethical Clinical Practice and Sport Psychology: When Two Worlds Collide. Ethics & Behavior, 16(1), 15–23. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327019EB1601_3
Etzel, E. F., & Skvarla, L. A. (2017). Ethical considerations in sport and performance psychology. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology.
Fogaca, J. L., Watson, J. C., & Zizzi, S. (2020). The Journey of Service Delivery Competence in Applied Sport Psychology: The Arc of Development for New Professionals. Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology, 14(2), 109–126. https://doi.org/10.1123/JCSP.2019-0010
Haluch, P., Radcliffe, J., & Rowley, C. (2022). The quest for professional self-understanding: Sense making and the interpersonal nature of applied sport psychology practice. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 34(6), 1312-1333.
McGee, S., Kerr, G., Atkinson, M., & Stirling, A. (2024). “I always just viewed it as part of sport”: Psychological maltreatment and conformity to the sport ethic. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 1-20.
Moore, Z. E. (2003). Ethical Dilemmas in Sport Psychology: Discussion and Recommendations for Practice. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 34(6), 601–610. https://doi.org/10.1037/0735-7028.34.6.601
Ryba, T. V., Schinke, R. J., Quartiroli, A., Wong, R., & Gill, D. L. (2024). ISSP position stand on cultural praxis in sport psychology: Reaffirming our commitments to the ethics of difference, cultural inclusion, and social justice. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 22(3), 533-552.
Quartiroli, A., Schinke, R. J., Giffin, C., Vosloo, J., & Fisher, L. A. (2023). Cultural competence in a multinational group of sport psychology professionals. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 35(6), 919-940.
Quartiroli, A., Fogaça, J. L., & Wagstaff, C. R. D. (2022). Professional training and development: The bedrock of ethical, competent, and sustainable sport psychology. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 35(3), 349–371.
Quartiroli, A., Harris, B. S., Brückner, S., Chow, G. M., Connole, I. J., Cropley, B., … & Zito, M. (2021). The International Society of Sport Psychology Registry (ISSP-R) ethical code for sport psychology practice. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 19(6), 907-928.
Watson, J. C., Gonzalez, M., Harris, B., & Wayda, V. (2023). Professional Considerations for the Clinician. In Routledge Handbook of Mental Health in Elite Sport (pp. 313-328). Routledge.
Watson, J. C., Harris, B. S., & Baillie, P. (2020). Ethical issues impacting the profession of sport psychology. Handbook of sport psychology, 751-772.
Watson, J. C. II, & Etzel, E. F. (2019). Ethical and legal issues in sport and performance psychology. In M. H. Anshel, T. A. Petrie, & J. A. Steinfeldt (Eds.), APA handbook of sport and exercise psychology: Sport psychology (pp. 821–838). American Psychological Association.
Watson II, J. C., Way, W. C., & Hilliard, R. C. (2017). Ethical issues in sport psychology. Current opinion in psychology, 16, 143-147.
Mental Health and High-Performance Sport
American Psychiatric Association. (2023). Understanding mental disorders: Your guide to DSM-5-TR®. American Psychiatric Pub.
Baker, J., Safai, P., & Fraser-Thomas, J. (Eds.). (2014). Health and elite sport: Is high performance sport a healthy pursuit?. Routledge.
Balcombe, L., Balcombe, L., & De Leo, D. (2020). Psychological screening and tracking of athletes and digital mental health solutions in a hybrid model of care: Mini review. 4(12).
Bauman, N. J. (2016). The stigma of mental health in athletes: are mental toughness and mental health seen as contradictory in elite sport?. British journal of sports medicine, 50(3), 135-136.
Beebe, K. E., & Petrie, T. A. (n.d.). On the Frontline of Athlete Mental Health: The Mental Health Literacy of NCAA Coaches. Sport Psychologist.
Blashfield, R. K., & Burgess, D. R. (2012). Classification provides an essential basis for organizing mental disorders. In The great ideas of clinical science (pp. 123-148). Routledge.
Breslin, G., Breslin, G., Smith, A., Donohue, B., Donnelly, P., Shannon, S., Haughey, T., Vella, S. A., Swann, C., Cotterill, S. T., MacIntyre, T. E., Rogers, T., & Leavey, G. (2019). International consensus statement on the psychosocial and policy-related approaches to mental health awareness programmes in sport. BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine, 5(1), 1–24.
Chang, C. J., Putukian, M., Aerni, G., Diamond, A. B., Hong, E. S., Ingram, Y. M., Reardon, C. L., & Wolanin, A. T. (2020). Mental Health Issues and Psychological Factors in Athletes: Detection, Management, Effect on Performance, and Prevention: American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Position Statement. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 30(2).
Day, M., & Wadey, R. (2022). Sport injury psychology: An overview and introduction to the special issue. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 34(5), 913-915.
Di Fronso, S., & Budnik-Przybylska, D. (2023). Sport Psychology Interventions for Athletes’ Performance and Well-Being. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(4), 3712.
Gorczynski, P., Currie, A., Gibson, K., Gouttebarge, V., Hainline, B., Castaldelli-Maia, J. M., … & Swartz, L. (2021). Developing mental health literacy and cultural competence in elite sport. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 33(4), 387-401.
Gouttebarge, V., Bindra, A., Drezner, J. A., Mkumbuzi, N. S., Patricios, J. S., Rao, A. L., Thornton, J. S., Watson, A. M., & Reardon, C. L. (2022). Minds matter: how COVID-19 highlighted a growing need to protect and promote athlete mental health. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 56(17), 953–954.
Gucciardi, D. F., Hanton, S., & Fleming, S. (2017). Are mental toughness and mental health contradictory concepts in elite sport? A narrative review of theory and evidence. Journal of science and medicine in sport, 20(3), 307-311.
Fadare, S. A., Mae, I. L., Ermalyn, L. P., Kharen, M. G., & Ken, P. L. (2022). Athletes’ Health and Well-Being: A Review of Psychology’s State of Mind. American Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Innovation, 1(4), 44–50.
Fortington, L. V., Badenhorst, M., Derman, W., Emery, C. A., Pasanen, K., Schwellnus, M., Verhagen, E., & Finch, C. F. (2024). What impact have the IOC medical consensus statements made on athlete health? A survey of medical commissions from National Olympic/Paralympic Committees and International Sports Federations. BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine, 10.
Furtaw, P. C. (2020). Mental Health Treatment Engagement of Athletes: Self-Determination Theory as a “Prescription for Excellence” (pp. 223–230). Springer, Cham.
Harrison, J. E., Weber, S., Jakob, R., & Chute, C. G. (2021). ICD-11: an international classification of diseases for the twenty-first century. BMC medical informatics and decision making, 21, 1-10.
Henriksen, K., Schinke, R., Moesch, K., McCann, S., Parham, W. D., Larsen, C. H., & Terry, P. (2020). Consensus statement on improving the mental health of high performance athletes. International journal of sport and exercise psychology, 18(5), 553-560.
Henriksen, K., Schinke, R., McCann, S., Durand-Bush, N., Moesch, K., Parham, W. D., .& Hunziker, J. (2020). Athlete mental health in the Olympic/Paralympic quadrennium: a multi-societal consensus statement. International journal of sport and exercise psychology, 18(3), 391-408.
Henriksen, K., Huang, Z., Bartley, J., Kenttä, G., Purcell, R., Wagstaff, C. R. D., Si, G., Ge, Y., & Schinke, R. J. (2024). The role of high-performance sport environments in mental health: an international society of sport psychology consensus statement. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 1–23.
Kavanagh, E., Adams, A., Lock, D., Stewart, C., & Cleland, J. (2020). Managing abuse in sport: An introduction to the special issue. Sport management review, 23(1), 1-7.
Kenttä, G., Dieffenbach, K., Bentzen, M., Thompson, M., Côté, J., Mallett, C., & Olusoga, P. (2024). Position paper: Rationale for a focused attention on mental health of high-performance sports coaches. International Sport Coaching Journal, 11(3), 457-465.
Kremžar Jovanović, B., Smrdu, M., Holnthaner, R., & Kajtna, T. (2022). Elite sport and sustainable psychological well-being. Sustainability, 14(5), 2705.
Lin, C. H., Lu, F. J., Chen, T. W., & Hsu, Y. (2022). Relationship between athlete stress and burnout: a systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 20(5), 1295-1315.
Lundqvist, C., Andersson, G., & Andersson, G. (2021). Let’s Talk About Mental Health and Mental Disorders in Elite Sports: A Narrative Review of Theoretical Perspectives. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 700829.
Mack, A., Baron, D., & Reinert, J. (2023). The role of mental health care in reaching optimal performance in sports. Sports Psychiatry.
Marks, D. R., Wolanin, A. T., & Shortway, K. M. (Eds.). (2021). The Routledge handbook of clinical sport psychology. Routledge.
Moesch, K., Kenttä, G., Kleinert, J., Quignon-Fleuret, C., Cecil, S., & Bertollo, M. (2018). FEPSAC position statement: Mental health disorders in elite athletes and models of service provision. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 38, 61-71.
Monfared, S. S., Lebeau, J. C., Mason, J., Cho, S. K., Basevitch, I., Perry, I., … & Tenenbaum, G. (2021). A bio-physio-psychological investigation of athletes’ burnout. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 92(1), 189-198.
Mountjoy, M., Junge, A., Bindra, A., Blauwet, C. A., Budgett, R., Currie, A., Engebretsen, L., Hainline, B., McDuff, D. R., Purcell, R., Putukian, M., Reardon, C. L., Soligard, T., & Gouttebarge, V. (2023). Surveillance of athlete mental health symptoms and disorders: a supplement to the International Olympic Committee’s consensus statement on injury and illness surveillance. British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Norris, L. A., Didymus, F. F., & Kaiseler, M. (2017). Stressors, coping, and well-being among sports coaches: A systematic review. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 33, 93-112.
Nixdorf, I., Nixdorf, R., Beckmann, J., Martin, S. B., & MacIntyre, T. E. (Eds.). (2023). Routledge handbook of mental health in elite sport. Taylor & Francis Group.
Pilkington, V., Rice, S. M., Olive, L., Walton, C. C., & Purcell, R. (2024). Athlete Mental Health and Wellbeing During the Transition into Elite Sport: Strategies to Prepare the System. 10.
Pensgaard, A. M., Sundgot-Borgen, J., Edwards, C., Jacobsen, A. U., & Mountjoy, M. (2023). Intersection of mental health issues and Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs): a narrative review by a subgroup of the IOC consensus on REDs. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 57, 1127–1135.
Poucher, Z. A., Tamminen, K. A., Kerr, G., & Cairney, J. (2021). A commentary on mental health research in elite sport. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 33(1), 60-82.
Pujalte, G. G., Narducci, D. M., Smith, M. S., King, R., Logan, K., Callender, S. S., … & Khodaee, M. (2023). Athletes with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: position statement of the American medical Society for sports medicine. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 33(3), 195-208.
Purcell, R., Henderson, J., Tamminen, K. A., Frost, J., Gwyther, K., Kerr, G., & Walton, C. C. (2023). Starting young to protect elite athletes’ mental health. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 57(8), 439-440.
Rice, S. M., Purcell, R., De Silva, S., Mawren, D., McGorry, P. D., & Parker, A. G. (2016). The mental health of elite athletes: A narrative systematic review. Sports medicine, 46, 1333-1353.
Reardon, C. L., Hainline, B., Aron, C. M., Baron, D., Baum, A. L., Bindra, A., Budgett, R., Campriani, N., Castaldelli-Maia, J. M., Currie, A., Derevensky, J. L., Glick, I. D., Gorczynski, P., Gouttebarge, V., Grandner, M. A., Han, D. H., McDuff, D. R., Mountjoy, M., Polat, A., … Engebretsen, L. (2019). Mental health in elite athletes: International Olympic Committee consensus statement (2019). British Journal of Sports Medicine, 53(11), 667–699.
Reardon, C. L. (2021). The mental health of athletes: recreational to elite. Current Sports Medicine Reports, 20(12), 631-637.
Rogers, D., Tanaka, M. J., Cosgarea, A. J., Ginsburg, R., & Dreher, G. (2023). How Mental Health Affects Injury Risk and Outcomes in Athletes. Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach.
Röthlin, P., Håkansson, A., & Claussen, M. (2023). Sports psychology and sports psychiatry together for athletes’ mental health. Sports Psychiatry.
Schinke, R. J., Giffin, C., Cosh, S., Douglas, K., Rhind, D., Harwood, C., … & Papaiounnou, A. (2024). International Society of Sport Psychology Position Stand: Mental Health through Occupational Health and Safety in High-Performance Sport. In Mental Health in Sport and Physical Activity (pp. 21-49). Routledge.
Schinke, R. J., Stambulova, N. B., Si, G., & Moore, Z. (2018). International society of sport psychology position stand: Athletes’ mental health, performance, and development. International journal of sport and exercise psychology, 16(6), 622-639.
Swartz, L., Hunt, X., Bantjes, J., Hainline, B., & Reardon, C. L. (2019). Mental health symptoms and disorders in Paralympic athletes: a narrative review. British journal of sports medicine, 53(12), 737-740.
Tranæus, U., Gledhill, A., Johnson, U., Podlog, L., Wadey, R., Tranæus, U., & Ivarsson, A. (2024). 50 Years of Research on the Psychology of Sport Injury: A Consensus Statement. Sports Medicine.
Van Slingerland, K. J., Durand-Bush, N., Bradley, L., Goldfield, G. S., Archambault, R., Smith, D., Edwards, C. D., Delenardo, S., Taylor, S., Werthner, P., & Kenttä, G. (2019). Canadian Centre for Mental Health and Sport (CCMHS) Position Statement: Principles of Mental Health in Competitive and High-Performance Sport. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 29(3), 173–180.
Walton, C. C., Rice, S., Hutter, R. V., Currie, A., Reardon, C. L., & Purcell, R. (2021). Mental health in youth athletes: a clinical review. Advances in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, 1(1), 119-133.
Identity Formation in Athletes
Brewer, B. W., & Petitpas, A. J. (2017). Athletic identity foreclosure. Current opinion in psychology, 16, 118-122.
Chun, Y., Wendling, E., & Sagas, M. (2023). Identity work in athletes: A systematic review of the literature. Sports, 11(10), 203.
DeFreese, J. D., & Shannon, J. (2021). The role of athletic identity foreclosure in the development of poor athlete mental health. Developing and Supporting Athlete Wellbeing, 239-256.
Farello, A., Trajkovski, M., & Massey, W. V. (2025). Journey to the top: The non-linear path of identity foreclosure and exploration and its implications for mental health in female professional athletes. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 1-21.
Haslam, C., McAulay, C., Cooper, D., Mertens, N., Coffee, P., Hartley, C., … & Fransen, K. (2024). “I’m more than my sport”: Exploring the dynamic processes of identity change in athletic retirement. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 73, 102640.
Lochbaum, M., Cooper, S., & Limp, S. (2022). The athletic identity measurement scale: A systematic review with meta-analysis from 1993 to 2021. European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education, 12(9).
Mendez, K. C. (2022). A study on student-athlete identity foreclosure: what academic and professional support services are needed to assist with a successful post-sport transition. Texas Christian University.
Romano, R. J. (2023). Gain insight into athletic identity foreclosure and the student‐athlete. College Athletics and the Law, 19(11), 5-9.
Personality Disorders
Edwards, C. (2022). Personality disorders. In Mental health care for elite athletes (pp. 97-103). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
González-Hernández, J., Baños, R., Morquecho-Sánchez, R., Pineda-Espejel, H. A., & Chamorro, J. L. (2023). Perfectionism patterns, dark personality, and exercise addiction trend in high-intensity sports. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 21(1), 308-320.
Magnavita, J. J. (1997). Restructuring personality disorders: A short-term dynamic approach. Guilford Press.
Magnavita, J. J. (1999). Methods of restructuring personality disorders with comorbid syndromes. In Session: Psychotherapy in Practice: Psychotherapy in Practice, 4(4), 73-89.
Magnavita, J. J. (Ed.). (2004). Handbook of personality disorders: Theory and practice. John Wiley & Sons.
Magnavita, J. J. (2010). Evidence-based treatment of personality dysfunction: Principles, methods, and processes (pp. xii-322). American Psychological Association.
Magnavita, J. J. (2011). Reflections on personality systematics and a unified clinical science. In Paradigms in theory construction (pp. 207-216). New York, NY: Springer New York.
Magnavita, J. J., Magnavita, E. G., & Ingram, B. L. (2024). Unified psychotherapeutics: Are we any closer to our aspirations and what are the dangers?. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 34(3), 315.
Tamminen, K. A., Bonk, D., Milne, M. J., & Watson, J. C. (2025). Emotion dysregulation, performance concerns, and mental health among Canadian athletes. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 2962.
Developmental Transitions
Brown, C. J., Webb, T. L., Robinson, M. A., & Cotgreave, R. (2018). Athletes’ experiences of social support during their transition out of elite sport: An interpretive phenomenological analysis. Psychology of sport and exercise, 36, 71-80.
Bundon, A., Ashfield, A., Smith, B., & Goosey-Tolfrey, V. L. (2018). Struggling to stay and struggling to leave: The experiences of elite para-athletes at the end of their sport careers. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 37, 296-305.
Cartigny, E., Harrison, G., Vickers, E., & Potrac, P. (2024). “What am I doing here?” Experiences of unsuccessful and delayed successful crisis transitions during athlete migration. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 22(5), 1264-1281.
Cosh, S. M., McNeil, D. G., & Tully, P. J. (2021). Poor mental health outcomes in crisis transitions: an examination of retired athletes accounting of crisis transition experiences in a cultural context. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 13(4), 604-623.
Dunn, R., & Tamminen, K. A. (2022). “When are you gonna commit?” Exploring the experiences of youth athletes and their parents prior to a sporting transition. International journal of sport and exercise Psychology, 20(4), 1175-1192.
Esopenko, C., Coury, J. R., Pieroth, E. M., Noble, J. M., Trofa, D. P., & Bottiglieri, T. S. (2020). The psychological burden of retirement from sport. Current Sports Medicine Reports, 19(10), 430-437.
Henriksen, K., Stambulova, N., Storm, L. K., & Schinke, R. (2024). Towards an ecology of athletes’ career transitions: conceptualization and working models. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 22(7), 1684-1697.
Hong, H. J., & Allen, J. (2022). An exploration of the resources of high-performance athletes and coaches to cope with unexpected transitions. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 11(4), 412.
Hong, H. J., & Fraser, I. (2023). High-performance athletes’ transition out of sport: developing corporate social responsibility. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 15(4), 725-741.
Kite, R. J., & Parris, Z. (2025). Athletes’ transitions from part-time to full-time performance programmes: Athletes’ and coaches’ perceptions. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 17479541251334740.
Leonard, J. M., & Schimmel, C. J. (2017). Theory of work adjustment and student-athletes’ transition out of sport. Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, 10(1), 30.
Manthey, C., & Smith, J. (2023). You need to allow yourself to grieve that loss and that identity.” College Athletes’ Transition to Life After College Sport. Journal of Athlete Development and Experience, 5(1), 2.
Siekanska, M., & Blecharz, J. (2020). Transitions in the careers of competitive swimmers: to continue or finish with elite sport?. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(18), 6482.
Stambulova, N., Alfermann, D., Statler, T., & CôTé, J. E. A. N. (2009). ISSP position stand: Career development and transitions of athletes. International journal of sport and exercise psychology, 7(4), 395-412.
Stambulova, N., & Wylleman, P. (2014). Athletes’ career development and transitions. In Routledge companion to sport and exercise psychology (pp. 605-620). Routledge.
Stambulova, N. (2016). Athletes’ transitions in sport and life: positioning new research trends within the existing system of athlete career knowledge. In Routledge international handbook of sport psychology (pp. 519-535). Routledge.
Stambulova, N. B. (2017). Crisis-transitions in athletes: Current emphases on cognitive and contextual factors. Current opinion in psychology, 16, 62-66.
Stambulova, N. B., Ryba, T. V., & Henriksen, K. (2021). Career development and transitions of athletes: The international society of sport psychology position stand revisited. International journal of sport and exercise psychology, 19(4), 524-550.
Stambulova, N., & Henriksen, K. (2025). Career transitions in sport: Bridging holistic developmental and ecological approaches. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 102900.
Stambulova, N., Samuel, R. D., & Schinke, R. (2025). Working with sport clients in transitions: A Commentary on where we are and where to go next. Journal of Sport Psychology in Action, 16(2), 165-171.
Stambulova, N., & Schinke, R. J. (2025). A commentary: Aspiring athletes’ transition literacy and beyond. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 1-14.
Voorheis, P., Silver, M., & Consonni, J. (2023). Adaptation to life after sport for retired athletes: a scoping review of existing reviews and programs. Plos one, 18(9), e0291683.
Wylleman, P., & Rosier, N. (2016). Holistic perspective on the development of elite athletes. In Sport and exercise psychology research (pp. 269-288). Academic Press.
Sport Injuries
Arvinen-Barrow, M., Clement, D., Hemmings, B., & Ford, J. L. (2024). Imagery in Sport Injury and Rehabilitation. In The psychology of sport injury and rehabilitation (pp. 243-257). Routledge.
Behzadnia, B.Fazeli, H.Rezaei, F.Moazam, S. (2024) The relationship between motivational regulations and intention to continue sport in injured athletes. Journal of Motor Control and Learning, 6(2) ,e144545
Brewer, B. W. (2017). Psychological responses to sport injury. In Oxford research encyclopedia of psychology.
Burland, J. P., Toonstra, J. L., & Howard, J. S. (2019). Psychosocial barriers after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a clinical review of factors influencing postoperative success. Sports Health, 11(6), 528-534.
Chang, C. J., Putukian, M., Aerni, G., Diamond, A. B., Hong, E. S., Ingram, Y. M., … & Wolanin, A. T. (2020). Mental health issues and psychological factors in athletes: detection, management, effect on performance, and prevention: American medical society for sports medicine position statement. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 30(2), e61-e87.
Daley, M. M., Griffith, K., Milewski, M. D., & Christino, M. A. (2021). The mental side of the injured athlete. JAAOS-Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 29(12), 499-506.
Forsdyke, D., Gledhill, A., & Ardern, C. (2017). Psychological readiness to return to sport: three key elements to help the practitioner decide whether the athlete is REALLY ready?. British journal of sports medicine, 51(7), 555-556.
Goddard, K., Roberts, C. M., Byron-Daniel, J., & Woodford, L. (2021). Psychological factors involved in adherence to sport injury rehabilitation: a systematic review. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 14(1), 51-73.
Gledhill, A., Forsdyke, D., & Murray, E. (2018). Psychological interventions used to reduce sports injuries: a systematic review of real-world effectiveness. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 52(15), 967-971.
Guerrero, M., & Martin, J. (2018). Para sport athletic identity from competition to retirement: A brief review and future research directions. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics, 29(2), 387-396.
Everhart, J. S., Harris, K., Chafitz, A., Kirven, J. C., Abouljoud, M., Schiele, S., … & Flanigan, D. C. (2020). Psychological assessment tools utilized in sports injury treatment outcomes research: a review. Journal of sports science & medicine, 19(2), 408.
Hainline, B., Turner, J. A., Caneiro, J. P., Stewart, M., & Moseley, G. L. (2017). Pain in elite athletes—neurophysiological, biomechanical and psychosocial considerations: a narrative review. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 51(17), 1259-1264.
Ivarsson, A., Johnson, U., Andersen, M. B., Tranaeus, U., Stenling, A., & Lindwall, M. (2017). Psychosocial factors and sport injuries: meta-analyses for prediction and prevention. Sports medicine, 47, 353-365.
Ivarsson, A., Tranaeus, U., Johnson, U., & Stenling, A. (2017). Negative psychological responses of injury and rehabilitation adherence effects on return to play in competitive athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Open access journal of sports medicine, 27-32.
Katz, J., & Waumsley, J. A. (2024). Counseling Skills in Sport Injury and Rehabilitation. In The Psychology of Sport Injury and Rehabilitation (pp. 121-135). Routledge.
Overbye, M. (2021). Walking the line? An investigation into elite athletes’ sport-related use of painkillers and their willingness to use analgesics to train or compete when injured. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 56(8), 1091-1115.
Padaki, A. S., Noticewala, M. S., Levine, W. N., Ahmad, C. S., Popkin, M. K., & Popkin, C. A. (2018). Prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among young athletes after anterior cruciate ligament rupture. Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine, 6(7), 2325967118787159.
Register-Mihalik, J. K., DeFreese, J. D., Callahan, C. E., & Carneiro, K. (2020). Utilizing the biopsychosocial model in concussion treatment: post-traumatic headache and beyond. Current Pain and Headache Reports, 24, 1-7.
Rollo, I., Carter, J. M., Close, G. L., Yangüas, J., Gomez-Diaz, A., Medina Leal, D., … & Podlog, L. (2021). Role of sports psychology and sports nutrition in return to play from musculoskeletal injuries in professional soccer: an interdisciplinary approach. European journal of sport science, 21(7), 1054-1063.
Russell, H. C., Tracey, J., Wiese-Bjornstal, D. M., & Canzi, E. (2018). Physical activity in former competitive athletes: the physical and psychological impact of musculoskeletal injury. Quest, 70(3), 304-320.
Sutcliffe, J. H., & Greenberger, P. A. (2020). Identifying psychological difficulties in college athletes. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, 8(7), 2216-2219.
Tamminen, K. A., & Watson, J. C. (2022). Emotion focused therapy with injured athletes: Conceptualizing injury challenges and working with emotions. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 34(5), 958-982.
Truong, L. K., Mosewich, A. D., Holt, C. J., Le, C. Y., Miciak, M., & Whittaker, J. L. (2020). Psychological, social and contextual factors across recovery stages following a sport-related knee injury: a scoping review. British journal of sports medicine, 54(19), 1149-1156.
Turner, S., Langdon, J., Shaver, G., Graham, V., Naugle, K., & Buckley, T. (2017). Comparison of psychological response between concussion and musculoskeletal injury in collegiate athletes. Sport, exercise, and performance psychology, 6(3), 277.
Weiß, M., Büttner, M., & Richlan, F. (2024). The role of sport psychology in injury prevention and rehabilitation in junior athletes. Behavioral Sciences, 14(3), 254.
Yung, K. K., Ardern, C. L., Serpiello, F. R., & Robertson, S. (2022). A framework for clinicians to improve the decision-making process in return to sport. Sports medicine-open, 8(1), 52.
Zideman, D. A., Derman, W., Hainline, B., Moseley, G. L., Orchard, J., Pluim, B. M., … & Turner, J. A. (2018). Management of pain in elite athletes: identified gaps in knowledge and future research directions. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 28(5), 485-489.
Online Abuse
Kavanagh, E., Litchfield, C., & Osborne, J. (2019). Sporting women and social media: Sexualization, misogyny, and gender-based violence in online spaces. International Journal of Sport Communication, 12(4), 552-572.
Kavanagh, E., Jones, I., & Sheppard-Marks, L. (2020). Towards typologies of virtual maltreatment: Sport, digital cultures & dark leisure. In Re-thinking leisure in a digital age (pp. 75-88). Routledge.
Kavanagh, E., Litchfield, C., & Osborne, J. (2020). Virtual technologies as tools of maltreatment: Safeguarding in digital spaces. In Routledge handbook of athlete welfare (pp. 221-230). Routledge.
Kavanagh, E., Litchfield, C., & Osborne, J. (2022). Social media, digital technology and athlete abuse. In Sport, social media, and digital technology: Sociological approaches (pp. 185-204). Emerald Publishing Limited.
Kavanagh, E. J., Litchfield, C., & Osborne, J. (2023). Social media and athlete welfare. International Journal of Sport Communication, 16(3), 274-281.
Kavanagh, E., & Mountjoy, M. (2024). CyberAbuse in sport: beware and be aware!. British journal of sports medicine, 58(22), 1313-1315.
Kearns, C., Sinclair, G., Black, J., Doidge, M., Fletcher, T., Kilvington, D., … & Rosati, P. (2023). A scoping review of research on online hate and sport. Communication & Sport, 11(2), 402-430.
Kilvington, D., & Price, J. (2019). Tackling social media abuse? Critically assessing English football’s response to online racism. Communication & Sport, 7(1), 64-79.
Mountjoy, M., Vertommen, T., Tercier, S., Greinig, S., & Burrows, K. (2022). SafeSport: perceptions of harassment and abuse from elite youth athletes at the Winter Youth Olympic Games, Lausanne 2020. Clinical journal of sport medicine, 32(3), 297-305.
Ng, T., Sanders, H., Merrill, S., & Faustin, M. (2024). Media’s effect on athletes’ mental health. Clinics in sports medicine, 43(1), 187-198.
Sanderson, J., Zimmerman, M., Stokowski, S., & Fridley, A. (2020). “You had one job!” A case study of maladaptive parasocial interaction and athlete maltreatment in virtual spaces. International Journal of Sport Communication, 13(2), 221-238.
Sekendiz, B. (2024). Risk of online abuse in social media: Legal and safety risk management strategies for athlete welfare in a technology-driven era. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 27, S25.
Substance Abuse
Collomp, K., Ericsson, M., Bernier, N., & Buisson, C. (2022). Prevalence of prohibited substance use and methods by female athletes: evidence of gender-related differences. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 4, 839976.
de Grace, L. A., Knight, C. J., Rodgers, W. M., & Clark, A. M. (2017). Exploring the role of sport in the development of substance addiction. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 28, 46-57.
Dougherty III, J. W., & Baron, D. (2022). Substance use and addiction in athletes: The case for neuromodulation and beyond. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(23), 16082.
Haider, R., Das, G. K., Ahmed, Z., Zameer, S., & Mehdi, A. (2025). Drugs and their use in Sports. J. Clinical Orthopedics and Trauma Care, 7(2), 2694-0248.
Hurst, P. (2023). Are dietary supplements a gateway to doping? A retrospective survey of athletes’ substance use. Substance Use & Misuse, 58(3), 365-370.
Kilmer, J. R., Pasquariello, C. D., & Ferrera, A. J. (2020). Alcohol and Substance Abuse and Sport. Mental Health in the Athlete: Modern Perspectives and Novel Challenges for the Sports Medicine Provider, 103-113.
Kilmer, J. R., Gilson, M. S., & Graupensperger, S. (2023). Substance misuse and athletic performance. In The Youth Athlete (pp. 605-613). Academic Press.
Martens, M. P. (2017). Alcohol abuse and drug use in sport and performance. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology.
McDuff, D., Stull, T., Castaldelli-Maia, J. M., Hitchcock, M. E., Hainline, B., & Reardon, C. L. (2019). Recreational and ergogenic substance use and substance use disorders in elite athletes: a narrative review. British journal of sports medicine, 53(12), 754-760.
McDuff, D. R., Garvin, M., & Thompson, D. L. (2022). Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders. Mental Health Care for Elite Athletes, 131-143.
McDuff, D. R., Garvin, M., Chang, J., & Thompson, D. (2024). Substance Misuse in Elite Athletes: Early Detection, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment. Clinics in Sports Medicine, 43(1), 127-144.
Murray, K., Murphy, C., Herlihy, A., McCaffrey, J., Codd, M., & Murray, F. E. (2022). Harmful alcohol consumption in elite sports players in Ireland. Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971-), 1-8.
O’Kane, M., & Foote, B. (2021). Substance use in athlete populations: Prevalence and theories. In The Routledge handbook of clinical sport psychology (pp. 107-118). Routledge.
Palmer, C. (2018). Drugs, alcohol, and addiction in sport. In Sport, mental illness, and sociology (Vol. 11, pp. 111-125). Emerald Publishing Limited.
Reardon, C. L., & Benoy, R. (2023). Doping and Drug Misuse in Elite Sport. In Routledge Handbook of Mental Health in Elite Sport (pp. 300-310). Routledge.
Reardon, C. L., & Benoy, R. (2023). Addiction (Drugs and Gambling) Disorders in Athletes. In Routledge Handbook of Mental Health in Elite Sport (pp. 121-129). Routledge.
Stuart, M., & Mottram, D. (2019). New IOC certificate in drugs in sport supports healthcare professionals to lead on effective clinical drug use and doping prevention in athletes. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 53(1), 48-49.
Walters, P., Hillier, B., Passetti, F., Soni, A., & Treasaden, I. (2021). Diagnosis and Management of Substance Use Disorders in Athletes. Advances in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, 1(1), 135-143.
Zandonai, T., & Camporesi, S. (2024). Pain management in elite sport: A doping problem, a public health ethics issue, or both?. Performance Enhancement & Health, 12(4).
Performance Enhancing Drugs
Aguilar-Navarro, M., Salinero, J. J., Muñoz-Guerra, J., Plata, M. D. M., & Del Coso, J. (2020). Sport-specific use of doping substances: analysis of world anti-doping agency doping control tests between 2014 and 2017. Substance Use & Misuse, 55(8), 1361-1369.
Atkinson, T. S., & Kahn, M. J. (2020). Blood doping: Then and now. A narrative review of the history, science and efficacy of blood doping in elite sport. Blood reviews, 39, 100632.
Elbe, A. M., & Barkoukis, V. (2017). The psychology of doping. Current opinion in psychology, 16, 67-71.
Engelberg, T., Moston, S., & Blank, C. (2019). Coaches’ awareness of doping practices and knowledge about anti-doping control systems in elite sport. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 26(1), 97-103.
Fincoeur, B., Henning, A., & Ohl, F. (2020). Fifty shades of grey? On the concept of grey zones in elite cycling. Performance Enhancement & Health, 8(2-3), 100179.
Frias, F. J. L. (2022). The “big red bull” in the esports room: anti-doping, esports, and energy drinks. Performance Enhancement & Health, 10(1), 100205.
Gilberg, R., Breivik, G., & Loland, S. (2020). Anti-doping in sport: The Norwegian perspective. In Doping in Sport (pp. 158-177). Routledge.
Gleaves, J., Petróczi, A., Folkerts, D., De Hon, O., Macedo, E., Saugy, M., & Cruyff, M. (2021). Doping prevalence in competitive sport: evidence synthesis with “best practice” recommendations and reporting guidelines from the WADA Working Group on Doping Prevalence. Sports Medicine, 51(9), 1909-1934.
Goh, C. L. (2021). The challenge of regulating doping and non-doping ‘performance-enhancing strategies’ in elite sports. The international sports law journal, 21(1), 47-61.
Henning, A., McLean, K., Andreasson, J., & Dimeo, P. (2021). Risk and enabling environments in sport: Systematic doping as harm reduction. International Journal of Drug Policy, 91, 102897.
Heuberger, J. A., & Cohen, A. F. (2019). Review of WADA prohibited substances: limited evidence for performance-enhancing effects. Sports Medicine, 49(4), 525-539.
Heuberger, J. A., Henning, A., Cohen, A. F., & Kayser, B. (2022). Dealing with doping. A plea for better science, governance and education. British journal of clinical pharmacology, 88(2), 566-578.
Hurst, P., Ring, C., & Kavussanu, M. (2020). An evaluation of UK athletics’ clean sport programme in preventing doping in junior elite athletes. Performance Enhancement & Health, 7(3-4), 100155.
Kabiri, S., Shadmanfaat, S. M., Howell, C. J., Donner, C., & Cochran, J. K. (2022). Performance-enhancing drug use among professional athletes: A longitudinal test of social learning theory. Crime & Delinquency, 68(5), 867-891.
Kayser, B., Mauron, A., & Miah, A. (2020). Current anti-doping policy: a critical appraisal. In The ethics of sports technologies and human enhancement (pp. 29-38). Routledge.
Kegelaers, J., Wylleman, P., De Brandt, K., Van Rossem, N., & Rosier, N. (2018). Incentives and deterrents for drug-taking behaviour in elite sports: a holistic and developmental approach. European sport management quarterly, 18(1), 112-132.
La Gerche, A., & Brosnan, M. J. (2018). Drugs in sport—a change is needed, but what?. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 27(9), 1099-1104.
La Vignera, S., Condorelli, R. A., Cannarella, R., Duca, Y., & Calogero, A. E. (2018). Sport, doping and female fertility. Reproductive biology and endocrinology, 16, 1-10.
Ljungqvist, A. (2017). Brief history of anti-doping. Acute Topics in Anti-Doping, 62, 1-10.
Naughton, M., Salmon, P. M., Kerherve, H. A., & McLean, S. (2025). Applying a systems thinking lens to anti-doping: A systematic review identifying the contributory factors to doping in sport. Journal of Sports Sciences, 43(1), 8-22.
Petróczi, A. (2021). Why clean sport is more than just drug-free. Nature, 592(7852), S16.
Pöppel, K. (2021). Efficient ways to combat doping in a sports education context!? A systematic review on doping prevention measures focusing on young age groups. Frontiers in sports and active living, 3, 673452.
Russell, J. S., & Browne, A. (2018). Performance-enhancing drugs as a collective action problem. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 45(2), 109-127.
Schneider, A. J., & Hong, F. (Eds.). (2020). Doping in sport: global ethical issues. Routledge.
Smith, A. C., & Stavros, C. (2020). Exploring the progressive use of performance enhancing substances by high-performance athletes. Substance Use & Misuse, 55(6), 914-927.
Ware, M. A., Jensen, D., Barrette, A., Vernec, A., & Derman, W. (2018). Cannabis and the health and performance of the elite athlete. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 28(5), 480-484.
Watson, C. J., Stone, G. L., Overbeek, D. L., Chiba, T., & Burns, M. M. (2022). Performance‐enhancing drugs and the Olympics. Journal of Internal Medicine, 291(2), 181-196.
Weber, K., Patterson, L. B., & Blank, C. (2022). Doping in disabled elite sport: perceptions, knowledge and opinions from the perspective of German and UK coaches. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 62, 102233.
Woolf, J., Mazanov, J., & Connor, J. (2017). The Goldman dilemma is dead: what elite athletes really think about doping, winning, and death. International journal of sport policy and politics, 9(3), 453-467.
Multidisciplinary Teamwork
Brocherie, F., & Beard, A. (2021). All alone we go faster, together we go further: The necessary evolution of professional and elite sporting environment to bridge the gap between research and practice. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2, 631147.
Burns, A., & Collins, D. (2023). Interdisciplinary practice in performance sport: A scoping review of evidence of collaboration. European Journal of Sport Science, 23(9), 1877-1891.
Burns, L., Stanimirovic, R., & Donaldson, A. (2024). Characteristics of successful performance support team members at the Olympic games. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 19(5), 1950-1960.
King, R., Yiannaki, C., Kiely, J., Rhodes, D., & Alexander, J. (2024). Multi-disciplinary Teams in High Performance Sport, The What and The How: A Utopian View or a Darker Reality. Journal of Expertise, 7(4), 149-174.
King, R., McHugh, D., Alexander, J., Kiely, J., Yiannaki, C., & Rhodes, D. (2024). Multi-Disciplinary Team Practitioners Working in High Performance Sport: Skilled intuitive ‘doers’ or novel problem-solving innovators. European Journal of Sports Sciences, 3(2), 15-26.
Reid, C., Stewart, E., & Thorne, G. (2004). Multidisciplinary sport science teams in elite sport: Comprehensive servicing or conflict and confusion?. The Sport Psychologist, 18(2), 204-217.
Rothwell, M., Davids, K., Stone, J., O’Sullivan, M., Vaughan, J., Newcombe, D., & Shuttleworth, R. (2020). A department of methodology can coordinate transdisciplinary sport science support. Journal of Expertise, 3(1), 55-65.
Salcinovic, B., Drew, M., Dijkstra, P., Waddington, G., & Serpell, B. G. (2022). Factors influencing team performance: what can support teams in high-performance sport learn from other industries? A systematic scoping review. Sports Medicine-Open, 8(1), 25.
Schneider, P., & Schmitz, H. (2025). Ethical Issues in Multidisciplinary Teams: The Conflict of the Sport Psychologist’s Dual Role. In Professional Skills in Sport Psychology Consultancy (pp. 163-175). Routledge.
Stewart, P., Fletcher, D., Arnold, R., & McEwan, D. (2024). Performance support team effectiveness in elite sport: a narrative review. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 1-24.
Stewart, P., Fletcher, D., Arnold, R., & McEwan, D. (2024). Exploring perceptions of performance support team effectiveness in elite sport. Sport Management Review, 27(2), 300-321.
Wilson, P. J., Roe, G., & Kiely, J. (2025). How Do They Decide? Performance Support Staff Perceptions of Decision-Making in Elite-Sport Environments. The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research, 39(2), 192-199.
Youngson, J. W. (2018). Moving from multidisciplinary to interdisciplinary support teams in high performance sport: A strength and conditioning perspective (Doctoral dissertation, University of Canberra).
Complex Systems and Sport
Araújo, D., & Davids, K. (2016). Team synergies in sport: theory and measures. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 1449.
Balague, N., Torrents, C., Hristovski, R., Davids, K., & Araújo, D. (2013). Overview of complex systems in sport. Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, 26, 4-13.
Balagué, N., Torrents, C., Hristovski, R., & Kelso, J. (2017). Sport science integration: An evolutionary synthesis. European journal of sport science, 17(1), 51-62.
Bar-Yam, Y. (2002). General features of complex systems. Knowledge management, organizational intelligence and learning, and complexity, 1, 43-95.
Bar-Yam, Y. (2003). Complex systems and sports: complex systems insights to building effective teams. Cambridge (MA): NECSI.
Davids, K., Hristovski, R., Araújo, D., Serre, N. B., Button, C., & Passos, P. (Eds.). (2014). Complex systems in sport (p. 272). London: Routledge.
Estrada, E. (2024). What is a complex system, after all?. Foundations of Science, 29(4), 1143-1170.
Fasey, K. J., Sarkar, M., Wagstaff, C. R., & Johnston, J. (2022). Understanding organizational resilience in elite sport: An exploration of psychosocial processes. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 62, 102236.
Lebed, F., & Bar-Eli, M. (2013). Complexity and control in team sports: Dialectics in contesting human systems. Routledge.
Mack, M. G., Huddleston, S., Dutler, K. E., & Mintah, J. K. (2000). Chaos theory: A new science for sport behavior?.
McLean, S., Robertson, S., & Salmon, P. M. (2025). Complexity and systems thinking in sport. Journal of Sports Sciences, 43(1), 1-5.
Northrop, R. B. (2014). Introduction to complexity and complex systems. CRC press.
Pol, R., Balagué, N., Ric, A., Torrents, C., Kiely, J., & Hristovski, R. (2020). Training or synergizing? Complex systems principles change the understanding of sport processes. Sports Medicine-Open, 6, 1-13.
Proctor, R. W., & Van Zandt, T. (2018). Human factors in simple and complex systems. CRC press.
Woods, C. T., McKeown, I., Shuttleworth, R. J., Davids, K., & Robertson, S. (2019). Training programme designs in professional team sport: An ecological dynamics exemplar. Human movement science, 66, 318-326.
Yung, K. K., Ardern, C. L., Serpiello, F. R., & Robertson, S. (2022). Characteristics of complex systems in sports injury rehabilitation: examples and implications for practice. Sports medicine-open, 8(1), 24.
System Approaches to Prevention
Arango, C., Díaz-Caneja, C. M., McGorry, P. D., Rapoport, J., Sommer, I. E., Vorstman, J. A., … & Carpenter, W. (2018). Preventive strategies for mental health. The Lancet Psychiatry, 5(7), 591-604.
Bu, D., Chung, P. K., Zhang, C. Q., Liu, J., & Wang, X. (2020). Mental health literacy intervention on help-seeking in athletes: a systematic review. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(19), 7263.
Butz, M. R. (2018). Chaos and complexity: Implications for psychological theory and practice. CRC Press.
Chowdhury, L. (2024). Mental wellbeing technologies in high-performance sport: Current knowledge and future directions.
Chow, G. M., Bird, M. D., Gabana, N. T., Cooper, B. T., & Becker, M. A. S. (2020). A program to reduce stigma toward mental illness and promote mental health literacy and help-seeking in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I student-athletes. Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology, 15(3), 185-205.
Crane, M. F., Falon, S. L., Kho, M., Moss, A., & Adler, A. B. (2022). Developing resilience in first responders: Strategies for enhancing psychoeducational service delivery. Psychological services, 19(S2), 17.
Dallmann, P., Bach, C., Zipser, H., Thomann, P. A., & Herpertz, S. C. (2016). Evaluation of a stress prevention program for young high-performance athletes. Mental Health & Prevention, 4(2), 75-80.
Dolan, N., Simmonds‐Buckley, M., Kellett, S., Siddell, E., & Delgadillo, J. (2021). Effectiveness of stress control large group psychoeducation for anxiety and depression: Systematic review and meta‐analysis. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 60(3), 375-399.
Drew, M. K., Toohey, L. A., Smith, M., Baugh, C. M., Carter, H., McPhail, S. M., … & Appaneal, R. (2023). Health systems in high-performance sport: key functions to protect health and optimize performance in elite athletes. Sports Medicine, 53(8), 1479-1489.
Gorczynski, P., Currie, A., Gibson, K., Gouttebarge, V., Hainline, B., Castaldelli-Maia, J. M., … & Swartz, L. (2021). Developing mental health literacy and cultural competence in elite sport. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 33(4), 387-401.
Heath, R. A. (2004). Complexity and mental health. Complexity for clinicians, 83-94.
Kenttä, G., Dieffenbach, K., Bentzen, M., Thompson, M., Côté, J., Mallett, C., & Olusoga, P. (2024). Position paper: Rationale for a focused attention on mental health of high-performance sports coaches. International Sport Coaching Journal, 11(3), 457-465.
Lundqvist, C., Schary, D. P., Jacobsson, J., Korhonen, L., & Timpka, T. (2024). Aligning categories of mental health conditions with intervention types in high-performance sports: A narrative cornerstone review and classification framework. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport.
Mughairbi, F. A., Abdulaziz Alnajjar, A., & Hamid, A. (2020). Effects of psychoeducation and stress coping techniques on posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. Psychological reports, 123(3), 710-724.
Mana, A., Bauer, G. F., Magistretti, C. M., Sardu, C., Juvinyà-Canal, D., Hardy, L. J., … & Sagy, S. (2021). Order out of chaos: Sense of coherence and the mediating role of coping resources in explaining mental health during COVID-19 in 7 countries. SSM-Mental Health, 1, 100001.
Olive, L., Rice, S., Butterworth, M., Spillane, M., Clements, M., & Purcell, R. (2021). Creating a national system to support mental health and enhance well-being across high performance sport. In Mental Health in Elite Sport (pp. 68-79). Routledge.
Peters, A., Tapia, J., & Clines, S. H. (2021). The Effectiveness of a Psychoeducational Program in Increasing Mental Health Knowledge in Collegiate Athletes: A Critically Appraised Topic. International Journal of Athletic Therapy and Training, 27(3), 107-111.
Pilkington, V., Rice, S., Olive, L., Walton, C., & Purcell, R. (2024). Athlete mental health and wellbeing during the transition into elite sport: strategies to prepare the system. Sports medicine-open, 10(1), 24.
Purcell, R., Pilkington, V., Carberry, S., Reid, D., Gwyther, K., Hall, K., … & Rice, S. (2022). An evidence-informed framework to promote mental wellbeing in elite sport. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 780359.
Richter, D., & Dixon, J. (2023). Models of mental health problems: a quasi-systematic review of theoretical approaches. Journal of Mental Health, 32(2), 396-406.
Ross, E., Gupta, L., & Sanders, L. (2018). When research leads to learning, but not action in high performance sport. Progress in brain research, 240, 201-217.
Smyth, E. A., Newman, P., Waddington, G., Weissensteiner, J. R., & Drew, M. K. (2019). Injury prevention strategies specific to pre-elite athletes competing in Olympic and professional sports—a systematic review. Journal of science and medicine in sport, 22(8), 887-901.
Schiepek, G. K., Viol, K., Aichhorn, W., Hütt, M. T., Sungler, K., Pincus, D., & Schöller, H. J. (2017). Psychotherapy is chaotic—(not only) in a computational world. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 379.
Scheffer, M., Bockting, C. L., Borsboom, D., Cools, R., Delecroix, C., Hartmann, J. A., … & Nelson, B. (2024). A dynamical systems view of psychiatric disorders—theory: a review. JAMA psychiatry, 81(6), 618-623.
Sulprizio, M., Kleinert, J., & Belz, J. (2021). Mental health in Germany: examples of good practice in preventing mental disorders and promoting mental health in elite athletes. In Mental Health in Elite Sport (pp. 25-35). Routledge.
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Performance Enhancement
Araújo, D., Davids, K., & Renshaw, I. (2020). Cognition, emotion and action in sport: an ecological dynamics perspective. Handbook of sport psychology, 535-555.
Beatty, G. F., & Janelle, C. M. (2020). Emotion regulation and motor performance: An integrated review and proposal of the Temporal Influence Model of Emotion Regulation (TIMER). International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 13(1), 266-296.
Bigliassi, M., Ocubaro, A. M., Lima-Silva, A. E., Buzzachera, C. F., & Bertuzzi, R. (2022). Psychological and psychophysiological mechanisms underlying the effects of meditation during moderate-intensity exercise. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 20(3), 936-964.
Bird, M. D., Swann, C., & Jackman, P. C. (2024). The what, why, and how of goal setting: A review of the goal-setting process in applied sport psychology practice. Journal of applied sport psychology, 36(1), 75-97.
Brito, M. A. D., Fernandes, J. R., Esteves, N. S. A., Müller, V. T., Alexandria, D. B., Pérez, D. I. V., … & Miarka, B. (2022). The effect of neurofeedback on the reaction time and cognitive performance of athletes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, 868450.
Brown, D. J., & Fletcher, D. (2017). Effects of psychological and psychosocial interventions on sport performance: A meta-analysis. Sports Medicine, 47, 77-99.
Charest, J., & Grandner, M. A. (2022). Sleep and athletic performance: impacts on physical performance, mental performance, injury risk and recovery, and mental health: an update. Sleep medicine clinics, 17(2), 263-282.
Corrado, S., Tosti, B., Mancone, S., Di Libero, T., Rodio, A., Andrade, A., & Diotaiuti, P. (2024). Improving mental skills in precision sports by using neurofeedback training: a narrative review. Sports, 12(3), 70.
Da Costa Dutra, S. C., Oriol Granado, X., Paéz-Rovira, D., Díaz, V., Carrasco-Dajer, C., & Izquierdo, A. (2023). Emotion regulation strategies in educational, work and sport contexts: an approach in five countries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(19), 6865.
Domingos, C., Peralta, M., Prazeres, P., Nan, W., Rosa, A., & Pereira, J. G. (2021). Session frequency matters in neurofeedback training of athletes. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 46, 195-204.
Ely, F. O., Munroe-Chandler, K. J., & McCullagh, P. (2020). The practice of imagery: a review of 25 Years of applied sport imagery recommendations: Journal of Imagery Research in Sport and Physical Activity. Journal of Imagery Research in Sport and Physical Activity, 15(1).
Ferguson, K. N., & Hall, C. (2020). Sport biofeedback: exploring implications and limitations of its use. The Sport Psychologist, 34(3), 232-241.
Galanis, E., Hatzigeorgiadis, A., Comoutos, N., Papaioannou, A., Morres, I. D., & Theodorakis, Y. (2022). Effects of a strategic self-talk intervention on attention functions. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 20(5), 1368-1382.
Gao, Q., & Zhang, L. (2023). Brief mindfulness meditation intervention improves attentional control of athletes in virtual reality shooting competition: Evidence from fNIRS and eye tracking. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 69, 102477.
Hatzigeorgiadis, A., & Galanis, E. (2017). Self-talk effectiveness and attention. Current opinion in psychology, 16, 138-142.
Headrick, J., Renshaw, I., Davids, K., Pinder, R. A., & Araújo, D. (2015). The dynamics of expertise acquisition in sport: The role of affective learning design. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 16, 83-90.
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