Promoting mental health literacy

Question 1

What is mental health help-seeking and what are different sources for it?

Question 2

What are key components of mental health literacy?

Answer 2

Understanding of how to obtain and maintain good mental health
Understanding mental disorders and their treatments
Decreasing stigma related to mental disorders
Enhancing help-seeking efficacy

Question 3

Discuss low levels of mental health literacy’s effect on help-seeking

Question 4

Discuss high levels of stigma’s effect on help-seeking

Question 5

What are intervention approaches to enhancing help-seeking and MHL or reducing stigma in sport

Answer 5

BASES Expert Statement on Mental Health Literacy in Elite Sport 2017 (Gorcynski et al., 2017)

Question 6

CARDS FOR EACH INTERVENTION APPRAISE !!!

Question 7

What are the recommendations of the BASES Expert Statement on Mental Health Literacy?

Answer 7

1. View MHL as a process, starting MHL training at an early training age, specific to each stage of development and ongoing
   - key whilst brain is still malleable and developing. Aimed at 5-19 years olds as peak age of onset is between 16-25 so can help to prevent occurring
2. Mental health literacy programmes need to be designed with critical contextual awareness
   - should consider organisation goals and proactivley address unique challenges associated with a particular sport
3. Mental health programmes need to be designed with collective awareness and address mental health of all indivs involved in elite sports
4. Researchers must design evidence-based MHL programmes
   - Establish links between MHL and mental health in elite sports
   - Develop and use valid and reliable measures of mental health literacy and mental health outcomes
   - Identify the determinants of MHL and mental health
   - evaluate MHL interventions to improve mental health outcomes
   - Translated MHL interventions and distribute them for widespread practice

Question 8

Discuss recommendation for improving help-seeking, mental heatlth literacy, and/ or stigma

Question 9

Discuss recommendations for screening athletes’ mental health and discuss the IOC’s Mental Health Assessment and Recognition tools