Enhancing athletes' and coaches' overall well-being and performance
Mental performance and mental health services aim to enhance athletes’ and coaches’ overall well-being and performance. These services offer strategies to develop performance-enhancing skills, understand the mind-body connection, and improve social dynamics. They also provide essential resources and education to navigate mental health challenges, fostering a holistic approach to achieving high-performance goals in sport.
What is Mental Performance?
Mental Performance addresses the psychology of sport performance. Mental performance plays a key role within the high-performance sport environment for all those involved from individual athletes and teams to coaches and support staff. Considerable evidence gathered over several decades has demonstrated that a performer’s mental state has a vital impact on performance; training the mind for success is an essential ingredient alongside the physical, technical, and tactical training and preparation to achieve high performance goals in competition.
What is Mental Health?
Mental health is a state of well-being in which an individual realizes his or her own abilities to cope with normal stressors of life, can work productively and contributes to their community. Everyone has a level of mental health, and it is personal and subjective. It can include one’s sense of well-being, feeling in line and at peace with one’s own values and beliefs, and feeling positive and optimistic about life.
Mental Health and Mental Performance Services
Mental performance and mental health service delivery is designed to provide important information on performance and wellbeing strategies to help athletes and coaches reach their potential in sport.
The goal of mental performance and mental health services is to help athletes and coaches:
- Develop performance enhancing skills and tools that relate to the context of the sport.
- develop an understanding for the mind-body connect and how the mind influences performance.
- Enhance mental health and the ability to navigate mental health resources.
- Enhance social/team dynamics.
- Provide coach education integrating mental performance and mental health strategies into the DTE.
