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Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers ISSN 1664-8714 Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial ISBN 978-2-88945-383-2 DOI 10.3389/978-2-88945-383-2 Office:[email protected] Frontiers in Psychology 1 January 2018 | Mental Health Challenges in Elite Sport MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES IN ELITE SPORT: BALANCING RISK WITH REWARD Topic Editors: Tadhg Eoghan MacIntyre, University of Limerick, Ireland Judy Van Raalte, Springfield College, United States Britton W. Brewer, Springfield College, United States Marc Jones, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom Deirdre O’Shea, University of Limerick, Ireland Paul Joseph McCarthy, Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom Image: Jacob Lund/Shutterstock.com Elite sport typically provides obvious rewards in terms of recognition, finance and acclaim for athletic performance. Increasingly, we are becoming aware of the risks that elite athletes, their entourage, including families, sport-science support team and coaches are exposed to. Twelve original articles, seven commentaries and a corrigendum, are structured in a five chap- ter format. Chapter 1, comprising the Editorial is titled “An Overview of Mental Health in Frontiers in Psychology 2 January 2018 | Mental Health Challenges in Elite Sport Elite Sport: Changing the Play Book” to reflect the advocacy role of this article. Chapter 2 (“Finding the Sweet Spot”) amplifies the voice of key stakeholders across three qualitative studies with three additional commentaries. Quantitative evidence is presented in Chapter 3 which has the sub-title the “State of Play.” Chapter 4, entitled the “Field of Play” includes three original publications which present contrasting conceptual approaches to guide researchers in hypothesis generation, formulation and implementation science. Finally, in Chapter 5, “Seeing the Ball Early” prospective perspectives are provided in three publications reinforced by two commentaries. The future thinking ideas includes the use of virtual reality training, a broadening of the concept of mental health literacy, tackling stigma and focusing on the potential positive effect of the natural environment on well-being and recovery. To date the research topic has generated widespread in the field. For example, several articles have generated an Altmetric score above 40 with one publication meriting an Altmetric score of 102. We envisage that the impact of this e-book will not simply be measured in citations, views, downloads nor social media impact, but in the discourse that emerges from this collection of contributions from a combined total of 53 authors from across three continents. It is our hope that this e-book, providing a snapshot of global challenges for elite athletes mental health and well-being, becomes a touchstone for researchers and practitioners in the field. Citation: MacIntyre, T. E., Van Raalte, J., Brewer, B. W., Jones, M., O’Shea, D., McCarthy, P. J., eds. (2018). Mental Health Challenges in Elite Sport: Balancing Risk with Reward. Lausanne: Frontiers Media. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88945-383-2 Frontiers in Psychology 3 January 2018 | Mental Health Challenges in Elite Sport Table of Contents CHAPTER 1: AN OVERVIEW OF MENTAL HEALTH IN ELITE SPORT: CHANGING THE PLAY BOOK 06 Editorial: Mental Health Challenges in Elite Sport: Balancing Risk with Reward Tadhg E. MacIntyre, Marc Jones, Britton W. Brewer, Judy Van Raalte, Deirdre O’Shea and Paul J. McCarthy CHAPTER 2: ACCUMULATING QUALITATIVE EVIDENCE ON MENTAL HEALTH IN ELITE SPORT: FINDING THE SWEET SPOT 10 The Dark Side of Top Level Sport: An Autobiographic Study of Depressive Experiences in Elite Sport Performers Hannah J. H. Newman, Karen L. Howells and David Fletcher 22 Commentary: The Dark Side of Top Level Sport: An Autobiographic Study of Depressive Experiences in Elite Sport Performers Jonathan Males 24 Examining the Role of Mental Health and Clinical Issues within Talent Development Andy Hill, Áine MacNamara, Dave Collins and Sheelagh Rodgers 35 The Experience of Depression during the Careers of Elite Male Athletes Steve Doherty, Barbara Hannigan and Mark J. Campbell 46 Commentary: The Experience of Depression during Careers of Elite Male Athletes Monna Arvinen-Barrow 48 Commentary: The Experience of Depression during the Careers of Elite Male Athletes Alan Ringland CHAPTER 3: ACCUMULATING SURVEY EVIDENCE ON MENTAL HEALTH IN ELITE SPORT: THE STATE OF PLAY 50 Comparison of Athletes’ Proneness to Depressive Symptoms in Individual and Team Sports: Research on Psychological Mediators in Junior Elite Athletes Insa Nixdorf, Raphael Frank and Jürgen Beckmann 58 Commentary: Comparison of Athletes’ Proneness to Depressive Symptoms in Individual and Team Sports: Research on Psychological Mediators in Junior Elite Athletes Anne-Marie Elbe and Stine Nylandsted Jensen 61 Blurred lines: Performance Enhancement, Common Mental Disorders and Referral in the U.K. Athletic Population Claire-Marie Roberts, Andrea L. Faull and David Tod Frontiers in Psychology 4 January 2018 | Mental Health Challenges in Elite Sport 74 Commentary: Blurred lines: Performance Enhancement, Common Mental Disorders and Referral in the U.K. Athletic Population Martin Eubank CHAPTER 4: PARADIGMS, THEORIES AND CONCEPTS: THE FIELD OF PLAY 77 Rational Emotive