YOUTH SPORT AND MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION
PERFECT MARRIAGE OR UTOPIA?
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https://doi.org/10.51283/rc.28.e18653Keywords:
Well-Being, Youth, Sport Coach, Psychosocial Development, PoliciesAbstract
The objective of this critical commentary was to identify and reflect on alternatives that may enable youth sport to be reconciled with the promotion of mental health, creating the basis for children and young people to develop in a fair, equitable and inherently healthy way. The reflections and questions posed in this critical commentary aim to stimulate a broad debate particularly in Portugal and Brazil on this topic, with the aim of rescuing youth sport due to the urgency of creating opportunities for children and young people to move their bodies in creative, free and progressively more competent ways testing limits and barriers in a positive and inherently healthy manner. Based on the above, the authors identify a set of alternatives that can help youth sport overcome emerging challenges such as dropout, the existence of various inequities, early professionalization, as well as the importance of responding to the complex needs of children and young people today. In this sense, several questions arise so that youth sport, as a relevant context in promoting mental health, can fulfill its mission instead of deteriorating itself, as well as harming the well-being and quality of life of the most vulnerable – children and young people who enter this space. It is expected that youth sport - health - and mental health will be seen as inseparable concepts, which can enable new ways to organize youth sport offerings in different sociocultural contexts and to inquire.
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