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The price she pays : confronting the hidden mental health crisis in women's sports--from the schoolyard to the stadium /

Two experts in mental health and sport lift the veil on the crisis in women's athletics, offering parents and coaches urgently needed advice and support and showing how female athletes can find joy in whatever sport they choose, at whatever level they compete. No matter the sport, the message t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Steele, Katie (Therapist) (Author), Brown, Tiffany (Author), Strout, Erin, 1974- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2024.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Child psychology.
Sports for women > Psychology.
Gender identity in sports.
Women athletes > Mental health.
Transgender athletes > Psychology.
Enfants > Psychologie.
Sports féminins > Psychologie.
Identité de genre dans les sports.
Sportives > Santé mentale.
Sportifs transgenres > Psychologie.
Table of Contents:
  • Author's note
  • Introduction
  • A new way of thinking about women's sports
  • Discovering sports
  • Parenting an athlete
  • Creating healthy coach-athlete relationships
  • Puberty, periods, and playing sports
  • Identifying anxiety and depression
  • Identifying mistreatment and abuse
  • Coping with body image and eating disorders
  • Understanding suicide and self-harm
  • Understanding substance use
  • The paradox of social media
  • Navigating our bodies and our choices
  • Healing in the aftermath of sports
  • After sports: what comes next?
  • Conclusion: Why we have hope
  • Epilogue, from Katie
  • Athlete's bill of rights
  • Gratitude
  • Additional resources
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the authors.