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  • Sports Psychiatry
  • Mental Health in Athletes
  • Exercise Psychiatry

Background:

  • Sports psychiatry is an emerging medical and psychiatric discipline.
  • Its development and scope of practice are currently inconsistent globally.
  • Existing discussions often occur within sports medicine and elite sports teams.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To establish uniform definitions for sports psychiatry and sports psychiatrists.
  • To develop a framework for essential knowledge, skills, and abilities (eKSA+A) for sports psychiatrists.
  • To standardize the future development and educational curricula of sports psychiatry.

Main Methods:

  • Convened an International Society for Sports Psychiatry (ISSP) Summit.
  • Developed the First International Consensus Statement on Sports Psychiatry.
  • Defined three primary fields of activity within sports psychiatry.

Main Results:

  • Identified three key areas: mental health in elite sports, exercise for mental disorders, and recreational sports mental health.
  • Established a framework for essential knowledge, skills, and abilities (eKSA+A) tailored to each field.
  • Created unified definitions for sports psychiatry and the role of a sports psychiatrist.

Conclusions:

  • The developed definitions and eKSA+A framework aim to unify and standardize sports psychiatry.
  • These standards will help establish consistent service quality in collaboration with related disciplines.
  • Recommendations include integrating these standards into current and future sports psychiatry education and training programs.