In WHO own words "The Guidelines on promotive and preventive mental health interventions for adolescents - Helping Adolescents thrive (HAT), provide evidence-informed recommendations on psychosocial interventions to promote mental health, prevent mental disorders, and reduce self-harm and other risk behaviours among adolescents."
We salute this important document with enthusiasm, and invite everyone to give it the visibility and publicity its aims deserve. If you haven't yet, download from here
It is however slightly discouraging to see that, yet again, exercise and physical activity promotion are basically ignored (except for a few episodic references to preexisting guidelines)... this, despite the ever growing evidences of the bidirectional relationships existing between exercise and mental health... we need to do better and lobby for recognition in International guidelines and policy making.
To get started, here is some recommended reading material:
- Ahead of the game protocol: a multi-component, community sport-based program targeting prevention, promotion and early intervention for mental health among adolescent males
- Addressing mental health through sport: a review of sporting organizations' websites
- The direct and indirect effects of motor competence on adolescents' mental health through health-related physical fitness
- The effects of martial arts participation on mental and psychosocial health outcomes: a randomised controlled trial of a secondary school-based mental health promotion program
- Exercise therapy improves both mental and physical health in patients with major depression
- Motivating factors and barriers towards exercise in severe mental illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- In the beginning: role of autonomy support on the motivation, mental health and intentions of participants entering an exercise referral scheme
- Psychologically informed physical therapy for musculoskeletal pain: current approaches, implications, and future directions from recent randomized trials
- A pain science education and walking program to increase physical activity in people with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis: a feasibility study
If you believe we have missed out on essential literature, or have any comment, we would love to hear from you and will update this post accordingly (crediting you for the suggestion ;) ). So offer us feedback in the comments below, or visiting our webpages
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