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Guidelines for a sport specific Employee Assistance Programme

Dissertation (MSD (Employee Assistance Programme))--University of Pretoria, 2006.

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spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/28809 Guidelines for a sport specific Employee Assistance Programme Terblanche, Lourie tamsyn.basson@essexcc.gov.uk Basson, Tamsyn Performance Players Eap Sport environment Elite athletes UCTD Dissertation (MSD (Employee Assistance Programme))--University of Pretoria, 2006. The need for an EAP in a sport environment is considered on the basis of a questionnaire completed by a group of Netball players and an overview of the high performance environment of elite athletes. The questionnaire covered the personal, work(career), home and sporting environments of the respondents with a view to identify those stressors that could possibly impact on performance on the playing field. The particular profile of the responding group of Netball players is taken into consideration. Responses received from the group of Netball players together with the characteristics of the high pressure world of high performance or “elite” athletes provides insight into the nature of the related factors at work in this environment. General principles involved in EAP, as applicable in normal workplace situations, are reviewed and the support services provided compared with the support services generally available to athletes. Support services provided by sports organisations are essentially focused on the physical well-being of the athlete and very little is available to attend to the emotional needs of athletes. The stressful environment within which elite athletes function impact the mental well-being of athletes dramatically and interventions are required to ensure that performance quality is not affected. It is concluded that existing support services for athletes are deficient with respect to their emotional needs. By extending traditional athlete support systems to include the basic principles of EAP it is possible to support both the physical and emotional needs of elite athletes. Guidelines for such a sport specific EAP is provided. Copyright 2004, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. Please cite as follows: Basson, T 2004, Guidelines for a sport specific Employee Assistance Programme, MSD dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10182005-105208 / > Social Work and Criminology unrestricted 2013-09-07T14:16:44Z 2005-10-18 2013-09-07T14:16:44Z 2005-01-21 2006-10-18 2005-10-18 Dissertation Basson, T 2005, Guidelines for a sport specific Employee Assistance Programme, MSD dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28809 > http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28809 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10182005-105208/ © 2005, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria
spellingShingle Performance
Players
Eap
Sport environment
Elite athletes
UCTD
Guidelines for a sport specific Employee Assistance Programme
title Guidelines for a sport specific Employee Assistance Programme
title_full Guidelines for a sport specific Employee Assistance Programme
title_fullStr Guidelines for a sport specific Employee Assistance Programme
title_full_unstemmed Guidelines for a sport specific Employee Assistance Programme
title_short Guidelines for a sport specific Employee Assistance Programme
title_sort guidelines for a sport specific employee assistance programme
topic Performance
Players
Eap
Sport environment
Elite athletes
UCTD
url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28809
http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10182005-105208/