Suicide in professional and amateur athletes : incidence, risk factors, and prevention / edited by David Lester And John F. Gunn III (with 7 other contributors).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This book looks at the problem of why so many professional and amateur athletes kill themselves. Professional athletes lead what seem to us to be glamorous lives and make large, and sometimes huge, salaries. In schools, the athletes are often the formal and informal leaders, given recognition and honors. News of their suicides shocks us because, to the rest of us, these are the successful members of our society, often looked up to as heroes and role models. The book, therefore, explores the incidence of suicide in athletes and reviews the risk factors that increase the likelihood of suicide in.

SUICIDE IN PROFESSIONAL AND AMATEUR ATHLETES; CONTENTS; Chapter 1 BASEBALL SUICIDES: CASE STUDIES; Chapter 2 ATHLETE SUICIDES AND VIOLENT DEATHS; Chapter 3 STEROIDS AND SUICIDE; Chapter 4 CONCUSSIONS, TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, AND SUICIDE; Chapter 5 THE SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS OF ATHLETES; Chapter 6 SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND SUICIDE IN ATHLETES; Chapter 7 PSYCHIATRIC PROBLEMS IN ATHLETES; Chapter 8 SUICIDE AMONG LESBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL ATHLETES; Chapter 9 CONTAGION, BULLYING, AND SUICIDE AMONG HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE ATHLETES; Chapter 10 SEXUAL ABUSE AMONG ATHLETES.

Chapter 11 THE EFFECT OF RETIREMENT ON ATHLETESChapter 12 ATHLETES AS SURVIVORS; Chapter 13 PARTICIPATION IN SPORTS ACTIVITIES AND SUICIDE PREVENTION; Chapter 14 BODY MASS INDEX, ATHLETICISM, AND SUICIDE; Chapter 15 SPECTATORS' INVOLVEMENT IN SPORTS AND SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; Chapter 16 FRAMING ATHLETE SUICIDES IN THE MOVIES: THE IMPACTS OF PHYSICAL PROBLEMS AND OCCUPATIONAL AND ECONOMIC STRAIN; Chapter 17 CRICKET SUICIDES; Chapter 18 CONCLUSIONS; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX.

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