Psychosocial Aspects of Youth Disability Sport

Psychosocial Aspects of Youth Disability Sport

Teaching About Psychosocial Aspects of Disability

This article presents some psychosocial aspects of disability linked to the person–environment relation that teachers should share in the psychology classroom. Disability is an often-overlooked form of diversity, one that teachers should discuss alongside race, gender, sexual orientation, social class/socioeconomic status (SES), religiosity, and aging. The experience of disability and disabilit...

Sport and Disability

The Paralympic Games held in October 2000 provided an illustration of the quality and excitement in elite-level disability sport, and the significant advances in its development. In a short but rich history, disability sport has undergone substantial changes in its organisation, funding and public and political profile. However, there appears to be a paucity of literature that traces and evalua...

Psychosocial rehabilitation of disability

Introduction: Disability may be a consequence of deformations or developmental failures or the result of functional damages or traumatic effects of the posture or motion systems. There are also "social factors" that contribute to its definition, as the everyday life of the disabled is getting worst due mainly to the existing situation. The integration of these persons into the society should be...

Friendship Quality in Youth Disability Sport: Perceptions of a Best Friend.

The purpose of the current investigation was to examine friendship quality with a best friend in youth disability sport with an international sample of moderately experienced athletes with disabilities ages 9 to 18 years. Participants were 85 males and 65 females from four countries who competed in track and field and swimming. Data were collected with the Sport Friendship Quality Scale (Weiss ...