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Encouraging greater sport participation

Learning Through Sport

There is substantial evidence of many psychological, physical, and social health benefits of participation in sport across the lifespan, including that participation in sport is associated with improved psychological and social health benefits above other forms of leisure time physical activity for children and adolescents.

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Associations Between Organised Sport Participation and Children’s Mental Health

Learning Through Sport

I am currently working on a few mental health education initiatives arsing from the Big Talks for Little People program for primary schools (see here ). Sport appears to be associated with improved psychosocial health above and beyond improvements attributable to participation in physical activity.

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