Mental Skills Training for Youth Experiencing Multiple Disadvantage

Jennifer Cumming; Mary Quinton; Grace Tidmarsh; Sally Reynard

doi:10.3390/youth4040102

Mental Skills Training for Youth Experiencing Multiple Disadvantage

Jennifer Cumming^*, Mary Quinton, Grace Tidmarsh, Sally Reynard

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Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

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(1) Background: Youths with multiple risks and severe disadvantages experience poorer health and educational outcomes than less disadvantaged peers. To address problems with coping and self-regulation in this group, mental skills training (MST) approaches more commonly used in sport are an emerging intervention approach. (2) Methods and results: this narrative review synthesizes literature to explain the need for MST, how it works, and evidence to support it works by focusing on two well evaluated programs: LifeMatters and My Strengths Training for Life™. (3) Conclusions: To support positive youth development, MST is a strengths-based, flexible, and adaptable approach to help fill the shortage of available evidence-based programs for those youths facing multiple disadvantages. The findings of this review may facilitate policy makers, commissioners, program planners, and researchers in the uptake of MST or similar psychoeducational approaches in future.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1591-1609
Number of pages	19
Journal	Youth
Volume	4
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/youth4040102
Publication status	Published - 14 Nov 2024

Keywords

youth homelessness
positive youth development
self-regulation
mental skills
mental skills training
trauma-informed
trauma-informed care
solution-focused brief therapy
MST4Life
LifeMatters
logic model

UN SDGs

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Mental Skills Training for Life with St Basils
Cumming, J. (Principal Investigator)
ST. BASIL'S CENTRE
1/09/17 → 30/06/24
Project: Research
Monday Trust Fund Evaluation for St Basils
Cumming, J. (Principal Investigator)
ST. BASIL'S CENTRE
1/08/15 → 31/03/18
Project: Research
Mental Skills Training within BOOST 2014-2017
Cumming, J. (Principal Investigator), Burns, V. (Co-Investigator) & Cooley, S. (Co-Investigator)
ST. BASIL'S CENTRE
1/09/14 → 31/03/18
Project: Research

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Monday Trust Fund Evaluation for St Basils

Mental Skills Training within BOOST 2014-2017

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