
Starting from a general literature research of the best practices and entities in the European Union regarding sport, physical exercise and mental health, this tool includes several kinds of practices (therapeutic schemes, campaigns, educational programmes, and studies) that are being carried out in different countries.
search was conducted which covered the whole Europe. A functional approach has been developed towards this goal. Thus, the European Union has been divided in five coherent geographic areas: North, South, West, East and Central.
This tool is addressed not only to professionals (physical therapists, sports professionals, physical activity teachers and monitors, occupational therapists, etc.), but also to all people with mental health problems in order to improve their quality of life and protect their rights, dignity and inclusion through the creation of therapeutic paths able to combine the typical sports training sessions together with psychiatric rehabilitation.
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Due to social differences in Sweden with economical differences and segregated areas Street Games Gothenburg came to be in 2015 funded by the national sports organisation RF-SISU in Sweden to us RF-SISU Västra Götaland Street Games Västra Götaland.
StreetGames Göteborg use power of sport to create positive change in the lives of disadvantaged young people right across Gothenburg and have helped 25 000 Young kids in Gothenburg since the start to make young people and their communities healthier, safer and more successful.
Sport is energetic, inclusive and enjoyable, but StreetGames goal is not only about having fun. StreetGames believes in the power of sport to transform lives and to broaden ambitions in help with the big leadership program with t-shirts in different colors and a system of playful "trying on sports" in different shapes and sizes. We educate the leaders in Street Games. Young and established leaders meet in order to exchange experiences in a learning environment which leads to a stronger feeling of confidence, working ability and leadership skills.
We also work a lot with Young Girls in the segregated areas to be able to take on a leadership roles based on several studies that has been done (will link the studies) |
People with severe mental illness, especially those with a poor job history and somatic comorbidity, experience different psychosocial and physical barriers to employment. The aim of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of an augmented Individual Placement and Support (IPS) program, which consists of IPS and mental and psychomotor training among people with severe mental illness. During the period from May 2010 until December 2017, 176 clients participated in the study. Over 10 week period, people with severe mental illness receive IPS augmented with three group sessions per week of mental and psychomotor training (the I Care program). This program was based on a bio-psycho-social perspective, containing a combination of work-related psychological, educational and physical rehabilitation methods. The group consisted of people with mood, anxiety and adjustment disorders, autism spectrum syndrome, personality and psychotic disorders. Ninety (51.14%) participants had chronic medical diseases as well, mainly musculoskeletal diseases and/or chronic pain. |
• Purpose: to present clinical guidelines for exercise therapy in depressed patients derived from recent meta-analyses.
• Method: four meta-analyses on effects of physical exercise on mental and physical in depression were analysed.
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• Background: The beneficial effects of physical activity (PA) for older adults are well known. However, few older adults reach the health guideline of 150 min per week of moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA). Electronic health (eHealth) interventions are effective in increasing PA levels in older adults in the short term but, rarely, intermediate-term effects after a period without the support of a website or an app have been examined. Furthermore, current theory-based interventions focus mainly on pre - intentional determinants, although post - intentional determinants should also be included to increase the likelihood of successful behavior change.
• Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effect of the theory-based eHealth intervention, MyPlan 2.0, focusing on pre- and post - intentional determinants on both accelerometer-based and self-reported PA levels in older Belgian adults in the short and intermediate term.
• Methods: This study was a randomized controlled trial with three data collection points: baseline (N=72), post (five weeks after baseline; N=65), and follow-up (three months after baseline; N=65). The study took place in Ghent, and older adults (aged ≥65 years) were recruited through a combination of random and convenience sampling. At all the time points, participants were visited by the research team. Self-reported domain-specific PA was assessed using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire, and accelerometers were used to objectively assess PA. Participants in the intervention group got access to the eHealth intervention, MyPlan 2.0, and used it independently for five consecutive weeks after baseline. MyPlan 2.0 was based on the self-regulatory theory and focused on both pre- and post - intentional processes to increase PA. Multilevel mixed- models repeated measures analyses were performed in R (R Foundation for Statistical Computing).
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• Background
Social anxiety (SA) is a frequent comorbid condition in patients with mental illness. However, no data exist regarding SA in physical activity (PA) situations. The aim of the present study was to measure the level of self‐reported SA in PA participation in patients with mental illness compared to healthy controls.
• Methods
Six hundred ninety‐three patients with mental illness and 2,888 controls aged between 18 and 65 years completed the Physical Activity and Sport Anxiety Scale (PASAS). Group and gender differences in PASAS scores were tested by ANOVA and Scheffé's post hoc test.
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Three stakeholders based in Flanders, a health insurance provider (CM), a state agency for forest and nature (Regional public authority for Nature and Forests of Nature & Forests, government of Flanders) and a forest advocate organization (BOS+) partner annually to run a campaign to encourage physical movement in natural environments for 30 minutes per day during 30 days.Since 2017, an assessment of the impact of the campaign on the participants´ subjective health and wellbeing has been conducted for the 30730 campaign. In the autumn of 2018, altogether 1720 participants started the campaign by signing up in the online diary. They were encouraged to report their daily activities through the diary and through the three surveys that were administered throughout the campaign. The impact of the campaign on participants´ subjective health and wellbeing, their connectedness with nature and the level of naturalness of their perceived living and exercising environments, were measured by using a set of validated scales, an objective measure and qualitative questions.
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Within Socialist Provident Women, we have understood this issue. That’s why we’re mobilizing for sport. In the Charleroi Center and Soignies branch, for example, many courses are organized, including for beginners and at very democratic prices to allow everyone to register. For example, there are gentle gym, tai chi, zen gym, swiss ball, yoga and Nordic walking classes. In the future, the branch would also like to offer more family sports projects.
The FPS also decided to focus on well-being in business. “The idea is to provide staff members with periods of relaxation. This is one of the elements (along with training, organization and coaching) that make it possible to achieve this objective of well-being at work” further explains Anaïs Bringard. Staff members are therefore invited to take part in running sessions (once a week at Tivoli La Louvière and at Solidaris La Hestre and Charleroi), bodysculpt (once a week at Tivoli La Louvière) and relaxation sessions for Solidaris La Hestre and Charleroi staff members (once a week, once a week or every two weeks).
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The International Muslim Student Association of Leuven, or IMSAL, has a well-established institution of leading monthly nature walks for free! They specialize in bringing together an array of students and introducing them to Belgium’s countryside. IMSAL hikes started back in October 2016 and have now become a regular event, with at least one monthly trek into nature, guided by a veteran of Belgian trails. |
The AREA + home for adolescents is a psychiatric center offering care for adolescents between 12 and 20 years old, the aim is to respond to any type of crisis and psychological problem: psychological distress, depression, family breakdown, dropping out of school, danger, psychotic manifestations etc.
AREA + is a structure made up of a residential hospital for adolescents, a day hospital (The therapeutic high school), a therapeutic boarding school, a polyclinic and a reception and orientation center .
Its operation is based on a multidisciplinary, therapeutic, social, legal and educational approach, calling on a synergy of actors working in these different fields. AREA + combines therapeutic aid, teaching, sport, artistic workshops, etc.
The AREA + project also benefits from the support of the European federation Action for Teens, whose mission consists in defending a policy of specific care for adolescents in European countries. |
In Belgium and the Netherlands, psychomotor therapy as a kind of physical activity and body-oriented therapy has been well integrated into mental health care since 1965.Psychomotor therapy is defined as a method of treatment that uses body awareness and physical activities as cornerstones of its approach. In Flemish psychiatric hospitals, psychomotor therapy is imbedded in different treatment programs for different diagnosis related patient settings.
Since 1962, in Flanders the domain of PMT was included in the graduate studies (master) of kinesiology, rehabilitation, and physiotherapy. Since 1965, psychomotor therapy has been systematically integrated in the different residential programs for psychiatric patients in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium (Flanders).
Psychomotor Therapy: A Complementary Therapy? In Flanders, psychomotor therapy can be seen as a supplement to biomedical treatment, in accordance with internationally accepted standard models. It is integrated in the dominant health care system. Psychomotor therapy is theoretically well underpinned and taught at the university level. Research in this field is increasing, and there is now clinical and scientific evidence. There are no real side effects, and the rules of safety are transparent.
• Clinical Interventions:
-Psychomotor Therapy for Patients with Schizophrenia. Psychomotor therapy for schizophrenia may consist of (a) a stress reduction program, (b) a movement activation program and (c) a psychosocial therapy program
-Psychomotor Therapy in a Cognitive Behavioural Setting for Patients
with Eating Disorders
-Psychomotor Therapy in a Clinical Psychotherapy Setting for
Patients with Personality Disorders |
• Subjects/ Content
Volume 1.
-physical and sports activity: distinction of concepts, philosophical bases (opposition dualism-monism), definitions, specific objectives, their content, their societal organizations in Belgium, value of the relationship to the body in civilizations and in history, presentation data for Belgium
- impact on health (physical, mental and sexual): on physiological (respiratory, cardio-pulmonary and vascular systems, cerebral system, .. and psychological (on personality factors such as self-esteem, anxiety, depression, education systems, family, socio-relational, studies, ...)
-impact according to the intensity and frequency according to the different populations concerned and the environmental system (child-adolescent-adults-seniors). On specific populations: with a psychological problem, social reintegration, with handicap (motor, sensory and mental,) competition and high level, physical disorders (obesity, diabetes, ..) and transplanted (kidneys, heart, liver ,. .)
- motivational aspects which push people to engage or not in the practice of PA or even to disengage from it.
- theoretical and practical basis allowing health professionals to arrive at:
1) Understand the value of PA as a therapeutic tool in certain pathologies / prevention tool for the occurrence of certain diseases and for improving the quality of life and physical, mental and sexual health.
2) Encourage / help a person to be more active.
- presentation of the psycho-corporal techniques whose aim is the harmonization of the relations between the body and the psyche and which have a certain empirical validation are: psychomotricity, respiration, muscle tone (Jacobson method), Eutonia , Autogenic training by Schultz, Yoga.
Techniques integrating cognitive dimensions and the relationship with the body such as internal dialogue, Autogenic Training by Schultz, imagery.
Volume 2
The techniques already mentioned, or a selection among them, must be the subject of a specific teaching for the students so that they can use them with their future patients.
Being able the use of these techniques is not difficult in itself, but the difficulty lies in the time to devote to acquiring the use of the tool.
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Patients with eating disorders experience have an intense fear of gaining weight and present a negative body experience and a disturbed body perception (weight, circumference and form). Excessive exercise, drive for activity or hyperactivity are considered to be a secondary symptom in the diagnostic of patients with eating disorders and are characterised by a voluntary increase of physical activity, a compulsive urge to move and by the dissociation of fatigue. The goal of this workshop is to present practical guidelines for physiotherapeutic management in eating disorder. This guidelines are based on the research literature and on more than 30 years of clinical and scientific experience in this field at the University Psychiatric Center- KULeuven, campus Kortenberg (Belgium). The cornerstones for a physiotherapy approach in children, adolescents and adults will be proposed. A description of the possible goals/objectives such as reconstructing a realistic self-concept, curbing hyperactivity, learning how to enjoy the body will be discussed. Different therapeutic interventions aimed at improving the body experience in patients with eating disorders through the use of physiotherapy will be introduced. Attention will surely be paid to particular therapeutic techniques such as relaxation training (e.g. mindfulness, yoga, …), breathing exercises, physical activities, sensory awareness and self-perception (mirror exercises, body awareness, …), all of which are used in physiotherapy.
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