Sports Therapy Research Paper

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Sports teaches adolescents a lot of life skills for the success of the future. Not only that, but also, sports can provide a positive gateway for a juvenile who is struggling to abide by societal rules. Football is the ultimate team sport, which teaches an individual about life, and the pursuit of happiness. For example, football can help build a child’s self-confidence, and provide motivation and support. The wonderful sport of football aids youth gain a level, of social, and emotional skills, not only that but also, instills skills such as teamwork, dedication, and a strong work-ethic within the individual. Individuals who struggle with behavioral difficulties will be able to grow at high levels by incorporating sports thought ant therapy …show more content…

With that being said, there is a high level of need for therapeutic rehabilitation for young adolescents who struggle with many different risk factors that cause their behaviors prompt them in a negative manner. Smyth emphasizes the importance of rehabilitating youth through sports and thought, through football. This type of therapy is innovative and unique which in result, puts this therapy in a category of its own for its non-traditional route. Implementing sports with reasoning works well especially with adolescents by combining football and psychodynamic thinking with theory to provide positive motivation and encouragement reflection to promote change in regards, to the emotional and behavioral thinking process at the presented time. Therefore, football can be able to enhance participants to think about their behavioral and emotional characteristics, and the reasoning behind those …show more content…

Football is a popular sport amongst young people, which can provide an escape away from reality, and give the adolescents a goal to strive for and or admire for the moment. Smyth has been working with youth for over 30 years and is highly aware of how football players are role models to the youth (Smith, 2014). This leading Smyth to believe, that football can enable the youth to consider readjusting their behavior. By observing the behaviors of the football players and the adolescents Smyth concluded that young people need a space where they can grow and learn and by providing football as an avenue can decrease the emotional and behavioral difficulties. Football helps provide nurture and security and aiming to provide hope. Smyth stating, the hope was to allow the opportunity for the ‘enactment of wishes in preparation to growing up and also the mastery of traumatic experiences’ (Freud,

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