Gattis Courtney, Moore Matt
College of Social Work, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States.
Department of Social Work, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, United States.
Front Sports Act Living. 2022 Nov 3;4:1017308. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2022.1017308. eCollection 2022.
Maltreatment in sports is an epidemic and occurs in many relational forms such as physical, sexual, and emotional abuse or neglect. Maltreatment in sports also exists in forms of non-relational abuse and focuses on mezzo and macro forms of maltreatment such as systematic abuse, organizational abuse, and physiological abuse or neglect (e.g., exploitation and athlete trafficking). It is imperative to study the effects of maltreatment in sports as athletes can be the victims (survivors) as well as perpetrators of abuse. Recent research in the field of social work points to the benefits of Trauma-Informed Sports and Short Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) as possible interventions. It is imperative for transferability in the field of maltreatment in sports, that practitioners define each form of abuse in the context of maltreatment and trauma. This commentary aims to discuss the different forms of maltreatment in sports that could affect athletes and provide discussion and insights into the void of research surrounding certain forms of non-relational abuse and the role trauma-informed therapies serve in promoting athlete wellbeing from a social work lens.
体育领域的虐待行为泛滥成灾，且以多种关系形式出现，如身体虐待、性虐待、情感虐待或忽视。体育领域的虐待行为还存在非关系性虐待形式，并侧重于中观和宏观层面的虐待，如系统性虐待、组织性虐待以及生理虐待或忽视（如剥削和运动员贩卖）。研究体育领域虐待行为的影响至关重要，因为运动员可能既是受害者（幸存者），也是施虐者。社会工作领域的最新研究指出，创伤知情体育和短期聚焦式疗法（SFBT）作为可能的干预措施具有益处。对于体育领域虐待行为而言，为了实现可转移性，从业者必须在虐待和创伤的背景下界定每种虐待形式。本评论旨在讨论可能影响运动员的体育领域不同形式的虐待行为，并从社会工作视角对围绕某些非关系性虐待形式的研究空白以及创伤知情疗法在促进运动员福祉方面所起的作用进行讨论并提供见解。
