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EV0589

Monitoring Happiness and Burnout in Young Athletes

MONITORING HAPPINESS AND BURNOUT IN YOUTH ATHLETES

The professionalization of organized youth sports is associated with high dropout and burnout rates, and the sports psychiatrist should be positioned as part of the multilayered support system surrounding the young athlete.

The presentation aims to examine burnout in young athletes within its historical and systemic context and to define the role of sports psychiatrists in this area. The poster is a review based on the literature and a conceptual model, with no original data collection; it includes no sample, measurement scales, or statistical analysis. As background, it notes that Wall Street Journal sports columnist Jason Gay reported in 2023 that high school sports participation had declined for the first time on record and that young people continued to move away from organized sports. It also states that the first school-based sports program, established by New York schools in collaboration with local pediatricians in the early twentieth century, evolved over time into the privatization and professionalization of youth sports and a pay-to-play model. The two key figures reported are that more than 70% of children who begin participating in youth sports drop out by early adolescence and that burnout rates are higher among adolescent girls. The poster presents an ecological model with concentric circles centered on the young athlete: the innermost circle includes parents, peers, coaches, and teachers; the middle circle includes the sports psychiatrist, sports psychologist, nutritionist, primary care physician, physical support team (physical therapist, athletic trainer), and youth sports club administrators; and the outer circle includes state and national sports federations, local and national legislation, sports facility owners, and public perceptions. The clinical implication is that burnout should be addressed not merely as an individual problem affecting the athlete, but as a systemic problem encompassing all these layers. Note: the title on the poster differs from the title provided ("Burnout in Youth Athletes: Role of Sports Psychiatrists" and "Have We Forgotten the Fun?"), and the poster contains no measures or data relating to the monitoring of happiness.

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