Physical Activity and Mental Health Workshop

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Physical Activityand Mental HealthWorkshop
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Agenda

• 915 1200 Presentations
• Guy Faulkner
• Val Mayes
• Larry Brawley
• Beth Evans
• 1200 100 Lunch
• 115 400 Break-out groups and large group
  discussion  
• 400 415 future directions

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Todays Purpose

• Examine how physical activity can compliment
  existing mental illness prevention and treatment
  through
• Expert presentations
• Group discussions
• Allow for networking opportunities

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Some Definitions

• Physical Activity any movement that results in
  energy expenditure
• Exercise planned and structured movement for the
  purpose of physical fitness

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• Mental health "a state of well-being in which
  the individual realizes his or her own abilities,
  can cope with the normal stresses of life, can
  work productively and fruitfully, and is able to
  make a contribution to his or her community
• WHO

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Physical Activity can help

• overall mental health (Rohrer, J. E., Pierce,
  J., Blackburn, C., 2005)
• self-esteem (Fox, 2000)
• well-being (Biddle, 2000)
• health related quality of life (Rejeski,
  Brawley, Schumaker, 1996)
• symptoms of depression anxiety (Penedo Dahn,
  2005)
• individuals with schizophrenia (Ohrens et al.,
  2005)

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However

• individuals with mental illness are generally
  less physically active than the general
  population
• the activity programs available are often
  fragmented
• (Richardson, Faulkner, McDevitt, Skrinar,
  Hutchinson, Piette, 2005)

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Barriers to the integration of exercise programs
into mental health services

• mental health clinicians lack of knowledge
  regarding the therapeutic benefits of exercise
• the perceived simplicity of exercise programs
• the incompatibility of exercise programs with
  traditional treatments
• Faulkner and Biddle (2001)

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The Challenge

• for physical activity and mental health
  specialists is to seek a more unified approach
  to treatment