Bad Boys or Sick Boys? Mental Well-being and Caring Coaches

Carwyn JonesCardiff School of Sport: UWIC

Cardiff

Gavin Hensonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzN8Hg7yCkE&feature=related

Recently reprimanded and suspended by his club for breach of disciplinary rules.

Alcohol and nightclubs involved.

Returning to rugby after a self imposed 18 month sabbatical to sort “his head out”.

Andy PowellInfamously caught driving a golf cart on the Motorway at 5.00am under the influence of alcohol.

Contract terminated by his latest club Wasps following his involvement in a brawl in a pub.

Danny Cipriani A litany of disruptive behaviour.

Often involving alcohol, nightclubs and celebrity.Stole a bottle of vodka from nightclub.

Mike Phillips

Vices

• recklessness, carelessness, gluttony, intemperance, vanity, pride, arrogance, belligerence, complacent, conceited, foolish, impulsive, petulant, pretentious, selfish, spoiled, stubborn and stupid.

• Context specific?

• Flanagan (1991, p. 332)• …that the revival of character ethics, if it is truly to

enrich more actional approaches and not merely serve as a rhetorical counterextreme, had better not make the mistake of ignoring the vast array of moral personalities, of failing to see that both good character and good action are realized in multiple ways, and of thinking of traits of character as more solid, unequivocal, and decontextualized than they are.

• http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=hpskip#!/pages/Andy-Powell-Appreciation-Society-For-Driving-A-Golf-Buggy-On-The-M4/301791227198

• Tony Adams: “I did not know I was an alcoholic in development, nor what price of such an intense way of life was going to be”

• This dichotomy, according to Martin (2006, p. 6) prevents us from understanding how, Paul Gascoigne’s behaviour for example can be both “irresponsible and sick, how destructive addictions are both wrongdoing and pathology, how medication and discipline might both be appropriate for a hyperactive child...”

• “The DSM (American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) defines mental disorders as patterns of overt behaviour and states involving unacceptable distress, disability, and increased danger. More fully, a mental disorder is any “behaviour or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and that is associated with present distress (e.g., a painful symptom) or disability (i.e., impairment in one or more important areas of functioning) or with significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom.” (Martin 2006, p. 20)

• "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."