Our dynamic duo – Occupational Therapists & Coaches promote therapeutic relationships which utilise each other’s scope of practice to apply their knowledge and expertise as one. Providing the best possible experience for the person to engage with physical activity in a way that is relevant and meaningful to them.
The resources below are here to help!
Whether you are an Allied Health Professional, Volunteer, Coach, Carer and or working in the sport, leisure, and health & social care sector – please take a look!
We have a variety of resources we have created and or contributed to since the inception of Sport for Confidence!
Please share and utilise in your own practice.
If you have any further questions and or opportunities regarding new resources, please get in touch info@sportforconfidence.com
The Therapeutic Value of Golf
- a guide for health and social care professionals
In 2023, Sport for Confidence partnered with Golf in Society to deliver a year-long program exploring how golfing interventions, delivered by occupational therapists and physiotherapists, can improve health and strength in those who are frail and living with dementia.
Concluding the year-long program a free-to-access guide was created showcasing how golf can be adapted to deliver life changingly positive occupational outcomes for those involved.
Aimed at health and social care professionals, the guide demonstrates golf’s therapeutic potential, highlighting, when positively and pro-actively delivered, supported, and adapted, golf can deliver hugely positive holistic health and wellbeing outcomes for people who may historically have experienced barriers to participating in physical activity and accessing community spaces.
Published May 2024
The Therapeutic Value of Snooker
A collaboration, lead by Sport for Confidence, aimed at raising awareness of the therapeutic value of snooker.
Sport for Confidence joined forces with Sport England, the Royal Society of Occupational Therapists, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists and the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) to lead on the production of The Therapeutic Value of Snooker - a resource for healthcare professionals.
Published November 2022
The Therapeutic Value of Cycling
Sport For Confidence lead a collective partnership to raise awareness amongst health professionals of the therapeutic value of cycling.
Sport For Confidence joined forces with The Royal College of Occupational Therapists, Moving Occupational Therapists and Sport England, to drive ‘The Therapeutic Value of Cycling - a resource for health professionals’.
The guide has been co-created with students on their clinical placement, drawing on insight and experience from a number of other partners with the aim of encouraging health care professionals to promote and use cycling within their clinical practise.
Published October 2022
The Therapeutic Use of Table Tennis
Following the success of its partnership with Boccia England, Sport for Confidence CIC has partnered with Table Tennis England and the Brighton Table Tennis Club (BTTC) to produce a free to download guide that details the therapeutic potential of table tennis.
Published May 2021
Using Boccia as an Assessment and Intervention Tool
Sport for Confidence partnered with Boccia England to produce an evidence based buide for use in Occupational Therapy practice.
Published 2020
An Introduction to the Therapeutic Use of Boccia
This 90 minute online workshop provides an interactive introduction to the sport of Boccia for Occupational Therapists and Occupation Therapy students.
The webinar was co-delivered by Sport for Confidence and
Boccia England
'Tackling physical inactivity and inequalities: implementing a whole systems approach to transform community provision for disabled people and people with long term health conditions'
A research paper written by Dr Anna Pettican, Robert Southall-Edwards, Gina Yannitell Reinhardt, Valerie Gladwell , Paul Freeman , William Low , Robert Copeland and Louise Mansfield.
Published: February 2024 in BMC Public Health
The Unusual Suspects: Unlocking the Potential of the Wider Public Health Workforce
This report, by the Royal Society of Public Health, calls for greater collective support for the millions of people in the UK’s Wider Public Health Workforce that are positively contributing to the nation’s health.
Published April 2024
