Stefka Djobova

• PhD Sport (specialization Adapted Physical Activity)
• Professor (Associate) at National Sports Academy Vassil Levski

#SMS – Strong Mind for Success Handbook is an essential resource designed to support the mental health of young football players. This comprehensive guide delves into the significance of mental well-being in sports and offers valuable insights, practical exercises, and tools for athletes, parents, and coaches alike.

#SMS – Strong Mind for Success Handbook is an essential resource designed to support the mental health of young football players. This comprehensive guide delves into the significance of mental well-being in sports and offers valuable insights, practical exercises, and tools for athletes, parents, and coaches alike.

#SMS – Strong Mind for Success Handbook is an essential resource designed to support the mental health of young football players. This comprehensive guide delves into the significance of mental well-being in sports and offers valuable insights, practical exercises, and tools for athletes, parents, and coaches alike.

#SMS – Strong Mind for Success Handbook is an essential resource designed to support the mental health of young football players. This comprehensive guide delves into the significance of mental well-being in sports and offers valuable insights, practical exercises, and tools for athletes, parents, and coaches alike.

Putnam's definition of Social Capital incorporates trust, cooperation, norms of civic engagement, and supportive networks. This study aims to explore the extent of the contribution of safety and security of Special Olympics World sports events in promoting a culture of trust, responsibility, and collective well-being relating to social capital. Thr...

People with intellectual disabilities and/or mental health challenges are still subjected to wide discrimination and the impossibility of proper inclusion in society. Sports is one of the most powerful tools that can support the inclusion process, and in a gentle way present an opportunity for this population to feel accepted and part of a group. S...

Hydrophobia is a complex psychological condition characterized by an irrational fear of water. This condition encompasses a wide range of specific phobias, such as a fear of swimming pools, oceans, lakes, or even water splashing on the face. The research focuses on the fundamental dimensions of Hydrophobia, including its types, causes, consequences...

Special Olympics is the world’s largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. It was established to provide year-round sports training and competition opportunities in a variety of Olympic-type sports. Nowadays, it is a global movement of devoted people gathered to create a new world of inclusion where every si...

Since the 1960s, the Council of Europe has developed recommendations and resolutions ensuring full participation of persons with disabilities into social and sport life. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are the elements that shape sports in the last decade. The right of people with disabilities to participate in recreational or sporting activities...

The BOOST handbook ultimately serve as a practical tool for any youth organisation, youth worker and educational expert who is engaged with youth empowerment in both Europe and the world at large. It also channel vital information to multiple business organisations looking to develop transversal skills within potential employees across all sectors....

There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the sport sector worldwide as well as sports calendar. Sports events have been cancelled or rescheduled like Summer Olympic and Paralympic games. The same had happened with the Special Olympics (SO) events. The pandemic constitutes a global challenge to the sport movements in t...

For twenty years, Bulgaria is seeing dynamic changes in normative foundation related to the education of children with disabilities and their inclusion in physical education and sport. With a heritage of separation and exclusion, we now see positive trends towards the inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of social life. There are m...

Background: Women's health has received renewed attention in the last few years including health rehabilitation options for women affected by breast cancer. Dancing has often been regarded as one attractive option for supporting women's well-being and health, but research with women recovering from breast cancer is still in its infancy. Dancing wit...

The inclusive basketball program of the National Sports Academy is a compilation of adapted and unified basketball where persons with intellectual and physical disabilities together with students and volunteers are training and competing together. PURPOSE of this study is to explore the extent of contribution of our program for the building of soci...

The aim of this pilot study is to research the relation between subjective and objective methods of measuring physical activity. Methods: Data have been collected by self-administrated International Physical Activity Questionnaire Short Form and measured through accelerometer Axivity AX3. Initially 124 students randomly selected participated-32 fem...

Good Governance in Sport Research Report consists of different stages of analysis of the public face of the sport organizations, in particular their public websites – the easiest way for the citizens to find out what are their activities. The report is based on a survey with concrete information that interested sport stakeholders has been able to p...

Research data estimate that by the end of 2040 the severely impaired adults will be 6.5% of the total population in Europe, or 24.5 million people. Today 7.5% of the total European population is 75 years old and more. In 30 years this percentage will rise to 14.4%. Ageing is a process that often affects and restricts the people who are growing old,...

Part one: From residences for mental health to social inclusion and rehabilitation trough integrated sport - Therapeutic Communities: short history, context of action, methodology, users in the Italian territory - Problem description: the social inclusion of the disabled psychic person - Reference theories: models and methodologies used for psychi...

SPeeCh: SPORT_PSYCHIATRY_COMMUNITY Publication “Methodologies and techniques for the management of sports activities that favour the social inclusion of people with psychiatric disabilities who live in residential therapeutic communities”.

Пауърлифтинга е широко разпространен по света. Въпреки, че няма олимпийски статут, в Спешъл Олимпикс е един от официалните спортове. Следвайки дългогодишната си политиката насочена към присъединяване на всички хора с интелектуални увреждания към занимания с физическа активност и повишаване на информираността на хората без увреждания относно тях, Сп...

This manual contains information about sports activities, which the working people can do. Examples how to decrease the level of sickness and healthy problems. The different options of sports activities, which are implemented in the European countries.

Experts in Adapted Physical Activity (APA) for elderly persons from 66 higher education institutions of 29 European countries worked during 3 years together (2004–2007) in producing education materials to promote an active lifestyle, the content of an APA programme for the elderly at master and bachelor level, a motivational DVD (Never too old to b...

A video race analysis was conducted on 100-m freestyle performances of 72 male and 62 female finalists at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games. Races were won or lost in the second half of each 50-m race lap and differences in speed between swimmers were more related to stroke length than stroke rate. Within-race speed changes were more related to chan...