Toolkits

CICMH Created Content for Athletic Department Leadership

January 2, 2022

At The Limit: Player Workload in Elite Professional Men's Football

January 1, 2022

This report provides players’ perspectives of their workload from club and country duties. The report builds on previous FIFPRO medical reports and player surveys. Additional scientific findings concerning the exposure of players to excessive workload and insufficient rest is also taken into account.

USports Mental Health Best Practices (2019)

December 31, 2021

The purpose of this position statement is to provide Canadian university and college athletics and sport medicine departments with recommendations and guidelines for supporting and promoting student athlete mental health.

The Relationship Between Campus Recreation Facility Use and Retention for First-Time Undergraduate Students (2020)

Sera Janson Zegre West Virginia University, Rodney P. Hughes West Virginia University, Andrew M. Darling West Virginia University, Craig R. Decker University of Alabama, Birmingham

December 31, 2021

his study examines the relationship between campus recreation facility access and first year retention of full-time, first-time undergraduate students at a public university for 2014-15 through 2016-17. Results show a positive and significant relationship between recreation facility use and retention.

NCAA Best Practices: Clinical Licensure & Procedures to Identify Students in Need of Referral

December 31, 2021

The NCAA has outlined a number of policies & procedures to help institutions with their student athlete mental health strategy

Mental Health in Elite Athletes: Increased Awareness Requires an Early Intervention Framework to Respond to Athlete Needs (2019)

Rosemary Purcell, Kate Gwyther and Simon M. Rice

December 31, 2021

Early detection of, and intervention for, mental health symptoms is essential in the elite sporting context. Such approaches help build cultures that acknowledge that an athlete’s mental health needs are as important as their physical health needs, and that both are likely to contribute to optimizing the athlete’s overall wellbeing in conjunction with performance excellence.

NCAA Best Practices: Managing Student Athlete Mental Health Issues

Developed by: Ron A. Thompson, PhD, FAED Roberta Trattner Sherman, PhD, FAED Bloomington Center for Counseling and Human Development Bloomington, Indiana

December 31, 2021

This handbook’s primary purpose is to provide information that you can use to effectively and quickly identify student-athletes who are at risk or are experiencing emotional symptoms.

Consensus Statement on Improving the Mental Health of High Performance Athletes (2019)

Kristoffer Henriksen, Robert Schinke, Karin Moesch, Sean McCann, William D. Parham, Carsten Hvid Larsen & Peter Terry

December 31, 2021

This consensus statement is the product of an international Think Tank on the initiative of the International Society of Sport Psychology. The purpose of the Think Tank was to unify major sport psychology organizations in a discussion of the current status and future challenges of applied and research aspects of athlete mental health.

Articles on Student Athlete Mental Health

November 19, 2021

Toolkits & Reports on Elite Athlete Mental Health

November 19, 2021