Toolkits
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.