The Best Coach In College Sports Might Be a Psychologist

....Although athletes have consistently reported the importance of coaches, family and teammates in their lives, traditional campus counseling and psychological services usually only involve the athletes in therapy sessions. Also, it has been our experience that traditional services rarely address sport culture formally, and they usually require athletes to evidence psychiatric symptoms, upset or dysfunction in some way in order to receive mental health services. We believe these practices deter athletes from pursuing counseling that may have been beneficial due to perceived stigma......   ...more

Bethany`s Notes: In case you missed last week`s article about the research study here is another look at it from the researcher himself. Find all the details right here.