Mental Well-Being for Athletes

There are lots of things to stress about in college, and everyone experiences challenges to their mental well-being during their time as a student. Sports can provide a valuable outlet for college students, but they also produce unique forms of stress. This course defines mental well-being, identifies risk and protective factors of being an athlete, discusses the challenges of mental well-being, lists ways to respond to concerns about someone’s mental well-being, reviews resources that are available to students and their teammates, and identifies how to access those resources.

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Course Details

Learning Objectives

Full Course

This course is for all collegiate athletes.

Duration: 28 minutes

Language: EN

Jennifer Jacobsen

Author

Jen Jacobsen, MA MPH serves as the Executive Director of Health and Wellness at Macalester College; previously, she was in the role of Director of Health Promotion and Sexual Respect. Prior to this, she was the Director of Wellness & Prevention and deputy Title IX coordinator at Grinnell College for 11 years and also spent 18 years coaching Division III men’s and women’s track & field and cross country. Jen has participated in the NCAA Sexual Assault Task Force, the NCAA Step UP! advisory board, the ACHA campus safety coalition, and currently serves on the Division III Alcohol and Other Drug advisory group, NASPA’s Culture of Respect, and the ACHA's Title IX committee. Jen’s primary areas of research and practice include active bystanderism, the role of alcohol in both sex and sexual assault, mental health promotion, the intersection of student affairs and athletics, and leveraging a public health approach to our work on college campuses. Student-athletes are her favorite collaborators.

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