Key result
This review provides an overview of common sport psychology service models in collegiate athletics and details a successful model at a Power Five, Division I athletic program.
Why the study?
Despite NCAA recommendations and growing development of mental health services for college student-athletes, no published literature exists reviewing existing models of collegiate sport psychology programs.
This review provides an overview of mental health service models for collegiate student-athletes, addressing a gap in the literature regarding sport psychology programs.
May inform collegiate athletics service models; extends limited literature but remains hypothesis-generating without outcome data.
In 2016, an NCAA multidisciplinary task force published a consensus document outlining best practices for addressing student-athletes mental wellness. However, despite their recommendations and the growing development of mental health services for college student-athletes, no published literature exists reviewing the existing models of collegiate sport psychology programs. This article serves to address that gap by providing a general overview of common models, followed by an in-depth description of a successful sport psychology model at a Power Five, Division I athletic program. Considerations and recommendations for other institutions, including barriers to student-athlete wellness, availability of university resources, and advantages and disadvantages of the models, will be discussed.
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Albert et al. (2022) conducted a review in Mental health in college student-athletes. Sport psychology service models was evaluated. This review provides an overview of common sport psychology service models in collegiate athletics and details a successful model at a Power Five, Division I athletic program.
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