ABSTRACT
Athletes select sport and life performance optimization scenarios to be reviewed during performance meetings to ensure programming is pleasurable, relevant, and timely. The National Collegiate Athletic Association recommends that collegiate institutions screen athletes for mental health conditions to facilitate mental health referrals. Athletes are considered a special population with unique mental health intervention and assessment needs. Athletes are asked to indicate why famous professional athletes utilize mental health services, including sport psychologists. Athletes are assigned to practice skills between meetings, and providers encourage participation through supportive text messages and brief telephone calls. Athletes are encouraged to choose the location of programming, including in situ or office setting. Athletes are able to learn job interviewing skills and methods of soliciting job interviews through networking and direct contacts with potential employers. The class presentations are negotiated with instructors who teach courses that are likely to involve a relatively high percentage of athletes.
