Geneva College Athletics

Mental Health Services and Hotlines

• Geneva Counseling Center
• Psychology Today - great resource to find a therapist by searching with zip code
• Crisis Text Line (crisistextline.org)- provides free, 24/7, high-quality text-based mental health support and crisis intervention by empowering a community of trained volunteers to support people in their moments of need. 
  • Crisis Text Line - text 'PA' to 741741
• Suicide and Crisis Lifeline - 988
• PAAR: Rape Hotline (24-hour hotline) - 1-866-363-0131

Psychoeducation

General mental health for student athletes

• Includes info sheets about anxiety, depression, body image, suicide awareness, and mental health stigma
  • https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2016/8/4/mental-health-educational-resources.aspx
• “Mental Health in Athletes and the Pressure to Perform”
  • This is a really cohesive article that touches on most common mental health topics for student-athletes (i.e. performance anxiety, balancing schedules, managing stress, pressure, etc.)
• How to ask for help or have a conversation with others about mental health
  • http://www.supportforsport.org/index2.html

Stress and Time Management

• “Balancing Between College, Work, and Personal Life”
  • Offers suggestions on managing stress and balancing your schedule 
• Additional Time management tips
  • https://www.therapistaid.com/worksheets/time-management-tips

Self-care/resilience

• Coping tools
  • Anxiety
  • Grounding
  • http://www.supportforsport.org/index-sport.html
  • Injury related coping
• Self-care
  • “How to take care of your mind and body as a college student-athlete”-Maggie Jordan
  • ‘Athlete Self-Care Workbook’

Anxiety and Performance Anxiety

• Cycle of anxiety
• NCAA Anxiety fact sheet
  • Brief overview of what anxiety is and how student athletes and the athletic department can help.
• After the Game
  •  NCAA program that focuses on dealing with all the emotions that come at the end of a collegiate career
• Peak Performance Sports
  • Offers sports psychology articles that address performance anxiety, pressure, coping with losses, and more 

Social media, books, videos, movies, etc.

Social media accounts:

• The Hidden Opponent
  • Focuses on mental health awareness, education, and support for student-athletes a
  • @thehiddenoppenent (Instagram and TikTok) 

 Books:

• “Sports Theology:  Playing Inside Out” by Greg Smith
• ‘The Everything Stress Management Book: Practical Ways to Relax, Be Healthy, and Maintain Your Sanity (Everything®)’

Videos:

• Athletes and Mental Health: The Hidden Opponent | Victoria Garrick | TEDxUSC
  • A student-athletes portal of their own mental health journey

Podcasts

• The Huddle
• CBT Talks