Using Sports Psychology Techniques With Student Athletes

Do you treat student athletes? Learn techniques to help your clients, manage nerves, increase performance, and achieve athletically.
About this Event

Professional Training, 3 Category 1 CEUs*

Live, interactive Zoom training

Overview

Student athletes are increasingly experiencing internal and external pressure to perform at elite levels which often results in stress, anxiety, injuries, hitting training plateaus, and burnout. Learn techniques used by therapists to help student athletes increase mental health in the context of the sport. Athletes who adopt these strategies report increased performance, fewer injuries, better outlook, and more time in the “flow” zone of performance. Participants will leave this training with specific interventions to use with clients right away.

Objectives

Participants will strengthen their ability to assess student athletes’ mental performance skills
Participants will be taught evidence-based techniques to improve athletes’ mental performance
Participants will deepen their appreciation of how contextual factors impact athletes’ performance
Participants will be able to better evaluate how personality and family factors effect performance

Presenter

Gavin W Behrens, LCSW-C is the owner and founder of a group psychotherapy practice in Bethesda Maryland. He has many decades of experience delivering clinical services to families and children. In addition to private practice, he has worked in a variety of settings including foster care, emergency room, outpatient mental health, and Employment Assistance Programs. He directed a therapeutic school for emotionally disturbed children and outpatient mental health services for Chestnut Lodge Hospital. Mr. Behrens attended college on an athletic scholarship and coached a high school team. Mr. Behrens uses an integrated approach in his clinical treatment including empirically informed cognitive and behavioral techniques and practices. He has a certificate in psychoanalytic psychotherapy from the Baltimore Washington Institute and has received training in Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, Mentalization Based Treatment, and Transference Focused Psychotherapy.

*Continuing Education Information

Rathbone & Associates is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to sponsor social work continuing education programs and maintains full responsibility for the programs and their content. These trainings qualify for Category I continuing education units. Please contact your state board for verification of reciprocity with other states and professions. In order to receive a certificate, registrants must attend the entire session.

Rathbone & Associates is a sponsor of continuing education credits for psychologists in Maryland under the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Rathbone & Associates maintains responsibility for the program content.