MCAT ShopTalk January 2020 Mental Health Concerns and Integrated Treatment Model for Student-Athletes (BOC Approved Cat A)
MCAT ShopTalk January 2020
Mental Health Concerns and Integrated Treatment Model for Student-Athletes (BOC Approved Cat A)
Presenters - Jonathan Pastor PsyD, CC-AASP & Casey Maxwell MS, ATC, Princeton University. (Jonathan is Associate Director of Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS) at Princeton University, and Casey is an athletic trainer at Princeton University and currently works with the women's ice hockey, men's rugby and women's lightweight crew teams).
Location: Princeton University, Jadwin Gymnasium - Zanfrini Room
When: Thursday, January 16th, 11am-12:30pm. Lunch provided!
We will be discussing an overview of common mental health concerns among college student-athletes, and how these issues can present in the context of athletic training. The MCAT discussion will focus on how AT’s can respond to mental health concerns when they arise, have conversations with student-athletes who report or demonstrate these concerns, and take further action to help. Presenters will also describe their integrated and multidisciplinary treatment model for mental health issues at Princeton, called TIGERSPAW. Presenters will discuss opportunities and challenges the model has created, including information-sharing and privacy, coordination of care, holistic treatment planning and mind-body issues.
3 core objectives
- Participants will better recognize signs of mental health distress.
- Participants will have increased understanding of basic ways to intervene when they encounter an athlete in distress.
- Participants will learn about a model of multidisciplinary mental health and wellness for college student-athletes
NOTE CHANGE IN LOCATION: Princeton University, Jadwin Gymnasium - Zanfrini Room
To get to the Zanfrini Room at Jadwin, you will park in the East Visitors Parking lot (#21 seen in photo below) just across from the practice fields(Finney/Campbell) and enter Jadwin. Take elevator down to “C” level. The Zanfrini Room is just off of the elevator.
Reserve your spot here by Monday 1/13!
https://www.rwjbh.org/~/events/event/?event=10769
Presenter Bios:
Jonathan Pastor is the Associate Director of Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS) at Princeton University. He is a licensed clinical psychologist, and a certified sport psychologist by the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP). Jonathan completed his internship and post-doctoral training and continued on as a staff psychologist at Columbia University Medical Center from 2002 to 2010, when he moved to Princeton. Jonathan received his Bachelor’s degree from Brown University and earned his doctorate in clinical psychology at Rutgers. As Associate Director at CPS, Jonathan oversees clinical and urgent care services, supervises clinicians. Jonathan co-founded and coordinates the TIGERSPAW (Tiger Student Athlete Performance and Wellness) Team at Princeton, which addresses mental health and performance- related issues among student-athletes. He also coordinates the Alcohol and Other Drug team. Along with helping student-athletes with issues including performance anxiety, adjustment to injury and Jonathan’s other professional interests include treatment of sleep issues including insomnia, bereavement and loss, and interpersonal therapy for anxiety and depression.
Casey Maxwell began as athletic trainer at Princeton in 2013 and currently works with the women's ice hockey, men's rugby and women's lightweight crew teams. She is a member of the TIGERSPAW team, is on the organizing committee of Student-Athlete Wellness Leaders program, and mentors the student-run support group, Wounded Tigers Network (WTN). Prior to coming to Princeton, Maxwell was a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Louisiana State University. While earning a Master of Science in Kinesiology, Maxwell worked with the women's volleyball and national championship cross country and track & field teams. A 2011 graduate of Northeastern University, Maxwell earned magna cum laude honors with a degree in athletic training. She spent time as an intern at Harvard's Department of Sports Medicine and at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Maxwell has earned certifications from the National Athletic Trainers Association, the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners, National Academy of Sports Medicine, American Red Cross, and National Institutes of Health.