Unique Considerations for Female Athletes Presentation

Dr. Pam Weatherbee, Sport Psychiatriast

The health and sport experience of female athletes remain poorly understood and underdeveloped. Women have experienced an array of barriers to sport participation, rooted in biological, psychological, social and cultural factors. Women and girls face sex and gender-based discrimination, violence and other forms of mistreatment with widespread impunity, including physical and psychological violence, coercive control, and economic and online violence. The culture of sport can set the stage for developmental compromises expressed in disordered eating, body image dissatisfaction, increased anxiety/depression, and identity formation. Biological changes that occur during puberty, menses, pregnancy and menopause can impact female participation and performance in sport. It is vital to engage, equip, and empower female athletes to participate in physical activity across the life span and through different reproductive stages.

Join us on February 18 at 12:00pm ET

Key Strategies for Developing Sport Social Work Practicum Education Opportunities

This webinar will discuss opportunities to develop social work practicum education placement for BSW and MSW Students. The session will begin with a brief overview of the history of social work practice in sport and discuss the growth of the subspeciality, including the different areas of sport that social workers practice. Then in line with recent calls to focus on competency-based education for social work practice in sport (i.e., Beasley et al., 2022), we will focus on the work of the ASWIS Practicum Education Committee, whose goal is to advocate for sport-based practicum placement opportunities and provide resources to social work practicum education departments interested in establishing practicum opportunities in sport. Specifically, the panelists, comprised of a practicum education director, liaison, and supervisor, who will cover the different types of sport-specific practicum placements that may be available to social work students, strategies to establish these practicum placements, and detail different types of learning activities in sport-based placements that meet the Council on Social Work Education’s (2022) Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards. Attendees will leave this panel with knowledge on this emerging subspeciality of social work practice and specific strategies to introduce social work students to a career path in social work in sport through practicum education.

Join us on March 4 at 1:00pm ET