HISTORY
ASWIS History
Established in 2015, the Alliance of Social Workers in Sports raises awareness of the ways in which social work practice can partner with and contribute to all levels and all segments of sports. ASWIS promotes a social worker in sports perspective that is grounded in social and economic justice, strength-based approaches, and person-in-environment frameworks. ASWIS encourages the full range of social work practice in sports, from case management and clinical services through advocacy and policy practice for every level and segment of sports.
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ASWIS finalized its incorporation in June 2016 and become an official 501(c)(3) in March of 2017.
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EIN Number: 81-3890412
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We are pleased to announce the Second Cohort !!!!!
Sport Social Work Certificate
Provided through a partnership with Alliance of Social Workers in Sports,
Tulane University School of Social Work, and Tulane Center for Sport
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The certificate is designed for licensed social workers and social work students pursuing their master's degree (certificate is not part of any MSW program).
The certificate requires 3 Saturdays of online synchronous training, reading and assignments between class meetings. A total of 40 continuing education hours will be awarded for successful completion of the program.
Topics covered include:
· Sport Social Work Immersion
· Understanding Diversity and Social Justice in Sports
· Athlete Behavior in the Social Environment
· Professional Practice and Assessment of Athlete Needs
· Treatment of Athlete Needs
· Sport Social Work Policy and Research
18 hours of live instruction
12 hours of course reading
10 hours of activities and assignments
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FOR MORE INFORMATION and an Application , please email:psternbe@tulane.edu or visit https://tssw.tulane.edu/sport-social-work-certificate.
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To apply to the program, please compete the application using the linked document below:
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Program Topics:
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Sport Social Work Immersion: This section will explore the vulnerabilities and resiliencies of individuals who participate in youth, secondary, collegiate and professional sports as well as the hazards they encounter at the various levels of their sporting career. This course explores athletes as a vulnerable, historically oppressed, and marginalized populations, prior to, during, and/or, after their journey as athletes.
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Understanding Diversity and Social Justice in Sports: This section will explore examples of social justice inside/outside sports and issues of fairness and equity in athletics. Potential social justice topics will include Title IX, equity in coach compensation, adequate compensation for college-athletes, concussion, prevention, awareness, intervention and gender, and athletes’ social movements.
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Athlete Behavior in the Social Environment: This section provides content on the reciprocal relationships between athlete behavior and their social environments. It includes empirically based theories and knowledge that focus on the interactions between and within the athlete population, their families, their communities, athletic teams, athletic organizations, institutions overseeing athletics, and a global audience of sports enthusiasts.
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Professional Practice and Assessment Athlete Needs: This section provides an in-depth examination of the helping process within the context of an ecosystems/developmental framework. The course presents an overview of assessment skills needed to determine the functioning of athletes using a psychodynamic developmental model and descriptive diagnosis, DSM 5. Particular attention is given to the dynamics of development and culture, and to the interrelationship among biological, psychological, and social/cultural systems that impact diagnosis within athletic cultural context.
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Treatment of Athlete Needs: This section provides an overview of possible interventions, triage options, and recommended courses of treatment for athletes. In particular, treatment modalities will focus on the examination of psychodynamic and cognitive theory. The course will also explore critical aspects of the therapeutic relationship between an athlete and their practitioner, which promotes growth and change.
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Sport Social Work Policy and Research: ​This section outlines the tasks, skills, and values required for social workers to effectively influence athletic policies at the organizational and legislative level. This course aims to introduce the role of sport social workers as “policy practitioners”. This section also focuses on research methods and designs that may be utilized by sport social work practitioners and advocates for evaluating the safety and well-being of athletes of all ages and abilities. Research should enable sport social workers to develop and apply a scientific stance, to acquiring a working knowledge of selected research methods, and to incorporate these elements into the Sport Social Work practice.
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