{"id":11731,"date":"2017-05-27T05:31:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T10:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mentalhe180dev.wpenginepowered.com\/news\/mental-health-first-aid-team-player-need\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T08:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:22:07","slug":"mental-health-first-aid-team-player-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/mental-health-first-aid-team-player-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health First Aid is the Team Player You Need"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even before the stress of college begins to set in, one in four students has a history of mental illness and treatment. That means 25 percent of college students have been formally diagnosed or treated for mental health issues \u2013 twice as many as non-college adults.<\/p>\n

On top of the usual college stressors, student athletes have additional pressures affecting their mental health and their coaches may be contributing to its gradual downfall (\u201cAthletes\u2019 Mental Health: A Series On Student Athletes<\/a>,\u201d The Jambar, <\/em>April 19, 2017).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have parents and coaches who will tell students to shake it off,\u201d Emily Wollet, assistant athletic director at Youngstown State University said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s not that they don\u2019t care, but they just don\u2019t understand what it\u2019s like. Until you experience it yourself, or are around somebody close who\u2019s experiencing it, you won\u2019t have the empathy or understanding on how to support it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eighty-five percent of college students feel overwhelmed by the many demands on them, according to the American College Health Association\u2019s National College Health Assessment. Approximately 82 percent of students feel exhausted, 65 percent sad and 58 overly anxious, while close to 10 percent reported that they considered suicide. Unfortunately, it\u2019s not uncommon for people to brush off mental health problems before it\u2019s too late, especially athletes.<\/p>\n

Student athletes often face high levels of stress from attempting to balance their academics and athletics combined with the pressures to excel and win. When coaches don\u2019t have the tools or experience to recognize signs and symptoms of mental health challenges, the struggle of student athletes goes unseen and unheard.<\/p>\n

That is exactly why Mental Health First Aid exists. It is training that teaches people how to engage with the signs and symptoms of mental health challenges and, more specifically, how to empathically listen and respond to these signs. With this information, coaches and teammates alike are provided with a better understanding of how to support one another during taxing situations on and off the playing field or court.<\/p>\n

That is why we are asking you to be the one to make a difference<\/a>. Because anyone, anywhere, can be the difference in someone\u2019s life. Get trained in Mental Health First Aid today.<\/p>\n

Watch New York Giants player, Brandon Marshall, talk about how his wife, Michi Marshall, made the difference<\/a> in his life.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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