NCAA Student Counseling

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Fifty participants, age range 20-26, who will all be former NCAA D-I baseball, football, or hockey players, from a particular NCAA D-I university will be used in this study. Participants will voluntarily seek treatment at the on-campus counseling center, and be randomly assigned to either the experimental condition (group that will be administered the program) or control condition (group who will not be administered the program). All participants will sign an informed consent document and be debriefed at the conclusion of the study. If the program is determined to be successful, then the control group will have the opportunity to be administered the program.
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If they agree, they will begin participation at the onset of their first session. Participation will begin by the athletes reading and signing the consent form and demographic sheet. Next, the athletes in both conditions will complete the pre- measures, i.e., CDDQ and SWL. After completing the objective measures, athletes in the experimental group will proceed with the career planning program, which will span across 8 to 10 sessions. Participants in the control group will proceed by receiving a generic form of narrative career counseling. After the completion of 8 or 10 sessions, all participants will again be administered the CDDQ and SWL as a post- measure, which will complete their active participation in this study. Following the final session, both groups will be debriefed and the control group will have the option to continue treatment with the inclusion of the career planning program. The CDDQ and SWL will be sent to the participants at intervals of 6, 12, and 18 months to determine how effective the program was on the athlete’ occupational, identity, and life goals, over …show more content…
In addition, the results will indicate that such a program is in demand within the culture of retiring athletes. Ideally, athletes who partake in this program will experience a decline in negative retirement symptoms, i.e., depression, anxiety, identity issues, coping issues, and loss issues. Moreover, participants will also exhibit more confidence in pursuing and implementing career goals success and will sustain that drive and motivation for an extended period of time. Lastly, a significant amount of the research on athletic transition out of sport and career planning modalities has been conducted outside of the United States. Therefore, the results will raise awareness that more time should be allocated to helping athletes transition out of sport.
Despite the promising possibilities of the results, there are several limitations that may be problematic for this evaluation. First, it may take several years to obtain the desired number of participants, since they will not be actively recruited. Secondly, if the desired results are obtained the results will not be generalizable to the entire sporting world. Rather, the results will potentially be applicable to NCAA D-I baseball, football, and hockey players. Although the results will have limitations, this study will be an excellent initial study in the evaluation
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