Roberts Catherine E, Oseni Dolapo A, Bohle-Frankel Bettina, Reardon Claudia L
Counseling and Psychological Services, Northwestern University, 633 Emerson Street, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA.
Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2025 May;27(5):326-336. doi: 10.1007/s11920-025-01598-5. Epub 2025 Apr 3.
Over 500,000 college students compete in the three divisions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) each year. The rates of most mental health issues among collegiate student-athletes approximate the rates among non-athlete college students. In recent years, greater attention has been given to recognizing and treating the mental health concerns of student-athletes. This paper examines some of the specific mental health considerations that may arise when working with student-athletes.
Using a biopsychosocial-structural framework, we were able to identify several broad categories of factors that influence the mental health of student-athletes. Within those categories we identified specific diagnoses (such as physical injury), life events (such as early retirement from sport), ways of thinking (including stigma against mental health treatment), and external influences (such as racism and sexism) that impact the mental health of student-athletes. Mental health concerns among college students are common. When working with student-athletes, there are biopsychosocial-structural factors that affect the mental health of student-athletes in unique ways compared to their non-athlete college student counterparts.
每年有超过50万名大学生参加美国全国大学生体育协会（NCAA）的三个组别比赛。大学生运动员中大多数心理健康问题的发生率与非运动员大学生相近。近年来，人们越来越重视认识和治疗学生运动员的心理健康问题。本文探讨了在与学生运动员合作时可能出现的一些具体心理健康问题。
使用生物心理社会结构框架，我们能够确定影响学生运动员心理健康的几大类因素。在这些类别中，我们确定了具体诊断（如身体损伤）、生活事件（如提前结束运动生涯）、思维方式（包括对心理健康治疗的污名化）以及外部影响（如种族主义和性别歧视），这些都会影响学生运动员的心理健康。大学生的心理健康问题很常见。与非运动员大学生相比，在与学生运动员合作时，存在一些生物心理社会结构因素以独特方式影响他们的心理健康。
