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Wednesday Lecture Series: Sports Psychiatry: Strategies for Life Balance & Peak Performance
The primary goal of this presentation is to describe and define the expanding roles that psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health providers are filling with athletes and teams at all competitive levels. It will discuss the main services that behavioral health specialists can provide including mental preparation training, stress control, sleep & energy regulation, substance use prevention, injury recovery, mental disorder treatment, and crisis management. Specific emphasis will be placed on identifying barriers to providing services to high school, collegiate, professional, and Olympic athletes and to basic and complex strategies for peak performance. Additional time will be spent discussing the most common mental health symptoms and disorders in competitive athletes and how the prevalence of these compare to the general population.
Target Audience
This activity is intended for physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, counselors other mental health professionals.
Learning Objectives
1. Define the difference between a sport psychologist and sports psychiatrist and describe the main clinical services that they can provide to athletes and teams across the lifecycle of a full year.
2. Describe a triangle model of peak performance and explain and demonstrate some basic and complex mental skills that can be integrated into the physical and technical aspects of training and competition.
3. Identify the most common mental health symptoms and disorders seen in competitive athletes and describe some effective strategies for their prevention and treatment.
Sheppard Pratt Health System is dedicated to improving quality of life through mental health, special education, and addiction services for children, adolescents, adults and older adults. Our patient-centered treatment approach, combined with our legacy of clinical excellence, sets us apart from other health systems on both a local and national level. We have been ranked among the nation’s top psychiatric hospitals for 24 consecutive years by U. S. News & World Report. Founded in 1853 by philanthropist Moses Sheppard. Sheppard Pratt Health System still abides by its Quaker traditions and values.
Sheppard Pratt regularly hosts renowned speakers from across the country at our headquarters in Towson. We provide educational opportunities on subjects including psychiatric disorders, issues of behavioral health, systems-based change, mental and somatic co-morbidities, psychiatric effects on health and health outcomes, advances in neurobiology, and clinical developments in concepts underlying drug treatment of psychiatric disorders. We are accredited by the Accreditation Council of Continuing Medical Education, the Maryland Nurses’ Association, the Maryland Board of Psychology, the Maryland Board of Social Work, and the National Board of Certified Counselors.
Sheppard Pratt Health System’s Professional Education Program is pleased to provide Wednesdays at Sheppard Pratt free of charge as a public service to the mental health community. Your tax-deductible donations will help maintain the outstanding quality of this service. Please send your contributions to:
Sheppard Pratt Professional Education Program
Wednesdays Lecture Fund
6501 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21204
Professional Education Program: 410.938.4593
Conference Center at Sheppard Pratt: 410.938.3900
Overlooking Sheppard Pratt’s beautifully landscaped grounds, this year-round, state-of-the-art conference facility features a 200-seat auditorium, five climate-controlled classrooms, catering and dining services, videoconferencing services, comprehensive audio-visual services and free parking. To reach the Conference Center enter the campus from Charles Street using Gatehouse Drive. Stay on Gatehouse Drive bearing left when it forks at Pratt Drive. Continue a short distance and Conference Center Drive will be on your left. Follow Conference Center Drive to the facility. Park in front of the building.
Travel
From the Baltimore beltway, take exit 25, Charles Street. Proceed south on Charles Street for approximately 2.5 miles. The entrance to Sheppard Pratt will be on your left, just past the stone gatehouse. You will be on Gatehouse Drive. Take the first left onto Conference Center Drive. Turn left to the parking area directly in front of the Conference Center.
There is no commercial support for this activity.
About this speaker:
David R. McDuff, M.D. is the long-time sports psychiatrist and mental preparation trainer for the Baltimore Orioles (1996-present) and Baltimore Ravens (1996-2013) and more recently the Performance Medicine Physician for the Indianapolis Colts (2015-2018). He is also the author of the 2012 book “Sports Psychiatry: Strategies for Life Balance & Peak Performance”. In addition, he is a member of the International Olympic Committee’s Consensus Panel and work group on Mental Health in Elite Athletes. The consensus panel just published a landmark summary of the research on mental health problems and solutions in elite athletes in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/53/11/667).
In addition to his work at the professional level, Dr. McDuff has worked extensively with Olympic, Professional, Division I, II, & III University/College, elite club and high school athletes and teams. At the Olympic/Professional Level he has worked with golf, tennis, football, baseball, soccer, rugby, windsurfing, and pentathlon. At the college level he has worked at the Universities of Maryland at College Park and Baltimore County, Johns Hopkins, Loyola, Towson, Stevenson, McDaniel, & Coppin. For the past three years he has also been a mental preparation consultant to the Teelin Irish Step Dancing School in Columbia and has worked with many of its dancers attending national & world competitions.
From his office practice in Ellicott City, Maryland he works with track, cross country, hockey, soccer and lacrosse teams and sees athletes from all sports but especially distance running, golf, tennis, soccer, baseball, basketball, football, lacrosse, rugby, figure skating, swimming, gymnastics, and ice hockey.
He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland at Baltimore School of Medicine and is board certified in General & Addiction Psychiatry. He is the founding Director, of the Department’s Division of Alcohol & Drug Abuse and its Addiction Psychiatry and Medicine Fellowship Programs as well as its Sports Psychiatry Program.
Visit www.mdsports.net for more information.
Disclosure Statements:
Sheppard Pratt holds the standard that its continuing medical education programs should be free of commercial bias and conflict of interest. In accord with Sheppard Pratt's Disclosure Policy, as well as standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Medical Association (AMA), all planners, reviewers, speakers and persons in control of content have been asked to disclose any relationship he /she has with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 12 months. All planners, reviewers and speakers have also been asked to disclose any payments accepted for this lecture from any entity besides Sheppard Pratt Health System, and if there will be discussion of any products, services, or off-label uses of product(s) during this presentation.
David R. McDuff, M.D. reports having no financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 12 months. He will not discuss any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, or off-label uses in this presentation.
Event Planners/Reviewers Disclosures: The following event planners and/or reviewers are reported as having no financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 12 months: Todd Peters, M.D., Briana Riemer, M.D., Ben Borja, M.D., Sunil Khushalani, M.D., Faith Dickerson, Ph.D., Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Laura Web, RN-BC, MSN, Rick Wallace, RN, MSN, MBA, Stacey Garnett, RN, MSN, Paul Daugherty, RN, MBA, Heather Billings, RN, and Jennifer Tornabene.
Physician Statement: Sheppard Pratt Health System is accredited by The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Sheppard Pratt takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity. Sheppard Pratt Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurse Statement: Sheppard Pratt Health System is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by Maryland Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Sheppard Pratt takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity. This activity is approved for 1.0 contact hours for nurses.
Psychologist: Statement Sheppard Pratt Health System is authorized by the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists as a sponsor of continuing education. Sheppard Pratt takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity. Sheppard Pratt Health System designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 CEU hours for Psychologists.
Social Worker Statement: Sheppard Pratt Health System is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners of Maryland to offer continuing education for Social Workers. Sheppard Pratt takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity. This activity is approved for 1.0 CEU contact hours in Category 1 credits for Social Workers.
Counselor Statement: Sheppard Pratt Health System has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5098. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Sheppard Pratt Health System is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. This activity is available for 1.0 NBCC clock hours.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 1.00 Psychologists
- 1.00 Participation
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