The State of Youth Sports: Managing Load, Recovery, Specialization, and Burnout

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  Video
Duration:
1 hour
Presented by:
UCLA Child & Youth Behavioral Health Center of Excellence
Developed by:
Joshua T. Goldman, MD, MBA
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Relevant categories:
Behavioral Health School Mental Health Trauma Informed Interventions
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Overview

This training provides research-based guidelines for school personnel, coaches, and caregivers who work with student-athletes. Participants will learn best practices for student-athlete recovery, preventing burnout, sustaining wellbeing, and staying motivated and in love with their sport. Dr. Goldman also reviews the best practical ways to communicate with parents about how to support the health and wellbeing of their student-athlete.

  Keywords: burnout, mental health, physical activity, sleep, stress, youth
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Learning objectives

  • Define "sports specialization" and understand the effects specialization has on youth athletes (patient care)
  • Understand the relationship between training load and injury in youth athletes (medical knowledge)
  • Describe the relationship between sleep, injury, and youth athletes (medical knowledge)
  • Know the guidelines for training load in youth athletes (system-based practice)
  • Provide clear recommendations for sleep quantity and strategies for improved sleep quality for youth athletes (patient care)
  • Recommend sleep and training load management tools to help athletes and coaches implement sleep/training load guidelines (communication skills)

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