Mental Health and Sports w/ Dr. Robin Scholefield

Dr. Robin Scholefield has provided counseling to individual student athletes, groups, teams, as well as conjoint sessions for student athletes and coaches/teammates for the past 24 years at the University of Southern California. She joins Next Steps Forward program host Chris Meek to speak about her myriad roles, including Director of Culture, Wellbeing & Sport Psychology for USC Athletics; Associate Director, Counseling & Mental Health; Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the KECK School of Medicine, and oversees the Clinical Sport Psychology Program and Services for USC’s Athletic Department. To put it simply, Dr. Scholefield is a proven leader in collegiate athletics and is at the forefront of ensuring that athletes have access to an abundance of mental health resources. Throughout the hour, Dr. Scholefield will discuss how athletes perform better when their identities are built on a foundation of purpose and values rather than performance and how athletes who lack good character and the ability to forge good relationships with teammates, coaches and others are unlikely or unable to ever reach their full potential. She will also share more about the synergy between good character and winning national sports championships. No matter what level of athletics you participate in or more importantly, whether you are even an athlete at all, Dr. Scholefield will speak to mental health, goal setting, character and teamwork in a way that is applicable to many facets of life, both in and outside of athletics.