Micro-Seminar: The Transformative Power of Sports and Social Work PART TWO

Micro-Seminars have two parts. Attendance to both parts is required. Registering for the PART ONE session will automatically enroll you in the PART TWO session on Friday.

Part 1: Thursday, August 22, 2024 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm (PST)
Part 2: Friday, August 23, 2024 from 10:00 – 11:30 am (PST)

This micro- seminar will provide an exploration of the relationship and intersection of social work, mental health, wellness, and athletes and sport across the lifespan.

Learning outcomes will consist of: understand the relationship between social work and athletes; analyze case studies that examine how social workers can provide useful interventions for athletes, especially scholastic athletes; apply core social work values to real life examples of mental health conditions of athletes.

Day I: Overview of the transformative power of sports and social work newly created syllabus. Lecture and group discussion of meaningful topics.

Day II: Deep dive into actual case studies through the use of vignettes and videos and apply social work tenets to understand conditions of athletes across the lifespan.

Target Audience: Students interested in how mental health, wellbeing, and the profession of social work can help athletes thrive socially and emotional in all environments.

Lead By: Professor Steve Hydon

Stephen Hydon is a teaching professor of practicum education and serves as the director of the School and Educational Settings specialization program. His interests are in secondary traumatic stress and social work practice in schools. Dr. Hydon lead the co-development of an on-line educator curriculum on secondary traumatic stress (statprogram.org), which was funded by SAMHSA. He has been a consultant for the U.S. Department of Education and has trained globally on secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, educator resilience and the evidenced based intervention, Psychological First Aid: Listen, Protect, Connect, Model, and Teach. He is a member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) and the Trauma and Services Adaptation Center for Resiliency, Hope and Wellness in Schools, where he serves as the liaison to the NCTSN’s Terrorism and Disaster Network. Recently, Hydon co-wrote the new California Statewide Standards for School Social Work which will now be used for all California MSW Programs offering the credential in school social work. Dr. Hydon was recently appointed President of the American Council on School Social Work, a national association dedicated solely to the profession of school social work. Lastly, among several courses he has taught in practicum education, Hydon serves as lead of a newly developed course on Holistic Intervention in Educational Settings and The Transformative Power of Sports and Social Work.

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