myPlaybook
What is myPlaybook?
An evidence-based suite of wellness programming, myPlaybook promotes the health and well-being of student-athletes. Specific strategies include social norms, behavioral expectancies, behavioral intentions, as well as bystander, decision making, stress management, goal setting, and harm prevention skills.
Funding for the development and evaluation of myPlaybook was provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
myPlaybook includes:
- 1) Interactive web-based instructional design
- 2) Engaging content and immediate personalized feedback
- 3) User friendly administrative tools and technical assistance to facilitate quality program delivery
- 4) Integrated web-based data collection tools to assess program impact
myPlaybook Alcohol and Other Drugs Education (AOD):
This easy-to-use module, which explains the effects of various substances and shows the impact on athletic performance, training, and recovery from injury, meets NCAA minimum guidelines for drug education. The strategies presented are designed to increase drug-related knowledge and protective behavioral intentions, while correcting perceptions that “everybody is doing it” regarding the prevalence and acceptability of alcohol and other drug use among student-athletes. Standardized education on the NCAA banned substances and drug testing procedures help to focus on normative perceptions, behavioral expectancies, and harm prevention.
myPlaybook Core Sexual Violence Prevention:
Includes Sexual Violence Prevention education related to key sexual assault concepts that are backed by evidence-based strategies to correct misperceptions regarding the prevalence and acceptability of sexual assault on campus among student-athletes. Specific content is included as it relates to the rights of student-athletes and the responsibilities of their university related to sexual assault. The module includes intellectual skill building activities aimed at increasing student-athlete efficacy to be safe active bystanders. There is also a focus on normative perceptions, behavioral expectancies, and harm prevention. Each of the myPlaybook Sexual Violence Prevention series, including Core, Consent and Upstander Strateiges, fulfill the sexual violence educational requirement for NCAA student-athletes and includes the required reporting mechanisms to attest to the fulfillment of this policy
The myPlaybook Sexual Violence Prevention: Consent
myPlaybook Sexual Violence Prevention: Consent takes a deeper dive into the topic of consent, helping students to identify the boundaries of consent and non-consent and to understand the variety of ways that different people communicate. The module also explores reasons for misunderstandings about consent and how to avoid them. Consent’s Foundation section helps students recognize components of a healthy vs. an unhealthy relationship and provides a review of important concepts that meets the requirements for the campus save act, including: definitions, out-of-bounds behavior and warning signs, campus responsibilities, and basic bystander intervention tactics.
Consent and Upstander are designed for upper-class student-athletes and can be customized with campus colors, logos and resources.
myPlaybook Sexual Violence Prevention: Upstander Strategies
myPlaybook Sexual Violence Prevention: Upstander Strategies helps student-athletes to recognize that everyone has a role in contributing to a safe and positive campus culture. The module also builds skills to evaluate when situations warrant intervention and how to do so safely and provides practice decision-making for intervention tactics in various situations. Upstander Strategies also includes a Foundation section as with the Consent module.
Consent and Upstander are designed for upper-class student-athletes and can be customized with campus colors, logos and resources.
myPlaybook Stress Management:
This module primarily focuses on knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about stress and coping as well as intentions for healthy decision making. Interactive programming helps student-athletes identify controllable and uncontrollable stressors in their lives, while evidence-based instructional design encourages student-athletes to consider effective coping strategies. Also included are activities that encourage student-athletes to increase their intention to manage stress effectively. Additional well-being courses are available, allowing athletic departments to reinforce to the learnings and to provide specific content related to alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, performance enhancing drugs and dietary supplements, and prescription/over-the-counter drugs.
myPlaybook Booster Lessons:
myPlaybook also includes brief booster lessons, allowing athletic departments to reinforce learnings and to provide specific content related to alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, performance enhancing drugs and dietary supplements, and prescription/over-the-counter drugs.
