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Licensure Differences of Mental Health Professionals in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Athletic Departments  \nLauren Beasley, Ph.D., LMSW  \nGeorgia State University  \nRobin Hardin, Ph.D.  \nUniversity of Tennessee  \nZachary T. Smith, Ph.D.  \nPenn State Harrisburg  \nJohn Magliocca, Ph.D.  \nSt. John’s Fisher University  \nAbstract: The high rates of depression, anxiety, suicide, and other mental health concerns among collegiate student-athletes have necessitated the need for appropriate mental health services. Members of Division I autonomous conferences ofthe National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) have passed legislation requiring member institutions to provide access to mental healthcare for their student-athletes. The NCAA has also released a best-practices guide for mental health care in college sport that includes licensed psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, and licensed professional counselors. These professionals are all qualified and deemed competent to provide mental health services to student-athletes. However, an examination of the differences between these three licenses is absent from the literature. This essay offers an overview of these differences to clarify the purview of each license, as there is confusion surrounding the different types of professionals that can provide mental health services. A description of the qualifications of these professionals is provided, followed by a discussion of the differences between mental health licensure and certification as a certified mental performance consultant (CMPC) . This will assist administrators, coaches, and student-athletes in making informed decisions about mental health care.  \nKeywords: student-athletes, NCAA, college athletics, holistic care, professional licensure, mental health, mental health literacy  \nAn Examination of the Licensure Differences of Mental Health Professionals in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Athletic Departments  \nThe World Health Organization (WHO) reported that one in five college students worldwide experiences some type of mental health disorder (Auerbach et al., 2016) . This rate is  \nJournal of Higher Education Athletics & Innovation 2022, Vol. 1, No. 9  \ncomparable or even higher in the collegiate student-athlete population in the United States. Wolanin and colleagues (2016) found that one in four student-athletes and nearly one in three of all-female student-athletes suffer from depressive symptoms in a study of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I (DI) student-athletes. Cox and colleagues (2017) also found that 33.2% of student-athletes presented with depressive symptoms, whereas the average prevalence rate was approximately 30% for the general student population (Ibrahim et al., 2013) . Other studies suggested high rates of substance use (Yusko et al., 2008), alcohol use (Taylor et al., 2017), and eating disorders (Greenleaf et al., 2009) in the student-athlete population. There are unique aspects of the collegiate athletic culture that can increase the risk for mental health concerns. These include the negative impact on self-identity when engrossed in athletics (Taylor, 2014), time demands (Kroshus, 2014), injury (Putukian, 2016), focus on the physical body (McLester et al., 2014), the transition out of athletics (Miller & Buttell, 2018; Smith & Hardin, 2018), over-training syndrome (Matos et al., 2011), and traumatic brain injuries (Kontos et al., 2012) .  \nThe growing concern around the high rates of these mental health issues in the studentathlete population (Murschel, 2019) led the NCAA Division I autonomous conferences to pass legislation at its 2019 convention requiring member institutions to provide mental health services and resources for student-athletes (Adelson, 2019) . 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