Assessing Athletes’ Risk for Developing the Female Athlete Triad at Two Mississippi Universities

Despite the health benefits associated with regular exercise, some female athletes experience menstrual dysfunction and low bone mineral density associated with low energy availability as a result of a high volume of exercise and inadequate caloric intake; these three components characterize the female athlete triad (FAT). Prior research explored the severity of the FAT, pre-season screenings, and nutrition intervention methods; however, current research regarding the relationship between the risk for developing the FAT and access to nutrition resources is lacking. The purpose of this study was to assess the risk of female athletes at two Mississippi universities for developing the FAT and determine if there is a correlation between risk for developing the FAT and access to nutrition resources such as a dietitian or peer education programs. Participants were recruited through an email sent to female athletes on eight teams at each university. An online survey incorporating the LEAF-Q and BSQ-16B regarding the athlete’s risk for developing the FAT and body satisfaction, respectively, was used to collect data. Participants were also asked about prior nutrition education history, knowledge of the FAT, and demographic questions. Results of this study show a significant difference (p = .007) in mean risk for FAT at The University of Mississippi (M = 8.12) as compared to The University of Southern Mississippi (M = 8.77). Participants in this study classified as at risk for the FAT (n = 12) were significantly more likely (χ 2 = 4.930, df = 1, p = .026) to have previous nutrition education by a registered dietitian. No significant differences were found between BSQ and LEAF-Q scores or LEAF-Q scores relationship with knowledge of the FAT and sport. Furthermore, appropriate nutrition resources for female athletes and athletes in general can provide v necessary information about adequate nutrition for performance and basic healthy body functions

Holding safely : guidance for residential child care practitioners and managers about physically restraining children and young people

Residential child care is intensive and at times very diffificult work. Staff in residential childcare, therefore, need training, advice, supervision and support in undertaking this demanding work, since they are often doing the hardest of social care jobs. This good practice guidance has been commissioned to assist practitioners in working out policies and practices for restraining children and young people where no other appropriate options are available

Strengthening Student Outcome Focused School Counseling Research

Presented at the School Counselor Research Summit, Laura Owen and Jeff Warren discuss the most relevant and needed research focuses in the field of school counseling. They provide introductions to funding opportunities and the DELPHI study in an effort to guide where school counseling research should be headed

Zombies in the Library Stacks

This chapter examines the stacks as a zombie category that retains the power to shape understanding despite being outmoded. We analyze three ways of thinking about the stacks that sustain digital humanities: first, the physical library stacks that are part of the information architecture that arranges scholarship; second, the technology stack of globalized computing that distributes scholarship; and finally, the social stack of human relationships that make everything possible. Each stack reveals something different about the digital humanities and the patterns of labor embedded within it. Drawing on the sociological lessons of the zombie category, we aim to disaggregate the stacks as discursive assemblages, thereby exposing the mechanisms through which infrastructure effaces its own social labor while also rendering social labor a visible component of infrastructure