Symposium Session: Get Psyched: Using the Power Combo of Sports Psychology and Sports Nutrition

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the perfect time to demonstrate the collaborative and interdisciplinary opportunities in sports psychology and sports nutrition.  

Join dietitian Dana Angelo White and psychologist Dr. Devin Markle, as they discuss how members of the health care team can work together to optimize performance for athletes of all levels by practicing good nutrition and good mental health. Dana and Dr. Markle will explain the complexities of an athlete’s unique mind-body relationship and identify and explore key components that will aid clinicians in optimizing their client’s performance. Leave this session with knowing how to implement a collaborative model that puts the focus on a wholistic approach to wellness that includes fueling, sleep, stress management, and substance safety.  

This is not a webinar or course for purchase - this is a module for credit claiming for our 2025 Spring Symposium attendees and cannot be purchased or taken by non-attendees. These sessions are exclusive to our Symposium; however, the topics may be revisited in the future in the form of a webinar or self-study course.

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education activity, health care professionals will be better able to:

  1. Describe the key components of maintaining awareness relative to mental health and sports nutrition. 
  2. Implement the tenets of sports psychology into daily sports nutrition practice. 
  3. Counsel clients on the important roles sleep, stress, alcohol consumption, and diet play in positive performance outcomes.  
  4. Recommend foods and activities that can promote improved mental health in athletes. 
  5. Explore how collaboration among the health care team can improve clients’ health, well-being, and athletic performance.   

 

Additional Information

CDR Activity Type: 
102
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
    This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
Course opens: 
05/04/2025
Course expires: 
05/07/2026
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Devin Markle, Psy.D., is a licensed professional counselor and currently the Clinical and Sport Psychology Coach at Quinnipiac University. She is responsible for all the athletic programs and works to create individual, team and coaches' workshops related to sports psychology since 2021. Prior to Quinnipiac, Dr. Markle most recently was a psychological assistant for the Fulton Psychological Group where she specialized in working with four to 18 year olds, providing counseling for mental health concerns as well as performance psychology. In 2018, she started her own private practice which specialized in helping athletes and business people to reach their highest level of performance. 

From August 2015 to 2018, Dr. Markle served as the co-director of Mindset Development at the Mamba Sports Academy. She was responsible for training athletes of all ages and levels and implementing mental skills training with individuals. In addition, she helped design the NBA and NFL Pre-Draft Training Program while working with the Mamba Sports Academy. 

Dr. Markle earned her bachelor's degree in psychology and English at the University of Vermont in 2010. She then went on to earn her master’s in education in Counseling and Sport Psychology from Boston University in 2013. By 2020, Dr. Markle had also earned her PsyD in Clinical Psychology from California Southern University. 

Dana Angelo White, MS, RDN, ATC, is a registered dietitian nutritionist, certified athletic trainer, journalist, nutrition and fitness consultant and author of 9 cookbooks, including the best-selling “Healthy, Quick & Easy Smoothies,” “DASH Diet Meal Prep for Beginners.” and the “Healthy Air Fryer Cookbook.” 

Dana is the sports dietitian and clinical professor of Athletic Training and Sports Medicine at Quinnipiac University. She has been practicing as a dual credentialed clinician for over 15 years. She is an ambassador for F45 Training in Fairfield, Connecticut, a member of the USOC Sports Dietitian Registry and National Athletic Trainers’ Association liaison to the Sports and Human Performance Nutrition subgroup of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Dana is involved in several research projects and professional publications, covering topics including eating disorders in sport, professional nutrition practice, culinary medicine, and dietary supplement safety in sports medicine. 

Dana is the nutrition expert for FoodNetwork.com and the founding co-author of the Healthy Eats Blog. She has also served on advisory boards for Verywell, Greatist, Applegate, Chobani and the Egg Nutrition Center. She has worked as a spokesperson for Gatorade, NOW Sports, National Honey Board, National Mango Board, and Cooking Light Magazine. She has made appearances on Good Day Street Talk, Food Network.com, Access Hollywood, ABC Nightly News, NBC Connecticut, CT Style, GMA Health, New York Live, and Great Day Connecticut. Dana’s work has been featured on Food Network.com, Verywell.com, Cooking Light.com, Today’s Dietitian, SHAPE, SEVENTEEN, Prevention, Muscle & Fitness, Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Maxim Health, Parade, and Better Homes and Gardens.  

Dana earned her bachelor’s degree in Sports Medicine from Quinnipiac University and her master’s degree in nutrition education from Teachers’ College Columbia University. You will often find her HIIT training, making pizza in her backyard, or out on her paddleboard. She resides in Connecticut with her husband, three daughters, and Boston Terrier, Luna Margherita. 

 

DISCLOSURES

Dana White, faculty for this educational event, is a consultant/journalist for NOW Foods. All relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.

Devin Markle and planners of this educational activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. 

An “ineligible company” includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU). 



RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion. 

Physicians: Great Valley Publishing designates this live material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit (s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Social Workers: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Great Valley Publishing Company is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Social workers completing this course will receive 1.5 ethics, clinical, cultural competence, or general types of continuing education credits.​​

Available Credit

  • 1.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
    This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.

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