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Sexual Harassment In Athletic Training

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Over spring break, I read five very interesting articles attaining to sexual harassment. I learned a lot about sexual harassment from reading these articles, and I believe that that it I important for athletic trainers and other health-care professionals to understand and know how to identify acts of sexual harassment. I believe that these articles will be very beneficial to me in the future, when I become a certified athletic trainer, and am interacting with other co-workers, athletes, health-care professionals and as well as other individuals in a professional manner, and respectful manner. Also, the articles provided me with information on what I should and should not do as an employee who hears about some sort of sexual harassment taking …show more content…

When talking about the profession of athletic training, the first thing that always came to my mind regarding sexual harassment was an act made by a professional athletic trainer towards a student- athlete. After reading this articles, I learned that sexual harassment does not always only effect a student-athlete, but it may also effect other individuals, including “coaches, athletic administrators, certified athletic trainers, athletic training students, therapists, and other health-care professionals as well”.1 The statistic that struck me the most when reading the “Perceptions of Sexual Harassment in Athletic Training” article was that during a survey of 525 undergraduates, almost 29 percent of men reported that they were sexually harassed by a collegiate professor at least one time”.2 Whenever I hear of sexual harassment, my first instinct is that the victim of the sexual harassment is a female, but after reading the articles I realized that many males are also affected by sexual …show more content…

According to the articles Jamie’s boss Mike Rollo was allegedly sexually harassing Jamie, “verbally calling her names”.4 As an employee as well as being someone’s boss, I believe the person in charge should be the individual who is stopping occurrences like this from happening, rather than being the individual who is sexually harassing one of their employees. The person who is highest in charge should always be actually professional, in order to set a standard example for the rest of the staff. I believe when an individual who sees one of their bosses acting a specific way, then the other individuals will act that same as well, leading to other staff members calling Jamie Whited names as

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