Being a Sport Psychologist

ISBN-13: 9781137300898 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 304 str.

Richard Keegan

Opis

What makes a great sport psychologist? Is there an ideal style or approach? What do you need to consider when working with a client?

In this practical guide, Richard Keegan presents a user-friendly model of the sport psychologist's consulting processes and offers a framework for understanding best practice. Whether you are a trainee or a qualified sport psychologist, this book will help you to deliver a consistent, transparent, effective and ethical service at all levels of sport.

Being a Sport Psychologist:

- provides a clear and coherent model which accommodates different styles, philosophies and experience levels;
- contains worksheets to help you record, evaluate, understand and reflect;
- offers a range of useful case studies and examples;
- is the first book to describe the process of being a sport psychologist from beginning to end.

Spis treści

1. Introduction and Overview.- 2. Ethical Considerations: Protecting the client, yourself and your profession.- 3. Philosophical Assumptions: The aims, the landscape, and the strategy.- 4. The Intake Process: Establishing a relationship, aims, expectations, and boundaries.- 5. Needs Analysis: Establishing needs, skills, demands and goals.- 6. Case Formulation: Creating a working model.- 7. Choosing a Support Strategy: Case formulations, evidence and professional judgement.- 8. Planning the Support Programme.- 9. Delivery and Monitoring (... and Knowing When You're Finished).- 10. Quality Assurance Processes: Recording, reflecting and supervision.

O autorze

Richard Keegan is Assistant Professor in Sport and Exercise Psychology at the University of Canberra, Australia. He is a registered Sport and Exercise Psychologist and also supervises trainees. He was previously Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Sport Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK.