Training and Supervision in Sport and Exercise Psychology

ISBN-13: 9781032434179 / Miękka / 2024 / 216 str.

Sahen Gupta

Opis

This book presents choices and challenges for trainees and supervisors, such as training and supervision mixing the science of doing sport and psychology with the art of decision-making to deliver services to athletes.

Spis treści

Section 1: Getting Started

 

1. Being a Trainee Psychology Consultant

Introduction

Preparing for a career as a sport psychology consultant

Career development and understanding of all factors

The Individual Level: Who am I? Who do I want to be?

The Sport Level: What sport? Why? Why now?

The Organisational Level: What organisational context?

The Global Level: Culture, geopolitics, socioeconomic

 

2. Setting the Scene: Guidelines for Ethical Professional Practice.

Introduction

Why do you need this book?

What do we need to consider for professional guidance?

Ethics and professional practice

The professionals

Client safety

Professional competence

Respect for difference

Respect for client autonomy

Non-exploitation of clients

Confidentiality

Contracting and consent

Summary

 

3. Practice Philosophy and Style.

Introduction

Philosophy of practice

Theoretical orientations

Fitting theoretical orientations into our journey

Turning towards an integrated approach

Promoting an integrative stance – A case example

Summary

 

4. Being a Reflective Practitioner

Introduction

Why should reflection matter to trainees?

Reflecting, learning, changing

Reflective practice in supervision

Ways and models of reflecting

Summary

 

5. Working with Equality, Diversity, Inclusion

Introduction

What is equality, diversity, inclusion (EDI)?

EDI & Ethics

Anti-discriminatory practice (ADP) while working with EDI

ADP & Reflective Learning: The T-R-E-E-S Model

 

Section 2: Getting Started with Service Delivery

 

6. Establishing a Placement

Introduction

Which kind of placement?

Knowing Me

Finding suitable placements

Agreeing a placement

Establishing a placement: Concluding comments

 

7. Getting Started with a Client.

Introduction

A note about clients

A structure for the first session

Plan for the first session

Relate sensitively with your client

Identify the presenting problem

Decide on an action plan

End with clarity, feedback, and next steps

Contracts

Third parties

Summary

 

8. Preparing a Formulation

Introduction

What is formulation?

Why is formulation important?

Process of formulation

Formulation across therapeutic modalities: An overview

Preparing a formulation: Key steps

Context: Who is the client and where is the issue located?

What are my objectives?

Testing formulation

Culturally sensitive formulation

Cultural hierarchies

Acknowledge and formulate sources of power

Language, ‘normal’ and lived experience patterns.

 

9. Delivering an Intervention

Introduction

What is an intervention?

What is the intervention targeting?

What level is the intervention aimed at?

Who is delivering the intervention?

What is the research supporting this intervention?

Is this intervention suited to context?

What is the timeline of effect at play here?

Are we responsible for ‘fixing’ our clients using interventions?

The role of the sport psychology consultant in an intervention

Sport psychology consultant factors in successful interventions

Concluding comments

 

Section 3: Writing for Assessment and Publication

 

10. Conducting and Publishing Academic Research

Introduction

Research ethics

Consent and confidentiality

Multiple relationships and boundaries

Maximising the research publication likelihood

Summary

 

11. How to Write a Process Report.

Introduction

Getting started

Audio recording

Written consent

Getting started with recording

Transcribing

Reading your transcript

Writing the process report

The beginning

The middle

The ending

 

12. How to Write a Client Case Study.

Introduction

Why do we need case studies?

What you need to write about within a case study.

Choosing a suitable case to present for assessment.

The contents of the case study

Presenting a theoretical position

A Person-Centred Approach

Choosing a suitable case

Writing the first draft

Revising your draft(s)

Fitting the pieces together

Submitting for assessment or publication

Responding to feedback

Summary

 

13. Presenting at a Conference.

Introduction

Why should you present your research?

Finding the right conference

What type of presentation should you give?

Making the most out of your conference attendance

Creating your presentation

Preparing for a poster presentation at a conference

Preparing for a single-speaker presentation at a conference

Summary

 

Section 4: The Supervisory Process

 

14. Seeking Supervision and Flourishing through It.

Introduction

Seeking supervision – What is it? And what do I need?

Different supervision forms

A model of supervision

A three-step approach – What, how, and what now

What? (focus on facts)

How? (focus on feelings)

What now? (focus on action)

Preventing difficulties before they arise

Summary

 

15. A Supervisors’ View of Training and Supervision.

Introduction

Start as you mean to go on: Make it work for you

Challenges and benefits of group supervision

Reflecting on challenges encountered during individual supervision:

Summary

 

16. A Trainee’s View of Training and Supervision

Introduction

About this trainee

Key skills from a trainee’s view

What does the trainee see practice to be?

Supervision: From the trainee’s perspective

Matters arising in supervision

Conflict and conflict resolution

Resolving conflicts in supervision

Feedback and Self-assessment

“I” as “I” & “I” as “Psych”: the interactions of Person & Professional

 

Section 5: Endings and Beginnings

 

17. Referring a Client.

Introduction

What is a referral?

Boundaries

Boundaries of competence

Receiving and conducting referrals

Receiving a referral

Making a referral

Summary

 

18. Preparing for and Sitting Your Viva Voce.

Introduction

How to prepare – some suggestions

Staying calm

Read your work over

Check your institutional or training programme policies

Research your examiners

Prepare questions and practise, practise, practise

Whether to have a mock viva

Summary

 

19. Jobs, Job Interviews and CPD in Lifelong Learning.

Introduction

CPD and lifelong learning

Private practice or paid employment?

Jobs and Interviews

Summary

 

O autorze

Paul McCarthy, PhD leads the taught doctorate in sport and exercise psychology at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. He is a BPS chartered psychologist, HCPC registered sport and exercise psychologist and Senior Teaching Fellow. He developed the first taught doctorate in sport and exercise psychology in Scotland and the UK.

 

Sahen Gupta, PhD is a lecturer and practitioner in sport and exercise psychology at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He has published peer-reviewed papers in psychology and sport and exercise psychology in SCOPUS indexed journals, including in Frontiers in Psychology. He specialises in resilience, positive environments, integrative psychotherapy and youth sport environments.

 

 

Lindsey Burns, PhD is a lecturer in psychology at Herriot Watt University, UK. Lindsey is a chartered psychologist with the British Psychological Society and a HCPC practitioner health psychologist. She is a Member of the BPS Special Group for Coaching Psychology and has qualified with the Coaching Academy in both ‘Personal’ and ‘Corporate and Executive’ coaching.

 

Bryan McCann, PhD is a BPS chartered sport and exercise psychologist and HCPC practitioner psychologist. Bryan provides psychological support to a range of national, international and Olympic level athletes and teams in different sports, including football, golf, swimming, table tennis and skiing and provides consultancy for organisations such as the Scottish FA, The Camanachd Association, Scottish Swimming and Sport Scotland.