1st Edition
Professional Skills in Sport Psychology Consultancy Personal and Interpersonal Dynamics
Professional Skills in Sport Psychology Consultancy enhanced sport psychology consultancy through raising awareness of intrapersonal and interpersonal professional practice skills. The book chapters focus on the aspiring practitioner’s personal and professional development when working with all kinds of recipients of psychological support in sport including individual athletes, teams, coaches, parents, and administrators.
Organised in two sections; intrapersonal issues and interpersonal dynamics, this new book steers readers through the many subtle and complex factors that impact on the professional relationships that ultimately influence successful outcomes and provides guidance for students, researchers, and practitioners about the many intrapersonal and interpersonal processes involved in the working alliance, professional relationship and sport psychology consultancy.
Professional Skills in Sport Psychology Consultancy is a core text for upper-level undergraduate, and postgraduate sport psychology students, sport psychologists undergoing professional training, and early career sport psychologists.
Section 1: Intrapersonal Processes
1. Psychologists are People Too
Jonathan Katz
2. Reflective Practice as an Intrapersonal Process
Nick Wadsworth
3. Self-Care for the Sport Psychologist
Lee-Ann Sharp and Ken Hodge
4. Self-Disclosure in Sport Psychology Practice
Lauren R. Tufton, Scott Bradley and Brian Hemmings
5. Impression Management and Neophyte Sport Psychology Practitioners
Chloe Oldfield, Hannah Garratt and James Maiden
Section 2: Interpersonal Dynamics
6. From Gaining Entry to Successful Entrances
Mark W. Aoyagi, Breigh Jones-Coplin, Barbora Kijasova, Brian Bishop, Lauren H. Gunter and Mason Blake
7. Developing Rapport in Client-Practitioner Relationships
Iain Gair and Tim Holder
8. The Use of Humor in the Client-Practitioner Relationship
Stacy Winter, Stephen Pack, Monna Arvinen-Barrow and Brian Hemmings
9. Navigating Critical Moments in Practice
Jo Batey and Sarah Murray
10. Cultural Competence in Sport Psychology Relationships
Tshepang Tshube and Maipelo Lokgaba
11. The Subtleties of Doing Sport Psychology with Post-Pandemic Youth Athletes
Monna Arvinen-Barrow and Amanda J. Visek
12. Ethical Issues in Multidisciplinary Teams: Conflict of the Sport Psychologist Dual-Role
Peter Schneider and Helena Schmitz
Biography
Brian Hemmings, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Sport Psychology at The University of Winchester UK. Brian is a Registered Sport and Exercise Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a Fellow of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES). He has published extensively in applied sport psychology including co-authoring five books, 15 book chapters and over 50 peer reviewed research articles. He has worked in sport psychology combining academic, supervisory, mentoring and applied roles since 1993, having 30 years of experience as a consultant psychologist across multiple sports in a variety of training and competition environments. He has presented extensively worldwide to a variety of audiences including coaches, athletes, students, and psychologists.
Tim Holder, PhD is a Registered Sport and Exercise Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a Fellow of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES). Tim is an applied sport psychology consultant and supervisor to students working towards practitioner status in the UK. He is Programme Leader for the MSc in Applied Sport Psychology at the University of Winchester.
Stacy Winter, PhD is an Associate Professor in Applied Sport Psychology at St Mary’s University in Twickenham, London, UK. Her research work is primarily focused on developing professional practice in sport psychology, encompassing performance, well-being, and mental health. She has published widely across the sport psychology domain, in addition to external partner work in health-care settings, and multidisciplinary applied collaborations. Stacy sits on the editorial board for Case Studies in Sport and Exercise Psychology and reviews for every prestigious journal in the subject field. In addition to research activities, Stacy is a Registered Sport and Exercise Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) Accredited Practitioner. Her experience stems over 18-years of providing psychological support both within high-performance sporting environments and through consulting to a range of professional and Olympic sporting clients and organisations.
