Multicultural Training in Applied Sport Psychology
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One of the challenges facing the field of applied sport psychology involves addressing the needs of athletes of various racial/ethnic backgrounds. An important step in facing this challenge is providing sport psychology graduate students with training in multicultural issues. A review of current models of sport psychology graduate training reveals a lack of emphasis on multicultural training. In this article we offer a description of multicultural training. We also provide a rationale for its inclusion in sport psychology programs and present several models and ideas for implementing multicultural training.
Matthew P. Martens and Michael Mobley are with Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, 16 Hill Hall, the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211; Samuel J. Zizzi is with the Department of Physical Education at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 25606.
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