American swimmer Michael Phelps, Canadian rower Silken Laumann, and Swedish hockey player Robin Lehner all have something in common. They are accomplished elite athletes who have courageously shared their battle with mental illness to change the landscape of mental health in sport. Indeed, we are
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Providing Mental Health Care to an Elite Athlete: The Perspective of the Canadian Centre for Mental Health and Sport Team
Krista Van Slingerland, Natalie Durand-Bush, Poppy DesClouds, and Göran Kenttä
Person-Centered Sport Psychology Practice: A Framework for Working With Emotions and Complex Processes
Sahen Gupta and Elaine Duncan
( Rogers, 1957 , 1965 ) into four ingredients (i.e., congruence, unconditional positive regard [UPR], nondirectiveness, and empathy) and show how these can be operationalized in sport. We only use the word ingredients as a convenience and not to suggest an alteration to Rogers’s theory. These four
Evaluating the Profile of Psychological Strategies: An Applied Profile for Assessing the Perceived Effectiveness of Athletes’ Psychological Strategies in Sport
Umut Doğan
resilience and Hardy et al.’s ( 1996 ) unified model, which was the most comprehensive model of psychological preparation in sport. The natural tie between psychological strategies and desirable outcomes proposed in these models inspired the development of the ProPS, which provided a more nuanced measurement
The Transition From Sport Psychology to Psychotherapy: The Journey of a Young Athlete Fighting Cancer
Sara Biondi, Cristiana Conti, Emmanouil Georgiadis, and Maurizio Bertollo
We present the case study of an athlete (Luca; invented name for privacy purposes) who was diagnosed with cancer during his early sporting career. Before the disease, Luca’s parents contacted the sport psychologist to support and optimize his performance. Following one year of sport psychology
Developing an Applied Profile for Assessing the Perceived Effectiveness of Athletes’ Psychological Strategies: A Case Study at the Australian Institute of Sport
Umut Doğan
Context Organizational Context and Practice Philosophy In 2016, the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and the University of Canberra Research Institute for Sport and Exercise recruited me as a PhD student to work on a project focusing on understanding and building resilience in competitive sport
An Intervention to Support Collegiate Student-Athletes in the Transition to Meaningful Lifetime Physical Activity
Melinda B. Smith, Diane L. Gill, and Erin J. Reifsteck
Transitioning to sustainable lifetime physical activity following the end of a competitive sport career can feel daunting after years of focused training for a single sport. As student-athletes (SAs) enter this transition, learning to integrate physical activity within new life commitments can be
Erratum. Sport Psychology Practitioners’ Contributions to the Drafting Process of a Professional Esports Team: A Case Study
Case Studies in Sport and Exercise Psychology
TO OUR READERS: An error was made in the publishing of the following article in its initial appearance online: Brain, J., Wright, O., Quartiroli, A., & Wagstaff, C.R.D. (2024). Sport psychology practitioners’ contributions to the drafting process of a professional esports team: A case study. Case
Reflect In and Speak Out: An Autoethnographic Study on Race and the Embedded Sport Psychology Practitioner
Sahen Gupta
This paper is written from the lived experience perspective of a Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) doctoral student and trainee sport psychologist in the United Kingdom. Autobiographical experiences are connected to situate the impact of race in applied sport psychology. It reflects upon
Development and Implementation of the National Mental Health Referral Network for Elite Athletes: A Case Study of the Australian Institute of Sport
Simon Rice, Matt Butterworth, Matti Clements, Daniel Josifovski, Sharyn Arnold, Cecily Schwab, Kerryn Pennell, and Rosemary Purcell
-quality care for these subpopulations. Elite athletes, however, are a population group who, up until recently, have been ignored from targeted mental health programming. Organizations, coaches, and sport-governing bodies can do much to support the mental well-being of athletes ( Hainline & Reardon, 2019
A Case Study of Using an Adult-Oriented Coaching Survey and Debrief Session to Facilitate Coaches’ Learning in Masters Sport
Bettina Callary, Catalina Belalcazar, Scott Rathwell, and Bradley W. Young
Masters sport clubs/leagues are designed and fostered for Masters athletes (MAs), adults who practice and compete in sport that is promoted to people who are beyond the normative age of peak performance in their respective sports ( Callary et al., 2021 ). MAs are competitive leisure-sport athletes
