A Psychologist in the World of Intercollegiate Sports: Professional Development Issues

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-303
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Carr
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Student Athletes ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
Psychological Care ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Intercollegiate Sports ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Professional Journey

This paper describes one psychologist’s professional journey providing clinical sport psychological services to student athletes, from training to first position, and on to current roles and responsibilities. Obstacles in providing psychological care to student-athletes in the intercollegiate setting are highlighted and an approach to overcoming these obstacles is articulated. Most importantly, this paper highlights the consequences of both interdisciplinary conflict within sport psychology and poorly trained professionals. The importance of ongoing professional development for both the individual practitioner and the field of sport psychology as a whole is thoroughly presented and discussed.

Clinical Sport Psychology in Intercollegiate Athletics

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric A. Zillmer ◽  
Rebecca Weidensaul Gigli
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Intercollegiate Athletics ◽  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Student Athletes ◽  
Competitive Sports ◽  
The Public ◽  
Intercollegiate Sports ◽  
The University

Over the last two decades, there has been an increase in participation in intercollegiate sports with over 380,000 student-athletes participating in nearly 100 athletic conferences at 1,100 NCAA membership schools. Simultaneously, the professional development in the field of sport psychology has paralleled the public draw of competitive sports. This paper explores, from the university athletics departmental perspective, the opportunities as well as the challenges that clinical sport psychologists may encounter within this interesting and stimulating field. The sport psychologist’s training and expertise uniquely prepares him or her to play an important and rewarding role in the lives of coaches, student-athletes and all those who support them.

A Sport Psychology Service Delivery Heuristic: Building on Theory and Practice

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Poczwardowski ◽  
Clay P. Sherman ◽  
Keith P. Henschen
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Program Implementation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
The Self ◽  
Service Program ◽  
Professional Boundaries ◽  
Psychology Service ◽  
Unique Style

This article outlines 11 factors that a consultant may consider when planning, implementing, and evaluating psychological services. These factors are professional boundaries; professional philosophy; making contact; assessment; conceptualizing athletes’ concerns and potential interventions; range, types, and organization of service; program implementation; managing the self as an intervention instrument; program and consultant evaluation; conclusions and implications; and leaving the setting. All 11 factors represent important considerations for applied sport psychology professionals. Although consultants each have their own unique style and approach, these 11 factors are prerequisite considerations that form the foundation of a consultant’s effective practice. These guidelines may provide direction for a practitioner’s professional development, and as such, need time and commitment to be realized.

Sport Psychology in a Collegiate Athletic Department Setting

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald B. Chamberlain
Keyword(s):  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Student Athletes ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Collegiate Athletics ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
Athletic Department ◽  
Brigham Young University ◽  
Sport Psychologist ◽  
Professional Psychologists ◽  
Collegiate Environment

The author shares his experiences as a sport psychologist working for the Athletic Department at Brigham Young University. He describes both his educational background and the training experiences that prepared him for a career as a psychologist in a collegiate athletics department. The development and evolution of the sport psychologist role at Brigham Young University is also described, and a model for conceptualizing sport psychology with student-athletes is provided. The methods for delivering psychological services to student-athletes are detailed, and a typical daily, weekly, and semester schedule for a sport psychologist is presented. The author concludes by sharing what he finds challenging about working as a sport psychologist in a collegiate environment and what he has found most enjoyable about this career alternative for professional psychologists.

scholarly journals REFLECTIONS ON VA TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT FROM INTERVIEWS ON CAREER PATHS IN GEROPSYCHOLOGY

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S11-S11
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M Shumaker ◽  
M Lindsey Jacobs ◽  
Jessica V Strong ◽  
Rebecca S Allen
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Veterans Affairs ◽  
Department Of Veterans Affairs ◽  
Psychology Trainees ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
The U.S

Abstract The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is one of the largest trainers and employers of psychologists in the world and many clinical geropsychologists have worked for the VA for some portion if not all of their careers. The current qualitative analysis was conducted on phone interviews with 28 psychologists and psychology trainees regarding careers in geropsychology that focused on participants’ reflections on factors that influenced their career paths. This presentation will summarize subthemes from the many participant responses that included statements about the VA. Examples include discussion of the convenience and comfort of transitioning to a VA job after training within this system as well as reflections about the timing of professional development conversations with supervisors and mentors on VA internships and fellowships given the proximity to entering the workforce. Identified benefits and challenges of work in the VA will also be discussed (e.g., varied roles and responsibilities).

Psychologist-Sport Psychologist Liaison Between Counseling and Psychological Services and Intercollegiate Athletics

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Flowers
Keyword(s):  
Intercollegiate Athletics ◽  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Student Athletes ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
Athletic Departments ◽  
University Counseling ◽  
Athletic Coaching ◽  
Sport Psychologist ◽  
Intercollegiate Athletic Departments

Acting as a liaison between a university’s counseling and psychological services and intercollegiate athletics department is an emerging alternative career path in professional psychology. This article details how a psychologist-sport psychologist liaison role can provide both psychological counseling and sport psychology consulting in a university setting. In addition, the author outlines the mission and goals of such a position, the departments within which this work is carried out, how psychology and applied sport psychology services are conceptualized and integrated, and the responsibilities and service duties of a counseling psychologist and sport psychologist to university student-athletes, coaches, and staff. It is hoped that illustrating this relationship between university counseling and psychological services and athletic departments will demonstrate how campus resources can be employed to assist student-athletes with performance enhancement, personal enrichment, and life skills development. In addition, the author offers examples of ways that athletic coaching, administration, and program development can be enhanced through cultivation of positive relationships between university counseling and psychological services, and intercollegiate athletic departments.

New walls to keep the bad out: populism and the totalitarian psyche

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-130
Author(s):  
Coline Covington
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
Group Solidarity ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
Psychological Understanding ◽  
Psychic Development ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Cold War

The Berlin Wall came down on 9 November 1989 and marked the end of the Cold War. As old antagonisms thawed a new landscape emerged of unification and tolerance. Censorship was no longer the principal means of ensuring group solidarity. The crumbling bricks brought not only freedom of movement but freedom of thought. Now, nearly thirty years later, globalisation has created a new balance of power, disrupting borders and economies across the world. The groups that thought they were in power no longer have much of a say and are anxious about their future. As protest grows, we are beginning to see that the old antagonisms have not disappeared but are, in fact, resurfacing. This article will start by looking at the dissembling of a marriage in which the wall that had peacefully maintained coexistence disintegrates and leads to a psychic development that uncannily mirrors that of populism today. The individual vignette leads to a broader psychological understanding of the totalitarian dynamic that underlies populism and threatens once again to imprison us within its walls.

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Simone
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cartesian Dualism ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Existential Perspective

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world: A Heideggerian Study explores Woolf’s treatment of the relationship between self and world from a phenomenological-existential perspective. This study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf’s novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual’s connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual’s relationship to and with the world.

“Utopia First!” A Machiavellian Conception of Solidarity in More's Utopia

Moreana ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (Number 209) (1) ◽  
pp. 79-93
Author(s):  
Marie-Claire Phélippeau
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Farm Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Difficulties ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Democratic Elections ◽  
Communal Organization

This paper shows how solidarity is one of the founding principles in Thomas More's Utopia (1516). In the fictional republic of Utopia described in Book II, solidarity has a political and a moral function. The principle is at the center of the communal organization of Utopian society, exemplified in a number of practices such as the sharing of farm work, the management of surplus crops, or the democratic elections of the governor and the priests. Not only does solidarity benefit the individual Utopian, but it is a prerequisite to ensure the prosperity of the island of Utopia and its moral preeminence over its neighboring countries. However, a limit to this principle is drawn when the republic of Utopia faces specific social difficulties, and also deals with the rest of the world. In order for the principle of solidarity to function perfectly, it is necessary to apply it exclusively within the island or the republic would be at risk. War is not out of the question then, and compassion does not apply to all human beings. This conception of solidarity, summed up as “Utopia first!,” could be dubbed a Machiavellian strategy, devised to ensure the durability of the republic. We will show how some of the recommendations of Realpolitik made by Machiavelli in The Prince (1532) correspond to the Utopian policy enforced to protect their commonwealth.

Drowning in negativism, self-hate, doubt, madness: Linguistic insights into Sylvia Plath’s experience of depression

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsófia Demjén
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Linguistic Methods ◽  
Linguistic Approach

This paper demonstrates how a range of linguistic methods can be harnessed in pursuit of a deeper understanding of the ‘lived experience’ of psychological disorders. It argues that such methods should be applied more in medical contexts, especially in medical humanities. Key extracts from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath are examined, as a case study of the experience of depression. Combinations of qualitative and quantitative linguistic methods, and inter- and intra-textual comparisons are used to consider distinctive patterns in the use of metaphor, personal pronouns and (the semantics of) verbs, as well as other relevant aspects of language. Qualitative techniques provide in-depth insights, while quantitative corpus methods make the analyses more robust and ensure the breadth necessary to gain insights into the individual experience. Depression emerges as a highly complex and sometimes potentially contradictory experience for Plath, involving both a sense of apathy and inner turmoil. It involves a sense of a split self, trapped in a state that one cannot overcome, and intense self-focus, a turning in on oneself and a view of the world that is both more negative and more polarized than the norm. It is argued that a linguistic approach is useful beyond this specific case.

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