The identity of the sport psychology profession: A multinational perspective

Quartiroli, Alessandro; Wagstaff, Christopher; Hunter, Heather; Martín, Daniel Ruiz

doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2022.102140

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“…As both Nicole and Eric indicated, engagement in the CoP allowed them to widen their perspectives of SRC support, identify boundaries of competence, and understand opportunities for interdisciplinary engagement. In addition, recent research in sport psychology has demonstrated the importance of intradisciplinary collaboration in sustaining professional identity, along with expertise (Quartiroli et al, 2022). Thus, having intradisciplinary opportunities like the learning partnership demonstrated within this CoP may be an effective strategy for supporting identity, as well as individual and collective lifelong learning in the mental performance field.…”

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Knowledge translation and the untapped resource: Exploring the value of a community of practice for mental performance consultants.

Seguin¹,

Culver²,

Kraft³

2023

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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This research highlights the potential significance of leveraging communities of practice (CoPs) for supporting ongoing learning and advancing professional practice. As formal CoPs are rare within the mental performance field, this held a unique opportunity to understand the value gained from active engagement in intradisciplinary collaboration. It also posed an opportunity to share how professionals seeking to develop knowledge in niche domains of practice might leverage similar forms of social learning spaces. These two purposes inspired this qualitative case study. Our CoP comprised a group of eight experienced mental performance consultants from elite sports with the goal of understanding and exploring our role in supporting athletes with sport-related concussions. Individual reflections and collaboratively developed documents were thematically analyzed using E. Wenger-Trayner & Wenger-Trayner's (2021) value creation framework to assess the value created through CoP participation. Positive value across all eight cycles of the framework was identified (e.g., identification and clarification of our role in concussion support-transformative value; critical boundaries within the practical and theoretical concussion landscape-orienting value). Through this article, we explore these values in an effort to provide insight to practitioners of various domains of psychology wishing to create similar social learning spaces. Public Significance StatementThis article highlights the experiences of mental performance consultants who participated in a community of practice (CoP) designed to explore a niche area of professional practice (i.e., concussion support). Reflections from those who participated illustrate value in learning, knowledge translation, and applied practice, while also identifying structural elements which made the CoP successful.

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Section: Practical Value For Professional Development and Lifelong Le...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowledge translation and the untapped resource: Exploring the value of a community of practice for mental performance consultants.

Seguin¹,

Culver²,

Kraft³

2023

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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“…Scholar–Practitioner? Quartiroli et al [ 16 ] examined what they considered the under-researched construct of professional identity within sport psychology and lamented that a failure to address this posed a risk to the future of the profession. They described professional identity as an understanding and integration of generally agreed-upon professional philosophies and a scope of practice that is consistent with the consultant’s personal values and beliefs, which have evolved over the course of a career.…”

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Questions of Identity in Sport Psychology Scholar–Practitioners

Howells

2023

Sports

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As with other academic disciplines, sport psychology academics working in higher education (HE) in the United Kingdom (UK) in lecturer and senior lecturer positions are typically required to hold a PhD in sport psychology or a related discipline. To work in applied practice with athletes, coaches, National Governing Bodies (NGBs), and sporting organisations, practitioners are required to acquire a qualification that affords registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) through either the British Psychology Society (BPS) or the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES). Accordingly, scholar–practitioners, who have “a foot in both worlds” (Tenkasi and Hay, 2008), are required to have two related but distinct qualifications, each of which requires considerable resources (i.e., time, finances, and commitment) to achieve. This paper addresses some of the dilemmas and conflicts that these individuals may encounter in their primary workplace, which typically does not provide for applied practice (either in time or financial incentives). Specifically, issues around the knowledge-transfer gap will be addressed. Real-world examples will be in the form of reflections from the author’s own experiences. I am a senior lecturer in sport and exercise psychology at Cardiff Metropolitan University and the programme director of the MSc Sport Psychology. The role requires me to be HCPC registered, as well as have a PhD in sport psychology. I am also an HCPC Practitioner Psychologist, registered following completion of the BPS Qualification in Sport and Exercise Psychology (QSEP). My practice is limited to minimal private work and the supervision of trainee sport psychologists (BPS). At the end of the paper, I leave the reader with three questions to prompt reflection on what being a sport psychologist means and what contributions scholar–practitioners may offer to academic institutions and the clients we work with.

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Centralizing an ecological sport psychology through science-practice dialectics

Schinke,

Li,

et al. 2024

Asian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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The identity of the sport psychology profession: A multinational perspective

Cited by 17 publications

References 58 publications

Knowledge translation and the untapped resource: Exploring the value of a community of practice for mental performance consultants.

Knowledge translation and the untapped resource: Exploring the value of a community of practice for mental performance consultants.

Questions of Identity in Sport Psychology Scholar–Practitioners

Centralizing an ecological sport psychology through science-practice dialectics

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