Full Description
What makes a great sport psychologist? Is there an ideal style or approach? What do you need to consider when working with a client?
In this practical guide, Richard Keegan presents a user-friendly model of the sport psychologist's consulting processes and offers a framework for understanding best practice. Whether you are a trainee or a qualified sport psychologist, this book will help you to deliver a consistent, transparent, effective and ethical service at all levels of sport.
Being a Sport Psychologist:
- Provides a clear and coherent model which accommodates different styles, philosophies and experience levels;
- Contains worksheets to help you record, evaluate, understand and reflect;
- Offers a range of useful case studies and examples;
- Is the first book to describe the process of being a sport psychologist from beginning to end.
Contents
1. Introduction and Overview
2. Ethical Considerations: Protecting the client, yourself and your profession
3. Philosophical Assumptions: The aims, the landscape, and the strategy
4. The Intake Process: Establishing a relationship, aims, expectations, and boundaries
5. Needs Analysis: Establishing needs, skills, demands and goals
6. Case Formulation: Creating a working model
7. Choosing a Support Strategy: Case formulations, evidence and professional judgement
8. Planning the Support Programme
9. Delivery and Monitoring (... and Knowing When You're Finished)
10. Quality Assurance Processes: Recording, reflecting and supervision.
