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Psychological support for sport coaches: An exploration of practitioner psychologist perspectives
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posted on 2018-01-22, 14:55 authored by Sarah Kelly, Richard C. Thelwell, Jamie BarkerJamie Barker, Chris HarwoodIn the present study we add to the literature by exploring the degree to which UK practitioner psychologists perceive themselves able to support sport coaches, and how professional training prepares psychologists for coach work across performance domains. Ten participants comprising seven sport and exercise psychologists with Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) practitioner psychologist status and three trainee psychologists studying towards the British Psychological Society (BPS) qualification in sport and exercise psychology (QSEP) were individually interviewed. All participants reported prior experience of working with coaches across all performance domains. We explored: practitioner’s understanding of the challenges coaches face within their job; practitioner’s experiences of coach work; perspectives about the ways in which practitioners could and should support coaches; and, the degree to which professional training prepares practitioners for coach work. Using recommended procedures of Connelly and Peltzer (2016), content analysis revealed practitioners perceived the challenges faced by coaches are different at grassroots level compared to those working with elite athletes, and that practitioners require skills to provide one-to-one coach support and group-based interventions. All practitioners perceived that training programmes do not adequately equip trainees with skills required for coach work. We discuss the implications for enhancing practitioner training in the UK.
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School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
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Journal of Sports SciencesCitation
KELLY, S. ...et al., 2018. Psychological support for sport coaches: An exploration of practitioner psychologist perspectives. Journal of Sports Sciences, 36 (16), pp.1852-1859.Publisher
© Taylor & FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2018-01-01Publication date
2018Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Sports Sciences on 4 January 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02640414.2018.1423854.ISSN
0264-0414Publisher version
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- en