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Joint position stand of the ISSP, FEPSAC, ASPASP, and AASP on professional accreditation

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posted on 2018-07-23, 12:48 authored by Robert J. Schinke, Gangyan Si, Liwei Zhang, Anne-Marie Elbe, Jack Watson, Chris Harwood, Peter C. Terry
© 2018 Objectives: To situate the current status of accreditation in four key international societies, ASPASP, FEPSAC, AASP, and ISSP, in a historical backdrop and then to draw on these approaches to propose future directions and developments relating to practical standards. Design: A review of the origins and current status of accreditation in four international sport psychology societies is utilized to situate the recent prominence of professional standards and the importance of these in our global professional community. This review is written temporally from past, to present, to future prospects. Method: A presentation of societal accreditation foci is situated temporally using the following structure: (a) emergence and historical backdrop from each society, (b) emergence and reasoning for accreditation, (c) current societal standards/status of accreditation, (d) future developments in the society's accreditation system, and (e) reflections and recommendations for global standards, with suggestions of how this might be accomplished. Results: The presentation of scholarship is intended to serve as a form of advocacy for improved accreditation standards within the global professional community. The societal perspectives call for a balance between localized cultural infusion and proposed global guidelines upon which professionals might meet a converged reasonable practice threshold. Conclusions: Sport psychology accreditation is increasingly important as the applied realm of this profession spans community physical activity/recreation, and developmental and elite/professional sport. Accredited practices must integrate universal and local approaches.

History

School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Volume

38

Pages

107 - 115

Citation

SCHINKE, R.J. ... et al., 2018. Joint position stand of the ISSP, FEPSAC, ASPASP, and AASP on professional accreditation. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 38, pp. 107-115.

Publisher

© Elsevier

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Psychology of Sport and Exercise and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2018.06.005

Acceptance date

2018-06-11

Publication date

2018-06-12

Copyright date

2018

ISSN

1469-0292

Language

  • en