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Sport psychologists


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    • Sports psychologists
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    • found: Work cat.: Exploring the role of the sport psychologist, 2000.
    • found: Collaborative research involving the sport psychologist within sports injury settings, 1998.
    • found: Foundations of sport and exercise psychology, 2007:p. 21 (contemporary sport and exercise psychologists engage in many roles; clinical sport and exercise psychologists trained to treat athletes, exercisers with severe emotional disorders; educational sport psychology psychologists receive training in exercise and sport science, related fields, serve as mental coaches)
    • found: International Society of Sport Psychology web site, viewed 4 November 2022:(only worldwide organisation of scholars explicitly concerned with sport psychology; formed in 1965)
    • found: American Pscyhological Association web site, viewed 4 November 2022:sport psychology (APA recognizes sport psychology as a proficiency acquired after a doctoral degree in one of the primary areas of psychology and licensure as a psychologist; Sport Psychology interventions are designed to assist athletes and other sports participants)
    • found: Colman, A. M. A dictionary of psychology, 2015:sports psychology (n. Application to the performance of competitors in all types of sports of research into skills and into psychological factors associated with athletic performance. Also called sport psychology.)
    • found: Oxford English dictionary, online, viewed 4 November 2022:sport psychologist (n. = sports psychologist) sports psychologist (n. a practitioner or student of sports psychology.) sport psychology (n. = sports psychology) sports psychology (n. (a branch of) psychology applied to aspects of participation in sport, esp. with the aim of enhancing performance in competitive sports.)
    • notfound: Merriam-Webster, online, viewed 4 November 2022
  • History Notes

    • [Heading changed from Sports psychologists to Sport psychologists in March 2023.]
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    • 2008-07-24: new
    • 2023-03-09: revised
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