Consulting In Sport Psychology
This important book provides practical and immediately applicable information about consulting in sport psychology in an accessible, step-by-step manner, focusing on lessons based on individual, team, and organizational levels.
Evidence-based information and real-world sport psychology consulting experiences are detailed to enable practitioners to place sport psychology consulting in practical perspectives, identify meaningful and needed opportunities to engage in, and incorporate sport psychology consulting into their professional practices. Each chapter includes viewpoints, methods, procedures, and illustrations, and end-of-chapter exercises which challenge the practitioner to grow as a sport psychology consultant.
Intended for practitioners and graduate students of sport psychology, as well as other professionals who consult about the mental aspect of sport and organizational performance, the book provides an authentic guide to consulting and practice development.
Charles A. Maher, PsyD, CMPC, FAASP is a licensed psychologist; sport and performance psychologist with the Cleveland Guardians Baseball Organization; and Professor Emeritus of Applied Psychology at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. For 37 years, he has provided mental performance and mental health consulting services to athletes, coaches, support staff, and executives in Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, Women’s National Basketball Association, National Football League, National Hockey League, collegiate sport organizations, as well as in tennis, boxing, and horseracing.