Sunday, 6 April 2008
Are you a good practitioner?
Hi whoever picks this up first,
I would like this blog to be an intelligent discussion which I hope will ultimately inform the Way Forward for applied sport psych practitioners in the UK.I was privy to a conversation the other day, in which the two participants agreed that a wide base of psychological knowledge, such as that afforded by a psychology UG course with GBR, is not strictly necessary to practise effectively. This started me thinking about my own practices. I am, after all, the product of a combination of my genetics and my environment, and I bring both my innate atrributes and acquired knowledge to bear on each-and-every situation. This in turn prompted me to think about the Gestalt approach to problem-solving, and how my ability to mentally step back from a situation, to obtain a broad-brush overview of the inevitable multiple facets of the 'issue', so to speak, enables me to address it to the best of my ability.
We (psychologists) are frequently faced with skepticism - sometimes with good cause - and this is, in part, due to the lack of a clear definition of what constitutes an effective and/or capable practitioner in this field; other helping professions arguably have more clear-cut criteria. When the topic of applied sport psych practitioner effectiveness has been investigated, interpersonal skills seem to rank highly amonst athletes' preferences, as opposed to a string of qualifications. So my question is, how do YOU judge your own/others' suitability to practise? Answers in brief, please, and let's see where this takes us...
Dan
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I would like this blog to be an intelligent discussion which I hope will ultimately inform the Way Forward for applied sport psych practitioners in the UK.I was privy to a conversation the other day, in which the two participants agreed that a wide base of psychological knowledge, such as that afforded by a psychology UG course with GBR, is not strictly necessary to practise effectively. This started me thinking about my own practices. I am, after all, the product of a combination of my genetics and my environment, and I bring both my innate atrributes and acquired knowledge to bear on each-and-every situation. This in turn prompted me to think about the Gestalt approach to problem-solving, and how my ability to mentally step back from a situation, to obtain a broad-brush overview of the inevitable multiple facets of the 'issue', so to speak, enables me to address it to the best of my ability.
We (psychologists) are frequently faced with skepticism - sometimes with good cause - and this is, in part, due to the lack of a clear definition of what constitutes an effective and/or capable practitioner in this field; other helping professions arguably have more clear-cut criteria. When the topic of applied sport psych practitioner effectiveness has been investigated, interpersonal skills seem to rank highly amonst athletes' preferences, as opposed to a string of qualifications. So my question is, how do YOU judge your own/others' suitability to practise? Answers in brief, please, and let's see where this takes us...
Dan
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