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Sport and Exercise Psychology

Sport and Exercise Psychology. Dr Tony Westbury. Sport and Exercise Psychology. Sport Psychology – Performance Enhancement Exercise Psychology – Public Health. Training and accreditation for psychologists.

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Sport and Exercise Psychology

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  1. Sport and Exercise Psychology Dr Tony Westbury

  2. Sport and Exercise Psychology • Sport Psychology – Performance Enhancement • Exercise Psychology – Public Health

  3. Training and accreditation for psychologists. • British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) – Supervised Experience / Accreditation. • British Psychological Society (BPS) – GBR / Chartered Status

  4. My Job • Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology • BASES Accredited – sport science support. • Support work since 1991 in curling, cricket, chess, fencing, gymnastics, golf, hockey, ice and rock climbing, mountain biking, track and field athletics and RUGBY… • Most of my work for the past 7 years has been in professional Rugby Union. Including an 18 month period as HQ Sport Psychologist with the SRU. • Specialist interest – injury rehab.

  5. Career Flightpath • Undergraduate joint honours biology / psychology degree (1984) • Graduate Diploma in Psychology (1986) • Ph.D in Sport Psychology (registered 1988) • Part-time study whilst working. • First lecturing job – Newcastle Poly. (1991) • Staffordshire University (1992) • Nene College (1993 -1997) • Ph.D completion (1994)

  6. Career Flightpath (longhaul!) • Sheffield Hallam University (1998-2000) • I moved to SHU on the back of awarding of the UKSA to the city. • Napier University 2000 - present • BASES Accreditation 2000 • BASES Reaccreditation 2005 • BPS Chartered 2008

  7. Observations on my two roles • Academia; - Rapidly changing. • Extremely beaurocratic. • Excellence in teaching not as important as research output and income generation. This has implications for sport science. • Stable, well-paid and excellent pension. Holidays aren’t as good as most people imagine!

  8. Observations on my two roles • Sport Psychological Support and Consultancy; • Very challenging in many ways. • Exciting in a way that teaching isn’t. • A young person’s pursuit?? • Very unpredictable. • You need to have a self-employed person’s mindset.

  9. Observations as a BASES supervisor • Most sport science graduates don’t have enough psychology to be effective sport psychologists. • Most sport scientists are in a rush to get accredited. I can confidently report that it I did 10 years of support work before I gave more to my clients than I took from them. • The most important part of the training is counselling. It helps to develop a mature philosophy of practice. • A fair proportion of aspiring sport psychologists are motivated by a desire to ‘go to the Olympics’.

  10. Opportunities • Sport Psychology – still limited, much better than Pre1997. Trade-off between security of academia and risk of being self-employed. • Exercise Psychology – many more opportunities. A real growth area (excuse the pun!) Opportunities in many sectors of the economy.

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