Case-solution Companion to Building Consulting Skills for Sport and Performance Psychology

This international compilation offers a range of potential solutions to case studies that cover pertinent issues within a variety of performance environments.

Offering a companion text to Building Consulting Skills for Sport and Performance Psychology: An International Case Study Collection, this book provides three solutions for each of the case studies introduced. In so doing, it highlights that there is no "one-answer-fits-all" solution to the common issues with sport and performance psychology consulting and offers various suggestions for how an individual may wish to approach these and similar cases. Solutions address the CEDI principles (Case Conceptualization, Ethical Considerations, Diversity Awareness/Reflection, and Intervention Planning and Evaluation), as well as any case-specific questions.

This clearly structured book serves as a useful resource for instructors looking to deepen discussion and offer alternatives to students’ ideas on how to approach certain cases. It will also be of interest to practitioners when approaching similar situations in their own work and looking for new pathways that they may not have considered.

Sarah L. Castillo, a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) on the Registry of Approved Mentors, has focused her career in both academic and applied practice settings. She earned her PhD from the University of Idaho in 2000 and has served on the executive board for the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP). She currently serves as the director of Sport and Performance Psychology programs at University of Western States, USA.

Chelsea Butters Wooding is an Assistant Professor in the Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology Program at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, USA. She is a CMPC through AASP and holds a PhD in Sport and Exercise Psychology from West Virginia University, along with an MA in Counseling from WVU, an MS in Kinesiology from California State University, Fullerton, and a BA in Psychology from California State University, Long Beach.

Douglas A. Barba is a Professor in the Psychology Department at National University, USA, where he serves as the Program Director for the BA in Sport Psychology and MA in Performance Psychology programs. Doug earned his PhD at the University of Florida and an MA in Psychology from the School of Human Behavior at United States International University in San Diego.

Stiliani "Ani" Chroni earned her MS from Springfield College, MA in 1994 and PhD from the University of Virginia in 1997 both focusing on sport psychology. She pursued a transnational dual career as an Academic and Applied Sport Psychology Practitioner. Currently, she lives and works in Norway as a Professor in Sport Psychology and Sports Coaching. In 2020 she established the Sport Coaching Research Group at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway and served as its first director until 2022.