Training and Supervision in Sport and Exercise Psychology

This book presents choices and challenges for trainees and supervisors, such as training and supervision mixing the science of doing sport and psychology with the art of decision-making to deliver services to athletes.

Paul McCarthy, PhD leads the taught doctorate in sport and exercise psychology at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. He is a BPS chartered psychologist, HCPC registered sport and exercise psychologist and Senior Teaching Fellow. He developed the first taught doctorate in sport and exercise psychology in Scotland and the UK.

Sahen Gupta, PhD is a lecturer and practitioner in sport and exercise psychology at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He has published peer-reviewed papers in psychology and sport and exercise psychology in SCOPUS indexed journals, including in Frontiers in Psychology. He specialises in resilience, positive environments, integrative psychotherapy and youth sport environments.

Lindsey Burns, PhD is a lecturer in psychology at Herriot Watt University, UK. Lindsey is a chartered psychologist with the British Psychological Society and a HCPC practitioner health psychologist. She is a Member of the BPS Special Group for Coaching Psychology and has qualified with the Coaching Academy in both ’Personal’ and ’Corporate and Executive’ coaching.

Bryan McCann, PhD is a BPS chartered sport and exercise psychologist and HCPC practitioner psychologist. Bryan provides psychological support to a range of national, international and Olympic level athletes and teams in different sports, including football, golf, swimming, table tennis and skiing and provides consultancy for organisations such as the Scottish FA, The Camanachd Association, Scottish Swimming and Sport Scotland.