The sport psychology concentration is available to students in any
one of the three GSAPP programs, clinical, school, and organizational,
as well as to Ph.D. clinical psychology students and qualified
individuals at the postdoctoral level.
Students who want to
concentrate part of their study in sport psychology may do so only
within the context of their overall program proposal in their
respective disciplines.
The sport psychology concentration has
been in operation since 2003 under the direction of its founder, Dr.
Charles Maher of the Department of Applied Psychology.
Its purpose is three-fold:
1. To educate and train GSAPP students and others, including
postdoctoral students, so that each one of them can be reliably judged
as having successfully engaged in systematic education and training in
sport psychology.
2. To assure that such individuals are
capable of practicing sport psychology by assisting them in creating
projects, dissertations, and supervised experiences that will help them
acquire particular knowledge, skills, and abilities for their
professional practices.
3. To generate new information
about the application of psychology to sport, particularly in the
service of the development and performance enhancement of athletes,
coaches, parents, administrators, and others.
