Ethical Issues in Sport, Exercise & Performance Psychology

This book focuses on a multitude of unique ethical, legal, and related professional challenges faced by sport, exercise, and performance psychology practitioners. The book contains seventeen chapters organised into four sections: Ethical Practices; Specific Populations; Special Settings; Academic Issues. Students will be given a comprehensive look at the most up-to-date, critical issues facing sport psychology practitioners. A wide range of professionals in higher education, university counselling centres, sports medicine clinics, and in private practice will also find this book to be an informative personal resource.

Table of Contents:
Foreword; Some Impressions on Ethics in Sport & Exercise Psychology; The Law & Sport Psychology: When Doing What Is Right & Doing What Is Legal May Not Be the Same Thing; Ethical Issues in Youth Sport Consulting; Ethical Issues in Work With Collegiate Student-Athletes; Ethical Issues in Professional Sport; Five Ring Fever: Ethical Considerations When Consulting With Olympic Athletes; The Ethical Practice of Exercise Psychology; Ethics in Peak Performance Business Coaching; Sports Medicine: The Ethics of Working as Part of a University Medical Team; Ethical Challenges for Mental Skills Trainers Working With Soldiers in the United States Army; Ethical Issues in Consulting with Performing Artists; Ethical Issues Affecting the Use of Teletherapy in Sport & Exercise Psychology; Ethical Issues in Supervision: Client Welfare, Practitioner Development, & Professional Gatekeeping; Ethics & Teaching in Sport & Exercise Psychology; Ethical Considerations in Sport & Exercise Psychology Research; Ethics in Assessment & Testing in Sport & Exercise Psychology; Ethical Decision Making; Index.

About the Author :
Dr. Ed Etzel serves as a Professor in the Department of Sport Sciences within the WVU College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences. He teaches a variety of sport psychology courses at the graduate level (e.g., Counseling College Student-athletes, Psychological Aspects of Sport Injury, and Psychological Aspects of Performance Enhancement, Ethics and Professional Issues, sport psychology doctoral practicum, supervision) and undergraduate Psychological Aspects of Sport and Psychological Aspects of Sport and Psychological Aspects of Sport Injury. He currently serves as the psychologist for the West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. His duties include being a staff member of the WVU Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychiatric Services. He is the liaison between the center and the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. He is involved in the provision of individual and group counseling services for personal, career, and sport performance enhancement concerns and is the NCAA CHAMPS/Life Skills program coordinator at WVU. He is listed as a consultant on the U.S. Olympic Committee's Sport Psychology Registry. He serves as Chair of the American Psychological Association's Division 47 Education Committee and served as Chair of the Association of Applied Sport Psychology's Ethics Committee from 1998 to 2007. He is also a Fellow in the Association of Applied Sport Psychology. He resides in Morgantown with his wife Dr. Anne Cather. Jack C. Watson II, PhD, is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Sport Sciences at West Virginia University. His academic credentials include a bachelors degree in psychology from the University of Virginia, a masters degree in sport behavior from West Virginia University, a PhD, in sport psychology from Florida State University, and a post-doctoral respecialization in counseling psychology from Florida State University. His research interests include professional issues in sport psychology (i.e., ethics, supervision and mentoring), youth sport development, and anger and aggression in sport. A certified consultant with the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP), and a licensed psychologist in West Virginia, Dr. Watson has worked with athletes from a variety of sports and ability levels. He was a collegiate golfer at the University of Virginia and still plays competitive golf while coaching multiple youth baseball and basketball teams. Dr. Watson is the former chair of the Ethics Committee for AASP. He has published more than 35 articles, contributed chapters to several books, and has delivered more than 80 professional presentations nationally and internationally. Dr. Watson's first edited book, Ethical Issues in Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology, is a collaborative effort with his colleague at WVU, Dr. Edward Etzel.