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Mental Health and the Olympic-Paralympic Games – Executive Summary

Dear ISSP Member: following our recent website resource on “Mental Health and the Olympic-Paralympic Games – Executive Summary”, we want to call your attention to a scholarly publication of this consensus in the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. The article, “Athlete Mental Health in the Olympic/Paralympic Quadrennium: A Multi-societal Consensus Statement”, can be accessed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1612197X.2020.1746379. These are two formal products of…

Call for 2017-2021 ISSP Awards Nominations

We are now calling for 2017-2021 ISSP Awards Nominations. The ISSP Awards are presented to outstanding scholars and practitioners in acknowledgement of their significant contributions to the area of sport and/or exercise psychology. The ISSP has four categories of awards, they are: The ISSP Distinguished International Sport Psychologist Award, The ISSP Honor Award, The ISSP Developing Scholar Award, and The…

Tribute to Aidan Moran

It is with deep regret that the international sport psychology community has lost a world leader in the area of cognitive sport psychology. Dr. Aidan Moran from Dublin University contributed as a tremendous scholar and person to our field at large. For those who were able to spend time with Aidan, he was insightful, creative, well spoken, and always humourous.…

ISSP-R

Dear ISSP Member,  “Given the mission of ISSP, the ISSP Accreditation committee is finalizing the process of establishing an internationally recognized consultant/practitioner registry that represents the minimum standard of sport psychology practice. It is envisioned that the ISSP-Registry (ISSP-R) will respond to the high international mobility of both sporting clients and consultants as well as increase the visibility and credibility…

President’s Message November 2019

As 2019 draws to a close, it’s time to reflect upon the first two years of this four-year term for the International Society of Sport Psychology. There is much to be enthusiastic about, and yet there is a strong and clear path that lies before us. Among the steps in the correct direction, the second call for ISSP Fellows has…

ISSP Workshops in Thessaloniki 2019

The first symposium entitled “The International Network of ISSP Members and Students” will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece on November 12, 2019. Seven members of ISSP Managing Council will l conduct three seminars for International Students in Sport and Exercise Psychology and will focus on ISSP-Registry, consulting with Olympic and Paralympic athletes, and quality research and writing for publication in sport and exercise psychology. This inaugural ISSP…