ISSP Registry and ISSP Supervisor applications now open
Applications for the ISSP Registry re-opened on January 15 for the Established Practitioner route and the Emerging Practitioner route. Additionally, applications for ISSP Registry Supervisors are open for Established Supervisors only. Applications will be accepted until April 15, 2021. Please visit the ISSP Registry and ISSP-R Supervisors pages for more information.
Inaugural class of ISSP Registry members
ISSP congratulates the inaugural class of ISSP Registry applicants. The successful applicants have demonstrated an exceptional body of practical work, an exemplary practical philosophy to consultation, and an excellent understanding of professional ethics and cultural competence. For further information, please visit the ISSP Registry page from HERE.
ISSP Registry (ISSP-R): Practitioner and Supervisor
Applications are now open for established sport psychology practitioners
ISSP is pleased to announce that applications to the ISSP-Registry (ISSP-R) for [i] established practitioners will be re-opening and applications for emerging practitioners and [ii] ISSP-R Approved Supervisor (established supervisor) will be opening for the first time. Applications will open on Friday, January 15, 2021. Please refer to the ISSP-R section of the website for full details; however below is some of the key information
There are two routes to being accepted onto the ISSP-Registry – the Established Practitioner route and the Emerging Practitioner route. Presently, we are accepting applications for both the Established Practitioner and Emerging Practitioner routes in this round. Secondly, there are two routes to being accepted onto the ISSP-Registry as a Supervisor – the Established Supervisor route and the Emerging Supervisor route. Presently, we are accepting applications for the Established Supervisor only. The deadline for submission of all applications will be Thursday April 15, 2021. We appreciate that many practitioners who also have academic roles will be entering into both a busy and unusual period with student education and assessments, and therefore we want to offer several months to allow sufficient time for an application.
The Established Practitioner route to ISSP-R is for those well-established practitioners (i.e., greater than 8 years of consistent, independent consulting experience post-MSc degree qualification) to apply to the Registry in recognition of their longer standing work in the field. This route will be time-limited and is specifically for those who would consider themselves to be well-established, active professionals with extended amounts of consulting work in sport. We want to encourage these slightly more senior colleagues to become part of the ISSP-Registry and continue to serve as role models for the profession.
The Emerging Practitioner route to ISSP-R is for earlier-career practitioners looking to demonstrate their competence in the field. In addition to the minimum academic (i.e., BSc/BA, MSc) and supervised experience requirements, applicants will be required to engage and successfully pass three short ISSP-specific modules focused on cultural competence, ethics, and mental health. These modules will be offered in the summer of 2021 after your application has been assessed as successful, and will allow you to progress onto engagement and completion of the modules.
The Established Supervisor route to ISSP-R Supervisor is for those professional sport psychology practitioners interested in gaining ISSP-R supervisory status (e.g., appropriate education and preparation for supervisory role, currently holding nationally/regionally recognized status as a supervisor to apply in recognition of their special standing and credentials with regard to sport psychology supervisor role. It is hoped that the ISSP-R approved supervisor pool of individuals will in turn assist emerging professionals in gaining ISSP-R credentials in the near future.

ISSP Registry (ISSP-R): Practitioner and Supervisor
Applications will open on Friday, January 15, 2021.
The deadline for submission of all applications will be
Thursday April 15, 2021.
Important Disclaimer
Safeguarding Clients and the Profession: Professional liability insurance and criminal records checks
Purchasing and maintaining Professional Liability or Indemnity Insurance for a practitioner in one’s country to cover one’s work domestically, or abroad is viewed as an important professional responsibility by ISSP. However, we appreciate cultural differences and the role of any national standards/guidelines or norms for insurance in the country where the consultant resides. On this basis, we have not mandated evidence of a professional insurance policy as part of an ISSP-R application, but we encourage all potential employers and clients to ask practitioners about such insurance as a matter of due diligence.
Equally, the procurement of criminal records checks by employers or organisations as part of the process of ensuring the safeguarding and welfare of its athletes is an important step in practitioner recruitment. The protection of vulnerable clients in sport (both young athletes and adults) is critical to ISSP’s duty of care; however we appreciate that not all countries or organisations require or apply criminal records checks for employment of practitioners. In addition, if ISSP mandated evidence of a criminal record/government check to be submitted as part of an ISSP-R application, then it would be only current from the date of submission. Hence, we have not mandated evidence of such a check as part of an ISSP-R application, but we encourage all potential employers and organisations to consider such checks as part of their recruitment process.
MEMBERSHIP
The ISSP is the only worldwide organization of scholars explicitly concerned with sport psychology. Members of the Society include researchers, psychologists, educators, coaches, and administrators, as well as students and athletes interested in sport psychology.
Membership has many benefits, including an annual subscription to the IJSEP, access to ISSP’s awards and fellows, and a reduced fee for attending ISSP conferences.
WORLD CONGRESS
Next world congress: Taipei, September 2021.
The Future of Sport and Exercise Psychology: New Horizons beyond the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Pandemic World
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Spring 2021 ISSP President’s Message
Spring has arrived with considerable activity. People are being inoculated worldwide, albeit at varying speeds. The Olympics is progressing and several members in the ISSP, our Managing Council, and I, will be in attendance, supporting aspiring athletes during a highly complicated Olympic experience. Even broader, the world of sport and activity has continued to thrive, though quite differently when compared to pre-covid times.
This is an exciting year for the ISSP. We have a congress scheduled September 30 to October 04, 2021. The congress organizing committee, led by Dr. Yu-Kai Chang is working hard on the logistics of a hybrid offering. We are still uncertain what this Fall will look like in terms of physically traveling to Taipei. We understand that your plans are fluid in terms of form of attendance, whether in person or virtual. However, rest assured, this congress will go on, drawing upon both platforms to ensure we deliver a high-quality global congress as promised. The keynotes have all confirmed their attendance in one format or another. We will know more within the coming month, though some have already confirmed they wish to present from a distance, virtually. Some hope to be onsite, pending inoculations and entry from the host government. The abstract submission deadline is May 03, 2021, so please keep the date in mind when developing your submission(s). Notification from the organizing committee will then be the first week of June, 2021.
We have also been busy planning for our next ISSP election. There will be openings, and should you wish to run for a Managing Council spot, please contact Past President Dr. Gangyan Si at gangyans@hksi.ork.hk . There are candidates seeking re-election, progression to the executive, and reinstatement. These are all open and transparent processes within this society. One key point is that people seeking nomination require someone to nominate and someone to second from the ISSP active membership.
The International Journal of Sport and exercise Psychology is also ascending as a scientific and yet, practical outlet. We are gaining increasing numbers of publications from a vast number of countries on topics that span the field. Reflecting this growth in submission, we have a full compliment of section editors, several of whom are newcomers to the journal. We have also expanded our editorial board with a balance of experts recruited by our section editors. The growth in our editorial board will improve upon current efficiencies within manuscript oversight and also in terms of effective feedback. The IJSEP is also now actively supporting open science, where authors who wish to share their data, can do so. We leave this decision to each contributing authorship.
The ISSP Registry and Supervisor’s Calls are both open at present for new applicants to our registry, until April 15, 2021. We had a previous call with seventeen inductees from various countries, listed at the webpage focused on the ISSP-R. We are now expanding the process to established and general stream applicants to the ISSP-R. The ISSP-S (supervisor) designation is also open. The accreditation committee is actively welcoming candidates to apply. Please visit issponline.org for more information on this exciting step for the society and for you!
Rest assured the ISSP is working actively for you. New benefits will be announced shortly. Should you have any further questions, you can always write me directly at rschinke@laurentian.ca . Wishing you a safe Spring, 2021.
Robert Schinke
President of the International Society of Sport Psychology