My Auberge Espagnole experience is rapidly coming to a close. This adventure has taken me through a big chunk of Europe and has taught me more than I ever thought possible. I’ve raved over this program before (as well as writing summary posts about many of our profs: Peter Schneider, Jean Côté, Anthony Watt, Martin …
Wrapping up my blog series summarizing guest lectures at Leipzig University, I present Professor Paul Wright from Northern Illinois University. He teaches in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education but, with a strong background in kinesiology and curriculum design, his focus is on creating and implementing physical activity programs promoting youth development and teaching …
People often ask me why I moved all the way to Europe for grad school (“But doesn’t Canada have any good programs?”) and my replies are never really sufficient, always boiling down to something of an, “I can’t possibly imagine myself doing anything else right now in the whole, wide world”… and no one likes …
Kimberley Dawson is a professor in the Kinesiology & Physical Education department at Wilfrid Laurier University, in Waterloo, Ontario (coincidentally down the street from where I completed my undergrad). She specializes in understanding what drives an individual to participate in exercise, and has done quite a bit of work in the field where psychology meets …
Robert Weinberg is a professor at Miami University in Ohio. He is perhaps best known for his authorship of the pivotal Foundations of Sport & Exercise Psychology text, something of a bible in our field. He is also a past president of AASP, a past editor of JASP, and a fellow of NAK. His sport …
This is the second part of Stephanie Hanrahan’s lecture sum-ups. Here, her “sport psychology as life skills” interventions are described. Stephanie’s real forté was in running activities, where she harnesses classic sport psychology techniques to improve the quality of life of marginalized youth. She ran us through her comprehensive 10-week intervention in just two days; …
Originally from the USA, Stephanie Hanrahan is an associate professor and the sport and exercise psychology program director at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She was a competitive volleyball player for close to twenty years before knee injuries caught up with her, forcing her to quit. She is an accomplished author, the most …
This is Part 2/2 of Judy Van Raalte’s lecture sum-ups. Academic subjects behind us, Judy turned to practical counselling advice for her final lecture. She set the groundwork by first allaying our worries about working with clinical cases like suicide or schizophrenia: the chances of running across an athlete with severe psychological problems is quite …
Judy Van Raalte is a sport psychology professor at Massachusetts’ Springfield College. She is also an avid tennis player — recently winning the American doubles championship in her group (left) — and an enthralling speaker full of wisdom and support for us as we begin our fledgling careers in performance psychology. From day one she …
Alan Smith is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Michigan State University, where he studies the link between youth sport involvement and their psychosocial functioning. He is best known for his work in peer relationships and in understanding their motivating effect in youth, currently working to develop strategies of dealing with ADHD through …
Originally from the UK, Martin Hagger is now a distinguished professor at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, where he just recently won an award for his outstanding research. His focus lies in studying people’s self-regulation processes and seeing how health professionals can harness these to change patients’ health-related behaviour. Martin is one of the most …
Anthony Watt is a senior lecturer at Victoria University’s College of Education in Melbourne, where he primarily develops assessment instruments and ties sport psychology principles to youth education programs… but his real forté is in imagery. So much so, in fact, that he literally wrote the book on the subject. His background is largely in …