Charlotte Chandler

I am Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Staffordshire University. I have a PhD from Liverpool John Moores University, which explored the personal qualities of effective sport psychologists and how they interact with their work within elite sport environments. Other particular interests within sport psychology include counselling approaches to practice, and organisational psychology in performance environments. I have taught across undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes and maintain a keen interest in developing our curriculum to best prepare our students for applied practice. I have also completed a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science (Psychology) and an MSc in Psychology of Sport, both at LJMU, and I am Fellow of the HEA.

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Professional sport environments and the sport psychologist
Professional sport has been described as “a high pressure environment where decisions are made quickly and may have both immediate and ongoing impact on performance” (Reid et al, 2004, p. 206). The culture and politics of an elite sport environment can make it a volatile and arduous one to work...
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Effective sport psychologists – who are they?
In addition to the standards and competencies that sport psychologists must demonstrate to achieve accreditation with the relevant governing bodies, effective sport psychologists have been well-documented within the literature as possessing certain skills and characteristics. For example, Weigand, Richardson and Weinberg (1999) found coaches and athletes valued sport psychologists who were...
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What can sport psychology practitioners learn from counselling psychology?
In recent years, the field of applied sport psychology has broadened to encompass not only the use of problem-solving approaches concerned with mental skills training, but also more humanistic, person-centred approaches that utilise skills grounded in counselling (Hack, 2005). Within the counselling psychology profession, the personal qualities of the practitioner,...