Tuesday, January 12, 2010

STUDENT SPORT PSYCHOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES

The American Board of Sport Psychology is pleased to announce the availability of a limited number of tuition-based positions in its 5th ANNUAL SPRING/SUMMER:

Internship, Training and Visiting Fellowship programs in Applied Evidence-Based Sport Psychology

ABSP Summer programs continue to grow and be productive with participants being involved in groundbreaking research and applications in evidence-based applied athlete assessment and intervention. Participants were/will be included as co-authors in numerous papers that were/will be submitted for publication and in conjunction with the presentation of data and findings that were derived from summer long research that will appear in the book Evidence-Based Applied Sport Psychology: A Manual for Practitioners, Researchers and Students (Carlstedt RA [2010] NY:
Springer Publishing).

Selected individuals will be exposed to applied research and evidence-based approaches to athlete assessment and intervention and the opportunity to work (under supervision of Dr. Roland A.
Carlstedt) with athletes from various sports and organizations that we provide consulting services to. This is an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on assessment, intervention and research experience in settings that have a high degree of ecological validity. Hours can be accrued toward clinical supervision, applied or used for college credit and will count toward ABSP certification.

Venue: New York City (activities throughout greater New York City area); additional special weeks may be held in Boston as well

Population: Athletes from various sports and organizations

Dates: Starting in May and running through September (Summer long positions are available). One-Month minimum participation required (latest start time: August).

Hours per week- minimum of 20 hours of applied sport psychology activities per week

Activities:

1. Orientation/Overview of ABSP Evidence-based athlete assessment and intervention protocol (see ABSP website; link to Journal and Test Center pages)

2. Applied sport psychology/applied neuroscience and psychophysiology lab

3. Experiencing the ABSP Protocol first hand (taking the ABSP-BRC Internet-based test battery)

4. Analysis of your test results

5. In-the-field athlete assessment and intervention

6. Data-analysis

7. Applied Interventions/Supervising Athlete intervention

8. Participation in on-going research projects (longitudinal data acquisition, assessment and intervention on-going investigation).

9. Numerous other learning and training activities including lectures on components of the ABSP Evidence-Based Protocol

10. Ethical practice and marketing of sport psychology services

11. Working with Coaches


Undergraduates are eligible for the Intern-Research Assistant positions and graduates, graduate students, coaches and faculty/ administrators are eligible for the Fellowships.

CONTACT: rcarlstedt@americanboardofsportpsychology.org for an information package and application.

ABSP will be providing psychological performance analysis services involving all Major League Baseball teams in 2010 and are seeking student analysts.

CONTACT: rcarlstedt@americanboardofsportpsychology.org for more details


Roland A. Carlstedt, Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist***Licensed Applied Psychologist Board Certified Sport Psychologist (ABSP) Board Certified in Applied Clinical Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (BCIA)
Chairman: American Board of Sport Psychology Research Fellow in Applied Neuroscience: Brain Resource Company Clinical and Research Director: Integrative Psychological Services of NYC
Editor-in-Chief: Journal of the American Board of Sport Psychology

www.americanboardofsportpsychology.org

rcarlstedt@americanboardofsportpsychology.org

Tel. 917-680-3994

YOU TUBE: ABSP: Intern and Visiting Fellowship Program

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ZskvC7cto

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