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INTRODUCTION

There has been ongoing discussion for more than 50 years of science and practice reciprocity in sport psychology. Rainer Martens (1979, 1987) was among the first scholars to propose that sport psychology consultants must engage in practical research to advance interventional approach, contributing to evidence-based practice. Exemplifying this perspective, Terry Orlick and his colleagues (e.g., Sinclair & Orlick, 1993; Werthner & Orlick, 1986) were among the pioneers to effectively explain why the continuing transitional process away from sport, often a normative transition, continues to be fraught with difficulty and maladaptation despite its inevitability, to improve their consultancy with late career athletes. Most recently, Schinke and Colleagues developed an International Society of Sport Psychology Position Stand to reveal the increasing number of identified characteristics of scientist practitioners (see Schinke et al., 2024a, 2024b).
This presentation will unmask 20 years of a science and practice reciprocal journey that has contributed to the understanding of cultural sport psychology (see Schinke & Hanrahan, 2009), the cultural transitions of Indigenous (Schinke et al., 2006; see also Blodgett et al., 2013), immigrant (Schinke et al., 2013, 2016), and refugee athletes (Giffin et al., 2023, 2024), as well as the unpacking of clients’ identities (Schinke et al., 2017), all derived by the presenter to augment the healthier onboarding and retention of high-performance athletes in elite amateur and professional sport. To strengthen these understandings and augment interventions with clients, a vast number of ecologically sound, though innovative methodologies and methods (Schinke et al., 2024) have been developed to foster rich knowledge, science, improve intervention, and support athletes’ pursuits concurrently. Through an unfolding and continuously evolving approach to enquiry, the presenter will propose ideas of how to improve performance contexts, develop culturally safe environments, and augment holistic mental health, while also advancing emerging methodological strategies. Suggestions will be proposed of how to become one’s own, authentic version of a scientist practitioner when working within and across nations. Moreover, emerging approaches to ontology will be considered to unmask cultural values and ensure a reasonable representation of ideas to further dialog.

LITERATURE

Blodgett, A. T., Coholic, D., Schinke, R. J., McGannon, K. R., Peltier, D., & Pheasant, C. (2013). Moving beyond words: Exploring the use of an arts based method in Aboriginal community sport research. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 5, 312–331.

Giffin, C., Peterson, B., Schinke, R. J., Li, Y., & Kao, S. (2023). Developing and implementing a constellation mentoring program with two interuniversity soccer teams. Journal of Sports Psychology in Action, 14(3), 181–192.

Giffin, C. E., Schinke, R. J., Latimer, K., Joar, L., Hazboun, S., Li, Y., & Zhou, L. (2024). Meaning, trust, and belonging: Exploring the factors that foster elite forced migrant athletes’ growth. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 72, 102591.

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Martens, R. (1987). Science, knowledge, and sport psychology. The Sport Psychologist, 1(1), 29–55.

Schinke, R. J., Blodgett, A. T., McGannon, K. R., & Ge, Y. (2016). Finding one’s footing on foreign soil: Qualitative composite vignettes of elite athlete acculturation. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 25, 36 43. dvs Band 304 © Edition Czwalina 25

Schinke, R. J., Eys, M. A., Danielson, R., Michel, G., Peltier, D., Enosse, L., et al. (2006). Cultural social support for Canadian Aboriginal elite athletes during their sport development. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 37, 1–19.

Schinke, R. J., & Hanrahan, S. J. (2009). Cultural sport psychology. Human Kinetics.

Schinke, R. J., Henriksen, K., Moore, Z. E., Stambulova, N., Bartley, J., Cosh, S., Wagstaff, C. R. D., Quartiroli, A., Wylleman, P., Maher, C. A., Zhang, L. Si, G., Kentta, G., Zhang, C.-Q., Li, Y., Kuettel, A., Brandao, R., & Wong, R. (2024a). International society of sport psychology position stand: Elite athlete mental health revisited. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 22(4), 775–801.

Schinke, R., Wylleman, P., Henriksen, K., Si, G., Wagstaff, C. R. D., Zhang, L., Tshepang, T., Noce, F., & Li, Y. (2024). International Society of Sport Psychology position stand: Scientist practitioners. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 22(1), 1–23.

Schinke, R. J., McGannon, K. R., Battochio, R. C., & Wells, G. (2013). Acculturation in elite sport: A thematic analysis of immigrant elite athletes and coaches. Journal of Sports Sciences, 31, 1676–1686.

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