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University and College Counselors as Athletic Team Consultants: Using a Structural Family Therapy Model
✍ Scribed by Jason A. Parcover; Jennifer Mettrick; Cynthia A. D. Parcover; Pamela Griffin-Smith
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 150 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1099-0399
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✦ Synopsis
Increasingly, university and college counselors are sought out by their institution's sports coaches for assistance in achieving team goals. Traditional sport psychology models that have the individual athlete as their primary focus are insufficient frameworks for team‐level consultations. The authors believe that systemic approaches may provide an effective alternative. In this article, the authors offer and illustrate S. Minuchin's (1974) Structural Family Therapy as a heuristic model for conceptualizing and intervening with athletic teams.