トップアスリートへのコンサルテーション：スポーツ心理学者の役割

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The current paper is organized with three major themes including 1) introducing sport psychology and performance psychology training, 2) introducing competence for professional psychology, and 3) summarizing stress and resilience research in sport psychology following by suggestions for future performance psychology consultation. Consultation work based on sport science, especially sport psychology and related disciplines have been implemented in sport domain. However, it has been unclear who could be qualify as consultants training athlete, coach, and organization. Performance psychology professionals are required to make sure fulfilling the competency. Applying scientific knowledge and methods to the consultation is a one of the competencies. Understanding the research trend of stress and resilience should be able to help consultants delivering effective service to athlete and coach. Based on recent research, delivering programs to develop individual resilience and team resilience should be able to help athletes, teams, and coaches to deal with performance related and organizational related stress rather than provide them coping strategies. Delivering a meaningful and fruitful program will empower athlete, team, and coach for positive change which may lead to social change. Importance of applying a good theory to practice is suggested.