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The European Federation of Sport Psychology is a European federation of national organizations in the area of sport and exercise psychology. The organization is usually called FEPSAC, an acronym of its French name. [1] The organization was founded in 1968. FEPSAC promotes scientific, educational and professional efforts in Europe. [2]
The International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP) is an international and multidisciplinary organization of researchers, psychologists, educators, coaches, administrators, and national organizations in sport and exercise psychology. [1] The organization is founded in 1965.
Caroline Currid (born 1980/1981) [1] is an Irish sports psychologist who has worked as a performance coach [1] [2] with the Limerick senior hurling team since 2016. Before this, she had similar roles with the Tyrone senior football team, the Tipperary senior hurling team and the Dublin senior football team, teams based in three different provinces.
One of the major initiatives of the federation was the establishment of the EuroPsy or European Certificate in Psychology. [4] This qualification sets a common standard for education, professional training and competence for psychologists to practice independently across Europe.
Sports psychiatry is a medical specialty that aims to treat and prevent mental disorders in athletes and helps them use different techniques to enhance their performance. [1] First mentioned in literature in 1967, it is a developing area [ 2 ] that relies on other fields, like sports psychology .
The first sport psychology laboratory was founded by Dr. Carl Diem in Berlin, in the early 1920s. [7] The early years of sport psychology were also highlighted by the formation of the Deutsche Hochschule für Leibesübungen (College of Physical Education) in Berlin, Germany, by Robert Werner Schulte in 1920.
In sports, the yips are a sudden and unexplained loss of ability to execute certain skills in experienced athletes. Symptoms of the yips are losing fine motor skills and psychological issues that impact the muscle memory and decision-making of athletes, leaving them unable to perform basic skills of their sport.
Bruce Ogilvie was born in 1920 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.Ogilvie met his wife, Eva Diane, in 1938 and married her in 1943. He attended the University of San Francisco and studied psychology and also received his masters from Portland State.