BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although sport psychology literature focuses on psychological skills use to promote proficiency, it is still puzzling that current research has focused on psychological skills use only during competition. There remains a scarcity of empirical evidence to support the timing, and content of psychological skill application during the time preceding competition. This study ex...

perhaps before establishing the psychology and counseling organization of iran by the parliament in 2003, the biggest threat to this discipline was the practice of unprofessional people. on this basis, the biggest opportunity for this discipline was establishing this organization by the parliament as the supreme legislative body in the country. on 14/11/2012 counseling centers regulation was in...

Objective: In this empirical study, the authors examined (1) actual use of counseling for emotional problems and (2) the assumptions that ethnicity, sex, social class, and psychological distress are associated with disparities in use of counseling. Participants: Participants were 1,773 diverse undergraduate students at an urban university. Methods: The authors collected data via self-administer...

Empathy and attributions of client responsibility for the cause of and solution to a problem were examined for 247 psychologists who were identified as having low, moderate, and high color-blind racial attitudes. Participants responded to 1 of 4 vignettes that controlled for client race (i.e., African American, European American) and client attributions regarding the cause (i.e., depression, di...

To construct a model in which competencies expected from female high school students are outlined, from among all experts in psychology, education, Islamic studies, and Islamic counseling working in Tehran high schools, 18 were  initially and purposefully selected and then interviewed extensively on the topic. The sampling and interviewing continued to the point of saturation. Content analyses ...

Understanding the attitudes of athletes towards sports psychology is crucially important because if psychologists understand barriers and hesitations psychological counseling, they can intervene educationally to foster a mindset belief. In current study, we aim examine existing differences between high-performance non-professional (junior) regarding counseling. The SPAR (Sport Psychology Attitu...

In India, structured continuous professional development modules are not available to update the knowledge and skills of the practicing community pharmacists. A prospective study was designed to develop, validate and implement continuous professional development modules and to assess the impact of training programme on knowledge and skills of community pharmacists. Modules were developed by ref...