This paper is a comprehensive update of the International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP) Position Stand on career development and transitions of athletes issued a decade ago (Stambulova, Alfermann, Statler, & Côté, 2009, ISSP Position Stand: Career development and transitions of athletes. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 7, 395-412.). A need for updating the 2009 Position Stand has grown out of the increasing inconsistency between its popularity and high citation, on the one hand, and its dated content that inadequately reflects the current status of athlete career research and assistance, on the other. During the last decade, sport psychology career scholars worked on structuring the athlete career knowledge and consolidating it into the athlete career (sport psychology) discourse (ACD). The aims of this paper are to: (1) update the decade-long evolution and describe the current structure of the ACD, (2) introduce recent trends in career development and transition research, (3) discuss emerging trends in career assistance, and (4) summarise in a set of postulates the current status and future challenges of the ACD.

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In today’s uncertain, fluid job market, transnational mobility has intensified. Though the concept of cultural transition is increasingly used in sport and career research, insight into the processes of how individuals produce their own development through work and relationships in shifting cultural patterns of meaning remains limited. The transnational industry of sports, in which athletes’ psychological adjustment to cultural transitions has implications for both performance and meaningful life, serves as a backdrop for this article. This study applied the life story method to interviews with 15 professional and semi-professional athletes, focusing particularly on the cultural transition aspect of their transnational athletic careers. The aims of the study were to identify the developmental tasks of cultural transitions and strategies/mechanisms through which cultural transitions were enacted. Three underlying mechanisms of the transition process that assisted athletic career adaptability were social repositioning, negotiation of cultural practices, and meaning reconstruction. Based on the data analyses, a temporal model of cultural transition is proposed. The results of this research provide professionals working in the fields of career counseling and migrant support with a content framework for enhancing migrant workers’ adaptabilities and psychological wellbeing.

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With rising globalization and professionalization within sports, athletes are increasingly migrating across national borders to take up work, and their athletic and nonathletic development is thereby shaped and lived in different countries. Through the analysis of interviews with female professional transnational athletes, this article contextualizes and discusses arguments for developing an interdis ciplinary framework to account for lived experiences of the close intertwining between transnational migration and career development in professional sports. By combining our psychological and sociological perspectives, we identify three normative career transitions for transnational athletes. First of all, transnational recruitment that draws on social networks as well as individual agency. Secondly, establishment as a transnational athlete that is connected to cultural and psycho logical adaptation as well as development of transnational belonging, and thirdly, professional athletic career termination that for transnational athletes is connected to a (re)constitution of one's transnational network and sense of belonging. Avec l'augmentation de la globalisation et de la professionnalisation en sport, de plus en plus d'athletes depassent leurs frontieres nationales pour le travail, et leur developpement sportif et non-sportif est done influence par differents pays et vecu dans differents pays. A travers I'analyse d'entrevues avec des athletes professionnelles transnationales, cet article met en contexte et discute les arguments en faveur du developpement d'un cadre interdisciplinaire pour rendre compte des experiences vecues du melange entre migration transnationale et developpement de carriere dans les sports professionnels. En combinant nos perspectives psychologiques et sociologiques, nous identifions trois transitions de carriere normatives pour les

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Research question. The last decade has seen an increase in empirical research 2 associated with dual careers in sport, with particular focus on understanding and developing 3 individual characteristics which are important to ensure success in sports and education or a 4 vocation. More recent work has, however, also identified the importance of environmental 5 factors in ensuring successful dual career outcomes. The aims of the current study, therefore, 6 are to: (a) identify and classify the different types of dual career development environments 7 (DCDEs) of countries in Europe; and (b) provide outlines of the key features of the environments identified. 9Research methods. To achieve these aims, this study adopted the procedure of initial documentary analysis, interviews with knowledgeable stakeholders, cross case analysis, and expert interviews and researcher discussions across seven countries in Europe (Belgium,