The Psychological Practitioner as a Teacher: A Theoretical-Historical and Practical Review

New Roles for Sport Psychologists: Teaching Life Skills Through Sport to At-Risk Youth

“…Through his experiences and the experiences of colleagues, he realized that the strategies used by sport psychologists had value in other life domains, especially with individuals for whom sport was a major influence in forming their identity. Moreover, he began to realize that the intervention approaches paralleled the psychoeducational approaches adopted by some counseling psychologists (Authier et al, 1975) and his own Life Development Internention framework (Danish et al, 1993). As a result of these experiences, the Center began to use sport as a model for understanding how to teach life skills.…”

Filial Therapy with Native Americans on the Flathead Reservation

“…Parent training programs that utilize proven counseling methods give parents the opportunity to become effective agents of change. By utilizing the emotional bond which naturally exists between the parent and child, professionals can further empower parents by teaching them basic psychotherapeutic techniques (Authier, Gustafson, B. Guerney, & Kasdorf, 1975). Combining a support group format with didactic instruction provides a 9 became a state and even sent 40 Indian students to college in the "states"-on scholarship (Noley, 1992).…”

A psychoeducational model of counseling

“…The past ten years have been witness to a growing interest in psychoeducational approaches to counseling as alternatives to individualized intervention practices (Authier, Gustafson, Guerney and Kasdorf, 1975;Mosher and Sprinthall, 1971)_ Generally, the psychoeducational model views the counselor as an instructor and counseling as accommodating to group as well as individual-based contexts. This theoretical shift allows the counselor to consider aspects of "therapy' analogous to instructional situations and creates the opportunity for using an established, empirical research methodology.…”