“…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.…”