<i>The Sport Psychology Canvas</i>: Designing, adapting, and documenting Sport Psychology provisions in men’s football academies in England

In this paper, we aim to: (1) identify common contextual forces influencing sport psychology practice in men’s football academies in England, (2) classify common sport psychology departments, and (3) provide a research-informed tool for designing, adapting, and documenting sport psychology provisions called <i>The Sport Psychology Canvas.</i> The study involved 16 sport psychologists working in men’s football academies in England, comprising six women and ten men. Data collection consisted of three stages: two individual interviews with each participant and one round of two focus groups with ten participants split evenly in each group. Following each stage, data were analyzed through open coding, followed by grouping codes into concepts. The findings informed the development of the second interview and focus group guides. The findings are presented in three sections. The first section discusses two key forces shaping provisions, (i) Uncertainty for Players and Staff: How players, parents/carers, and staff navigate existential needs, leading to significant stress and anxiety, (ii) Pervasive Unrealistic Expectations: The impact of unrealistic expectations, often shaped by notions of objectivity and ideals from other sport sciences. Second, we offer an overview of common organizational structures in sport psychology departments, highlighting their strengths and limitations. Last, we introduce <i>The Sport Psychology Canvas</i>, a flexible template for designing, adapting, and documenting sport psychology programmes. This Canvas can guide practitioners or department heads in delivering high-quality provisions tailored to their specific context.

本研究旨在达成三项核心目标：(1) 明确影响英格兰男子足球青训学院运动心理学实践的常见情境性影响因素；(2) 对常见运动心理学部门进行分类；(3) 提供一款依托研究证据的工具，用于设计、调整与记录运动心理学服务，该工具名为《运动心理学画布（The Sport Psychology Canvas）》。
本研究共招募16名任职于英格兰男子足球青训学院的运动心理学家，其中女性6名、男性10名。数据采集分为三个阶段：对每名参与者开展两次一对一访谈，以及开展一轮两组焦点小组讨论（每组各10名参与者，人员分配均衡）。每一阶段结束后，均通过开放式编码对数据进行分析，随后将编码归类为概念范畴。后续的访谈与焦点小组讨论指南即基于上述分析结果进行优化完善。
研究结果分为三部分呈现。第一部分探讨了两项塑造服务供给的核心影响因素：(i) 运动员与工作人员的不确定性：运动员、家长/照料者及工作人员如何应对生存性需求，进而引发显著的压力与焦虑情绪；(ii) 普遍存在的不切实际预期：不切实际预期所带来的影响，此类预期通常源自其他运动科学领域的客观性理念与理想标准。第二部分概述了运动心理学部门常见的组织架构，并剖析了其优势与局限性。最后，本文介绍了《运动心理学画布（The Sport Psychology Canvas）》——一款用于设计、调整与记录运动心理学项目的灵活模板，可助力从业者或部门负责人为其特定场景打造高质量的定制化服务。

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该数据集聚焦于英格兰男子足球学院中的体育心理学实践，通过访谈和焦点小组研究识别了影响实践的关键上下文因素（如不确定性和不切实际的期望），并提出了一个名为“The Sport Psychology Canvas”的灵活工具，用于设计、调整和记录体育心理学项目。数据集包含研究论文、演示文稿和相关材料，发布于2025年，适用于医学、社会学和心理健康领域的研究与应用。