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Top ten sport psychology moments of 2024

John Amaechi: 'Athletes are ripe for exploitation'

The first psychological skill I taught every athlete I worked with in the NBA

How to setup a mental health support system in a pro sport league

'A Swiss Army knife for players': inside the National Women's Soccer League mental health setup

How half-time team talks are changing

Inside the rise of unregulated mental health apps

News, views and vacancies

Does sport psychology have an access and inclusion problem?

'I had an opportunity to redefine what I do': the para rower and architect designing a route to the Paralympics and accessible sports facilities

'Coaching is more challenging than it's ever been'

Why are we failing to provide the right psychological support for young athletes?

'A lot of athletes have a skewed perception of what it is to be a person versus what it is to be a commodity'

Q&A and where to go for sport psychology news and views

'When you have 5 minutes and $50m on the line, 'it depends' doesn't work'

'Athletes don't have to be super competitive, super ruthless and win at all costs'

Sport and the 'Dark Triad': how does personality actually affect performance?

Embedding sport psychology across an elite European club (Part 2)

Exclusive: Dan Abrahams on Feyenoord, Arne Slot and how 'shared mental models' stand up to 70,000 fans (Part 1)

Karl Marius Aksum on transferring psychology theory from the classroom to the pitch

How do you psychologically prepare for the Olympics?

Racism in football: progress or platitudes?

Why psychologists should be involved in coach and player recruitment

Why are teams still failing to mentally prepare for penalties?

'It's messy': Alex Auerbach on sport psychology regulation, gaining coach buy-in and mental health support in the NBA

'We're throwing players into a stress cage without protecting them': why football needs to mentally prepare players for penalties

How do you psychologically prepare for a major tournament?

Snus in sport

'They have their own mental coaches': how Real Madrid's squad are psychologically supported

‘We’ve changed the club’: is it really possible to transform a Premier League team's culture?

'There are individuals who use it as an excuse': how are performance directors dealing with mental health issues?

'Players have built satellites': why football clubs might need organisational psychologists

The 'mental model' binding counter terrorism and football

Why wouldn't a Premier League club employ a sport psychologist?

Suicide rates in sport, a golf champion's reliance on religion and brain injuries

'Soft psychologists', concussion concerns and AI's brush with boxing

Q&A: how does sport psychology influence scheduling?

Is football shedding its 'culture of conservatism'?

Suffocated by stats

Body shaming in sport: how big a problem is it?

'The mental part is the greatest challenge': Deco on why psychology is paramount to player recruitment

Why isn't psychology part of football's future-gazing?

Why should sport psychology 'stay in its lane'?

Sport psychology news round up, 2024 events and Mind Room Q&A

From letters to voicenotes: how are top teams motivating and reassuring athletes?

The cost of a career in sport

What you can expect from Mind Room Membership

Football's psychology evolution is gathering pace despite 'culture of conservatism'

Unregulated psychologists putting athletes' mental health 'at risk'

Sport psychology deserves more attention: here's how you can help it get it

'They're unbelievably resilient': why psychology is key to Great Britain's women's hockey team